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One of jazz's most tragically overlooked geniuses, Herbie Nichols was a highly original piano stylist and a composer of tremendous imagination and eclecticism. He wasn't known widely enough to exert much influence in either department, but his music eventually attracted a rabid cult following, though not quite the wide exposure it deserved.
Nichols was born January 3, 1919, in New York and began playing piano at age nine, later studying at C.C.N.Y. After serving in World War II, Nichols played with a number of different groups and was in on the ground floor of the bebop scene. However, to pay the bills he later focused on Dixieland ensembles; his own music -- a blend of Dixieland, swing, West Indian folk, Monk-like angularity, European classical harmonies via Satie and Bartók, and unorthodox structures -- was simply too unclassifiable and complex to make much sense to jazz audiences of the time. Mary Lou Williams was the first to record a Nichols composition -- "Stennell," retitled "Opus Z," in 1951; yet aside from the song he wrote for Billie Holiday, "Lady Sings the Blues," none of Nichols' work got enough attention to really catch on.
He signed with Blue Note and recorded three brilliant piano trio albums from 1955-1956, adding another one for Bethlehem in late 1957. Nichols languished in obscurity after those sessions, though; sadly, just when he was beginning to find a following among several of the new thing's adventurous, up-and-coming stars, he was stricken with leukemia and died on April 12, 1963. In the years that followed, Nichols became a favorite composer in avant-garde circles, with tributes to his sorely neglected legacy coming from artists like Misha Mengelberg and Roswell Rudd. He also inspired a repertory group, called the Herbie Nichols Project, and most of his recordings were reissued on CD.
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The Complete Blue Note Recordings Of Herbie Nichols (3 CD set)
Jazz - Blue Note Records 発売日 1997/01/01
Qobuz厳選のディスコグラフィ16-Bit CD音質 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
The Prophetic Herbie Nichols Vol. 1 (Audio)
Jazz - Blue Note Records 発売日 1955/01/01
16-Bit CD音質 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
The Prophetic Herbie Nichols Vol. 2 (Audio)
Jazz - Blue Note Records 発売日 1955/01/01
16-Bit CD音質 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Love, Gloom, Cash, Love (Original Recording Remastered 2013)
Jazz - Bethlehem Records 発売日 1958/01/01
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The Prophetic Herbie Nichols, Volume 1
Bebop - Music Manager 発売日 1955/01/01
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The Complete Prophetic Herbie Nichols (Remastered Edition)
Jazz - jjjedizionimusicali 発売日 2022/02/09
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Herbie Nichols: The Complete Blue Note Recordings, Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3
Jazz - Universe Remasterings 発売日 1997/10/21
16-Bit CD音質 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
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Herbie Nichols: Love, Gloom, Cash, Love
Jazz - Blue Velvet 発売日 1958/01/01
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