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Clown Lodge Free #1
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Clown Lodge Free #1
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Released: Jan 1, 2009
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  • Genre: Electroacoustic / Experimental / Jazz

    Location MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, US

    Profile Views: 13824

    Last Login: 3/8/2010

    Member Since 5/25/2008

    Website bryannichols.org

    Type of Label Unsigned

  • Bio

    See bryannichols.org for more information and maybe a more up to date bio! Plus newer live songs and lots of other stuff. Bryan Nichols is a Minneapolis-based pianist and composer, working primarily in jazz and other instrumental music. He returned to Minneapolis in 2005 after four busy years in Chicago where he played with straightahead and free-jazz heavyweights like Corey Wilkes, Jeff Parker, Nicole Mitchell, Von Freeman, Hamid Drake and Ernest Dawkins. Since returning to Minneapolis, he’s been an in-demand freelancer, in addition to playing regularly with the Kelly Rossum Quartet, James Buckley Trio, Chris Morrisey Quartet, Zacc Harris Quartet, the Gang Font, Off the Map, Bruce Henry Band, the Minneapolis/Chicago collective City of Fiction, and also balancing gigs with his own trio and quartet as well as composing and teaching jazz piano at MacPhail Center for Music. Bryan was awarded with a 2004 residency by Betty Carter’s Jazz Ahead program, based in the Kennedy center in Washington D.C., a fellowship given on basis of excellence in performing and composing. His work as a composer also earned him a 2009 grant from the American Composers Forum. He has performed at virtually all of the music venues in the Twin Cities and Chicago, in addition to international festivals like Sons d’Hiver (Paris, France) and Kerava Jazz Festival (Kerava, Finland) as well as local and regional festivals like the Chicago Jazz Festival and the Minnesota Sur Seine Festival. Bryan is featured on recent recordings by James Buckley, Chris Morrisey, Gordon Johnson, Kelly Rossum and Nicole Mitchell.

  • Members

    I perform regularly with musicians like: James Buckley, Chris Thomson, JT Bates, Michael Lewis, Adam Linz, Chris Bates, Bruce Henry, Dean Magraw, Dave King, Anthony Cox, Chris Morrisey, Kelly Rossum, Scott Fultz, Alden Ikeda, Phil Hey, Jay Epstein, Gordy Johnson, Jeremy Boetcher, Tim Glenn, Brandon Wozniak and lots of other dudes who are way cool too.

  • Influences

    Who do you even put in these things? I'm heavily influenced by friends like JT Bates, Chris Thomson, Michael Lewis, Adam Linz, James Buckley. I'm influenced by Andrew Hill and Sonny Clark and Kenny Barron and Keith Jarret and Bill Carrothers and Craig Taborn and Herbie Hancock and Geri Allen. Miles Davis? Jimi Hendrix? Nick Drake? Thelonious Monk. Jason Moran is pretty sweet, but so is Radiohead. Happy Apple. Uri Caine. Paul Motian. I'm forgetting everyone really, but lots of influences, ok?

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