Red Nichols & His Five Pennies's lyrics & chords

Ernest Loring "Red" Nichols (May 8, 1905 – June 28, 1965) was an American jazz cornettist, composer, and jazz bandleader. Over his long career, Nichols recorded in a wide variety of musical styles, and critic Steve Leggett describes him as "an expert cornet player, a solid improviser, and apparently a workaholic, since he is rumored to have appeared on over 4,000 recordings during the 1920s alone." Early life and career Red Nichols is a name which comes to us from the jazz of the 1920s, a time when Nichols was a fecund recording artist. Bu...read more