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Red Nichols (Ernest Loring Nichols) was born on 8 May, 1905 in Ogden, Utah, United States, is an American jazz musician. Discover Red Nichols's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 60 years old?

Popular As Ernest Loring Nichols
Occupation Musician, bandleader, composer
Age 60 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 8 May 1905
Birthday 8 May
Birthplace Ogden, Utah, United States
Date of death 28 June, 1965
Died Place Las Vegas, Nevada
Nationality UT

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His wife is Willa Stutsman (? - 28 June 1965) ( his death) ( 1 child)

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1905

Ernest Loring "Red" Nichols (May 8, 1905 – June 28, 1965) was an American jazz cornetist, composer, and jazz bandleader.

Nichols was born in Ogden, Utah, United States.

His father was a college music professor, and Nichols was something of a child prodigy, playing difficult set pieces for his father's brass band by the age of 12.

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.

His style became polished, clean, and incisive.

1920

In the early 1920s, Nichols moved to the Midwest and joined a band called the Syncopating Seven.

His composition "Nervous Charlie Stomp" was recorded by one of the top jazz bands of the 1920s, Fletcher Henderson's orchestra, and released as a 78 single.

In the next decade, more structured swing eclipsed the improvisational hot jazz Nichols loved to play.

1923

When that band broke up, he joined the Johnny Johnson Orchestra and went with it to New York City in 1923.

In New York, he met trombonist Miff Mole, and the two were inseparable for the next decade.

Before signing with Brunswick, Nichols and Mole recorded for Pathé-Perfect under the name the Red Heads.

Nichols could read music and easily gained studio work.

1926

In 1926, Mole and he began recording with a variety of bands as Red Nichols and His Five Pennies.

Few of these groups were quintets; the name was a pun on "nickel".

With the Five Pennies, he recorded more than 100 sides for Brunswick.

He also recorded as the Arkansas Travelers, the California Red Heads, the Louisiana Rhythm Kings, the Charleston Chasers, Red and Miff's Stompers, and Miff Mole and His Little Molers.

During some weeks in this period, Nichols and his bands were recording 10 to 12 two-sided records.

Nichols' band started with Mole on trombone and Jimmy Dorsey on alto saxophone and clarinet.

Other musicians in his bands in the following decade included Benny Goodman (clarinet), Glenn Miller (trombone), Jack Teagarden (trombone), Pee Wee Russell (clarinet), Joe Venuti (violin), Eddie Lang (banjo and guitar), and Gene Krupa (drums).

The Five Pennies' version of "Ida, Sweet as Apple Cider" was a surprise hit record.

It sold over a million copies and was awarded a gold disc by the Recording Industry Association of America.

Other labels Nichols recorded for included Edison 1926, Victor 1927, 1928, 1930, 1931 (individual sessions), Bluebird 1934, 1939, back to Brunswick for a session in 1934, Variety 1937, and OKeh in 1940.

Nichols survived the Great Depression by playing in show bands and pit orchestras.

He led Bob Hope's orchestra for a while, moving to California.

Nichols married Willa Stutsman, a "stunning" George White's Scandals dancer, and they had a daughter.

1932

He tried to follow the changes and formed a swing band, but his recording career seemed to stall in 1932.

Music critic Michael Brooks wrote,

What went wrong?

Part of it was too much, too soon.

Much of his vast recorded output was released in Europe, where he was regarded by early jazz critics as the equal, if not the superior, of Louis Armstrong and Bix Beiderbecke.

People who make fools of themselves usually find a scapegoat, and when the critics were exposed to the music of Duke Ellington, Benny Carter, Coleman Hawkins, and others, they turned on Nichols and savaged him, trashing him as unfairly as they had revered him.

Nichols' chief fault was an overly stiff, academic approach to jazz trumpet, but he did recognize merit as far as other jazz musicians were concerned and made some wonderful small-group recordings.

1942

In 1942, their daughter contracted polio, which was misdiagnosed at first as spinal meningitis, and Nichols left Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra to work in the wartime shipyards.

On May 2, 1942, Nichols left his band to take an army commission after completing an engagement at Lantz's Merry-Go-Round in Dayton, Ohio.

Drawn back to music after the war, Nichols formed another Five Pennies band and began playing in small clubs in Los Angeles.

Club dates turned into performances at bigger venues, such as the Zebra Room, the Tudor Room of the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, and the Huntington-Sheraton Hotel in Pasadena, California.

He toured Europe as a goodwill ambassador for the State Department.

1950

Nichols and his band performed in the 1950 film Quicksand starring Mickey Rooney.

1956

In 1956, he was the subject of an episode of the television program This Is Your Life in which he reunited with Miff Mole, Phil Harris, and Jimmy Dorsey, who praised Nichols as a bandleader who ensured everyone was paid.

1965

In 1965, Nichols took his Five Pennies band to the Mint Hotel in Las Vegas.