group, the Herbie Nichols Project (part of the Jazz Composers Collective) has recorded three albums largely dedicated to unrecorded Nichols' compositions, many of which Nichols had deposited in the Library of Congress. Discography As leader Compilations 1952: Herbie Nichols Quartet (Savoy; first LP issue: Various Artists I Just Love Jazz Piano - Down And Out (1957), session sometimes reissued with the Gigi Gryce album Nica's Tempo) The Complete Blue Note Recordings (Blue Note; reissued by Mosaic) As sideman 1953: Rex Stewart and his Dixielanders Dixieland Free-For-All (Jazztone, 1956) 1958: Vic Dickenson & Joe Thomas, Mainstream (Atlantic) References Further reading 1919 births 1963 deaths People from Manhattan American people of Trinidad and Tobago descent American jazz composers American male jazz composers American jazz pianists American male pianists Bebop pianists Dixieland pianists Blue Note Records artists Jazz musicians from New York (state) 20th-century American male musicians 20th-century American pianists Bethlehem Records artists 20th-century jazz composers