Stuart Nicholson (born 8 January 1948)[1] is a British jazz historian, biographer, music critic, journalist, and academic.
The author of numerous articles on jazz in newspapers, magazines and academic publications, he has taught as a visiting professor on the faculty of the Leeds College of Music and as a guest lecturer at multiple institutions internationally.
He has written biographies on Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, and Duke Ellington, and has published articles on jazz related topics in multiple journals and newspapers; including The Observer, The Western Mail, Gramophone, Jazzwise, Jazz Times, and The Wire among others.
[1] 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.