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Ernest Loring "Red" Nichols (May 8, 1905 – June 28, 1965) was an American jazz cornetist, composer, and jazz bandleader.
Red Nichols is known as a talented cornet player who came to New York City as a musical prodigy at the age of 12 and started from nothing in his small hometown of Ogden before founding the group Red Nichols and His Five Pennies, which would become his success.
Red Nichols is described by critic Steve Leggett as "an expert horn player, a solid improviser, and a workaholic, having participated in 4,000 recordings in the 1920s alone.
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