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Herbie Nichols reviewed in Paris Transatlantic Magazine

cover for Herbie Nichols: A Jazzist’s Life
Miller's biography is an essential step in the process of recovery and celebration, consolidating and adding to what's known about one of the most compelling figures in postwar jazz.

Herbie Nichols: A Jazzists Life

by Nate Dorward
Paris Transatlantic Magazine
Tuesday, December 15, 2009

The pianist Herbie Nichols (1919–1963) is perhaps modern jazz's quintessential "neglected genius", and while Miller tends to keep his larger themes implicit in his writing, his new biography of Nichols nonetheless suggests his continued preoccupation with questions about the ways individual creativity has been nurtured and recognized (or not) within the jazz scene...
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