More than Five Pennies - Red Nichols Big Bands.
Loring ‘Red’ Nichols was a fine brass musician and one of the most recorded. Premier Nichols expert Mike Davis leads this session covering his larger bands of variable size.
Mike Davis, Malo Mazurie, Jon-Erik Kellso (trumpets); Christoph Hermann, Alistair Allan (trombones); Claus Jacobi, Michael McQuaid, David Horniblow, Jean-François Bonnel (reeds); Emma Fisk (violin); Colin Good (piano); Henri Lemaire (banjo/guitar); Malcolm Sked (sousa, string bass); Josh Duffee (drums) Mauro Porro & Mike Davies (vocal duos).
Programme notes courtesy of Brian Goggin, editor of VJM magazine. (2023 will mark 70 years of this vintage jazz record trading magazine).