This group came to France and played in Marseille (in a small ephemeral club L'Elbow) and in Cogolin at La Jasse.
They released their first album in 1967 on the Immediate Records label, entitled The Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack, based on the musicians' names.
He thus played with former Nice colleagues Keith Emerson and Lee Jackson on an album by Roy Harper, Flat, Baroque & Berserk in 1970, on the piece "Hell's Angels".
In 2002, Keith Emerson reformed The Nice with Lee Jackson, Brian Davison and guitarist Dave Kilminster, augmented for a few songs by Phil Williams on bass and Pete Riley on drums.
A tour of England followed and a live album Vivacitas was released in 2003, with songs from The Nice including the double "America/Rondo" and "Karelia Suite".
[1] He died of a brain tumour on 15 April 2008 at home in Horns Cross Bideford, Devon, aged 65.