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Active

1920s - 1960s

Born

May 8, 1905 in Ogden, UT

Died

June 28, 1965 in Las Vegas, NV

Genre

Jazz

Styles

Dixieland Early Jazz Film Score Swing

Also Known As

Ernest Loring Nichols

Ernest Loring Nichols

Member Of

California Ramblers

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Red Nichols

Biography by Scott Yanow

Early jazz cornetist whose expert improvising appears on hundreds of sessions from the 1920s and early '30s.
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