HERBIE NICHOLS A Jazzist's Life by Mark Miller PAPERBACK BOOK

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HERBIE NICHOLS
A Jazzist's Life
by Mark Miller
Used paperback book.
The Mercury Press. ISBN: 978-1-55128-146-9. Printed in Canada. COVER & PAGES: VG++ excellent used condition paperback book, some mild shelf wear.
Approximate Size:  8 1/2"  x  6"
Number of pages: 224
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At first, Herbie Nichols wanted to be a Prokofiev. When classical training proved beyond his means as a young pianist in Harlem, he decided instead to become an Ellington. In truth, he became a Nichols -- by his own description a "jazzist" and by any other name a singular figure on the New York jazz scene of the 1950s. He worked in dixieland bands and Greenwich Village cabarets in order to survive while he composed and all too infrequently recorded music whose originality, modernity and humour -- together with his own probity, intellectual curiosity and restless creativity -- set him apart from his contemporaries. Largely neglected during his short life but increasingly celebrated in the years since, Nichols is now honoured with this sympathetic and engaging biography.
Mark Miller
has been a writer -- critic, historian, encyclopedist -- and photographer in the field of music, specifically jazz, for more than 35 years. He is the author of nine books, including
Cool Blues: Charlie Parker in Canada, 1953 (1989), The Miller Companion to Jazz in Canada (2001), Some Hustling This: Taking Jazz to the World, 1914-1929 (2005)
and
High Hat, Trumpet and Rhythm: The Life and Music of Valaida Snow (2007)
. He served as the jazz critic for The Globe and Mail in Toronto from 1978 to 2005 and has written for several popular and scholarly publications internationally.
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