''Love, Gloom, Cash, Love'' is the last album as leader by jazz pianist Herbie Nichols, featuring performances recorded in 1957 and released on the

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, who died in November 1956.

Reception

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review by Brian Beatty stated: "These performances may be less animated than Nichols' earlier sides as a leader, but that's not to suggest the pianist's writing or playing had become pedestrian or predictable... Nichols' complex melodies and solos shine that much brighter".Beatty, B. Allmusic Review: ''Love, Gloom, Cash, Love''accessed November 30, 2010 Patrick Burnette of ''

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'' noted that the album is "probably the best place to start" with Nichols' music, and commented: "George Duvivier and Dannie Richmond are marvelously energetic and sympatico—the session threatens to break into dance at several points." A reviewer for '' Billboard'' wrote: "His piano stylings are original and his many compositions included here are interesting too... Good wax that should win Nichols new fans." Critic Martin Williams called the album "exceptional," and remarked: "Nichols is original. He may remind us of Powell and Monk, and of Fats Waller and Teddy Wilson, but it is also obvious that he plays with a jazz style that is thoroughly Nichols." Author Gene Santoro stated that the album consists of "bracingly nuanced sketches of potentially far richer compositions," and described the title track as "an ambitious waltz with interpolated tempo shifts and turnarounds of jagged scalar riffs, a skeletal X ray of a deeper psychological picture."

Track listing

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) # "Infatuation Eyes" - 2:45 # "S'crazy Pad" - 4:06 :*Recorded in New York City in November 1957

Personnel

* Herbie Nichols - piano * George Duvivier - bass (tracks 1-8 & 10) *

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- drums (tracks 1-8 & 10)

References

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