Herbie Nichols

Herbie Nichols (born January 3, 1919, New York City, New York, U.S.—died April 12, 1963, New York City) was an American jazz pianist and composer whose advanced bop-era concepts of rhythm, harmony, and form predicted aspects of free jazz. Nichols attended the City College of New York and served in the U.S. Army in 1941–43. He participated in the Harlem sessions that led to the development of bop, and Billie Holiday wrote lyrics to his...