Love Is Proximity

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Total Tracks: 10   Total Length: 63:44

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House Party Starting: Playing Herbie Nichols
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House Party Starting: Playing Herbie Nichols

By Kevin Whitehead, eMusic Contributor

Ask a jazz fan about Herbie Nichols, and the reaction is likely to be either, "He's a genius," or "Who?" The pianist and composer is the paradigm of a genius neglected in his own time. Nichols's classic mid-'50s sides for Blue Note were all but forgotten when he passed at 44 in 1963. A.B. Spellman memorialized him with a chapter in 1966's Four Lives in the Be-Bop Business, but he didn't get much respect till… more »

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The Herbie Nichols Project revisits the rarely recorded works of pianist Herbie Nichols, who died in obscurity in 1963. Pianist Frank Kimbrough leads a fine quintet through ten of Nichols’ works, including the richly voiced “Wildflower,” featuring tenor saxophonist Ted Nash and trumpeter Ron Horton, then adds a second version as a piano solo. Surprisingly, one of Nichols’ best-known (but still relatively obscure) pieces, “House Party Starting,” is omitted. – Ken Dryden