Stuart Nicholson

Stuart Nicholson (born 8 January 1948)

Nicholson is a former faculty member of the Leeds College of Music where he worked as a visiting professor. In 2009 he was the keynote speaker of the Jazz Platform at the conference of the European Association of Conservatoires held at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. He has also appeared as a guest lecturer or as a keynote speaker at music conferences at a variety of institutions, including the Leeds Conservatoire, Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, the Welsh College of Music and Drama, the MaiJazz Festival in Norway, and the National Jazz Archive in Essex, England among others.

Partial list of work Ella Fitzgerald: a Biography of the First Lady of Jazz (first edition published in 1993, London; second edition published February 2004, London) Billie Holiday (1995, London) Jazz: the Modern Resurgence (1990, London); republished as Jazz: the 1980s Resurgence (1995, New York City) Jazz Rock: a History (1998, London) Reminiscing in Tempo: a Portrait of Duke Ellington (1999, London) Is Jazz Dead? (Or has it Moved to a New Address) (2005, London)