Red Nichols and his Five Pennies [motion picture] / [All Scope Pictures?] 1959.

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Red Nichols and his Five Pennies [motion picture] / [All Scope Pictures?] 1959.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173697811

Jazz musician Red Nichols is shown performing his best known melodies at home with family, at a recording session, and performing in a restaurant. Produced to promote Nichols' tour of the Soviet Union and eastern Europe.

1 film reel of 1 (540 ft.) : sd., b&w ; 16 mm. print.

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Nichols, Red

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Ernest F. Loring "Red" Nichols (1905-1965) had a long and productive career as a cornetist, bandleader and recording artist. He was born on May 8, 1905, in Ogden, Utah. He studied music with his father (a professor of music at Weber College) and was performing solo cornet by the age of six. By 1922, he was performing professionally with the Syncopating Five, and soon thereafter established a reputation as a studio musician in New York City. By 1926 Nichols and the small ...