Keith Nichols
| Keith Nichols | |
|---|---|
| Born | 13 February 1945 |
| Origin | Ilford, Essex, UK |
| Genres | Jazz |
| Occupation(s) | Musician |
| Instruments | piano, trombone, reeds, accordion |
| Labels | Stomp Off |
| Associated acts | Digby Fairweather, Mike Daniels |
Keith Nichols (born 13 February 1945) is a British jazz multi-instrumentalist and arranger, a player of the piano, trombone, reeds, and accordion.
Born in Ilford, Essex, UK, Nichols was a child actor and an award-winning accordionist in his youth. He tends to play mostly ragtime tunes, gaining notoriety in the 1970s in London when forming the band New Sedalia. Nichols also formed the Ragtime Orchestra in the mid-1970s along with Mo Morris, Richard Warner and Paul Nossiter. Nichols also recorded and gigged with Bing Crosby, and Dick Sudhalter during this period.
Nichols was also a frequent sideman for the EMI record label and an arranger for the New York Jazz Repertory Company, Dick Hyman and the Pasadena Roof Orchestra. In 1978 he helped lead the Midnite Follies Orchestra with Alan Cohen. Other artists Nichols has worked with include Digby Fairweather, Harry Gold, Richard Pite and .
Dreamland Syncopators
Julian Vincent and Keith Nichols
Keith Nichols' Cotton Club Gang and Janice Day with Guy Barker
Keith Nichols and the Cotton Club Orchestra
Keith Nichols' Little Devils
Keith Nichols and the Blue Devils
Keith Nichols' Earthbound Spirits
Keith Nichols' Collegians
Mike Lovell and Keith Nichols
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