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IN Music Co. Releases "Bigger Than Ever" by Big Nick Nicholas

Source: In Music Co.
June 23, 2011

enor legend Big Nick Nicholas, with his distinctive style, made his mark early among the leading innovators of the jazz illuminati during the explosive era of Swing and Bebop. Although his featured solo on Dizzy Gillespie's “Manteca" in 1947 remains a hallmark in the evolution of jazz, Big Nick's work with leaders like Hot Lips Page, Buck Clayton, Hank and Thad Jones, Earl Hines, Tiny Bradshaw, Sabby Lewis, J. C. Heard, Lucky Millinder, Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Charlie Parker and ...

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