All About Jazz is celebrating Herbie Nichols' birthday today!
Herbie Nichols
JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY
Herbie Nichols
Herbie Nichols is a perennially neglected jazz pianist and composer. He recorded less than half of his 170 compositions on three classic trio albums for Blue Note and one for Bethlehem before dying of leukemia at the age of 43 in 1963... more