…Nicholas's primary instrument was the clarinet, which he studied with Lorenzo Tio in his hometown of New Orleans. Late in the 1910s he played with Buddy Petit, King Oliver, and Manuel Perez. He spent three years in the Merchant Marines and then joined up again with Oliver in Chicago from 192...
Buddie Petit or Buddy Petit (ca. 1890?-4 July 1931) was a highly regarded early jazz cornetist ... but Petit held out for more money and was never recorded. ...