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Herbie Nichols reviewed in the Globe and Mail
Miller's work is thorough, enlightening and a very readable achievement, filling a vital gap in jazz history.
Filling the Jazz Gap
by Geoff Chapman
The Globe and Mail
Friday, December 18, 2009
The only bellowed greetings of “Herbie” from expectant jazz fans nowadays will be for star pianist Herbie Hancock. It's highly unlikely anyone 50 years ago was shrieking “Herbie” in honour of American piano pioneer Herbie Nichols, whose life ended early, in 1963 at the age of 44, from leukemia. Yet in his own, unique way, he was a towering figure in the music that, in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s, was undergoing wrenching revolutions of approach...
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