Herbie Nichols Transcriptions

Birth name: Herbie Nichols or Herbert Horatio Nichols
Born: January 3, 1919, San Juan Hill, Manhattan, New York, U.S.
Died: April 12, 1963 (aged 44), New York, U.S.

Herbert Nichols was an American jazz pianist and composer who wrote the jazz standard "Lady Sings the Blues". Obscure during his lifetime, he is now highly regarded by many musicians and critics. During much of his career, he took work as a Dixieland musician while also pursuing the more adventurous kind of jazz he preferred. He is best known today for music that combines bop, Dixieland, and music from the Caribbean with harmonies from Erik Satie, Béla Bartók and other modernist composers.