About Red Nichols
Ernest Loring "Red" Nichols was an American jazz cornetist, composer, and jazz bandleader. He was one of the most prolific and influential jazz musicians in the late 1920s and early 1930s, appearing on over 4,000 recordings. In 1959, a biopic was made of his life and career, The Five Pennies, starring Danny Kaye. Young Nichols heard the early recordings of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band and later those of Bix Beiderbecke, and these had a strong influence on him. Before signing with Brunswick, Nichols and Mole recorded for Pathé-Perfect under the name the Red Heads. In 1926, Mole and he began recording with a variety of bands as Red Nichols and His Five Pennies.
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