A Seattle native, Nick has been a working pianist and keyboardist in the area since 1975. Though jazz is his home base, he has played in countless solo and ensemble environments, in styles ranging from pop to salsa and from funk to big-band swing.
With a musical palette incorporating lyricism, rhythmic groove, and sensitivity, Nick often accompanies local jazz vocalists. You may have recently heard him around the area with Carrie Wicks, Eugenie Jones, the Jewel Tones, Billy Brandt, Marina Christopher, Gail Pettis, and others.
For the past few years, Nick has been collaborating and composing with Ms. Wicks, whose four CDs on Origin Records have received rave reviews and national airplay. He served as coproducer on her most recent, Reverie, released in October 2019, and as associate producer on 2015’s Maybe. Nick and Carrie have performed together at North City Bistro, Northwest Cellars, the Sorrento Hotel’s Fireside Room, Egan’s Ballard Jam House, Match Coffee & Wine, and St. Clouds, among other venues.
Nick provided the keyboard work on bassist/vocalist/composer Marina Christopher’s 2016 CD Must Love Cats. In support of that CD, the band performed a live studio session at KPLU-FM (now KNKX); audio and video are here. He also accompanied Marina at Jazz Alley as part of the 2017 Seattle-Kobe Female Jazz Vocalist Audition.
As a solo pianist, Nick can regularly be heard at Aqua by El Gaucho, on Seattle’s Pier 70. He also performs summer concerts and private events with Soul Purpose, a 10- to 14-piece R&B band with an enthusiastic following.
Other performing and recording credits over the years include Bochinche, Airbrush, Deborah Brown, Kelly Harland, Floyd Standifer, Aja West, Kathy Hart, Gary Peacock, Cheeba, Joanne Klein, and many others.
Nick is available for private functions, either as a solo performer or with an ensemble assembled to suit the occasion.