Reggie Nicholson
Reginald "Reggie" Nicholson is an American jazz drummer.
Nicholson took a bachelor's degree in percussion performance at Chicago State University and became a member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians in 1979, working early in his career with Ed Wilkerson. In the 1980s he played with Amina Claudine Myers, Henry Threadgill, and Ernest Dawkins; he relocated to New York City in 1988 but continued his associations with Threadgill and Dawkins there. For much of the 1990s he worked with Myra Melford, and also worked in that decade with Muhal Richard Abrams, Michael Marcus, Roy Campbell, Wilber Morris, Don Pullen, Billy Bang, Charles Gayle, Leroy Jenkins, Thomas Chapin, Reuben Wilson, and Jim Nolet.
Discography
As leader/co-leader
- ...You See What We're Sayin'? BMN Trio: with Thomas Borgmann and Wilber Morris
- Drum String Thing with Wilber Morris
- Unnecessary Noise Allowed as The Reggie Nicholson Concept
- Timbre Suite with Percussion Concept
- Live at Tunnel BMN Trio with Thomas Borgmann and Wilber Morris
- Nasty & Sweet with Thomas Borgmann and Wilber Morris
As sideman
With Muhal Richard AbramsWith Anthony Braxton
- Trillium R
With Thomas Chapin
- You Don't Know Me
- Never Let Me Go: Quartets '95 & '96
- Re-entry
- Always Born
- Never No More
With Myra Melford
- Jump
- Now & Now
- Alive in the House of Saints
- Even the Sounds Shine
- Testament: A Conduction Collection - Conduction 38: In Freud's Garden / Conduction 39: Thread Waxing Space / Conduction 40: Thread Waxing Space
- Jumping in the Sugar Bowl
- Country Girl
- Amina
- In Touch
- Women in Motion
- After the Dawn Has Risen
- Chicago Now Vol. 1
- Chicago Now Vol. 2
- Birth of a Notion
- Talking Horns with Hamiet Bluiett and Oliver Lake
With Variable Density Sound Orchestra
- Evolving Strategies
- Light on the Path
- ''Die Kleine Trompete / The Little Trumpet''