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Herbie Nichols

American jazz pianist and composer, born January 3, 1919 in New York, died April 12, 1963, San Juan Hill, Manhattan, New York. Nichols originally played in bop groups, but is best known today for his own highly original compositions, program music which combines bop, Dixieland, and West Indian music with harmonies derived from Erik Satie and Béla Bartók.