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{{Infobox album
| name       = Love, Gloom, Cash, Love
| type       = Album
| artist     = [[Herbie Nichols]]
| cover      = Love, Gloom, Cash, Love.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = 1958
| recorded   = November 1957
| venue      =
| studio     =
| genre      = [[Jazz]]
| length     = 41:09
| label      = [[Bethlehem Records|Bethlehem]]
| producer   = Lee Kraft
| chronology = [[Herbie Nichols]]
| year       = 1957
| prev_title = [[Herbie Nichols Trio]]
| prev_year  = 1955–56
| next_title =
| next_year  =
}}
'''''Love, Gloom, Cash, Love''''' is the last album as leader by jazz pianist [[Herbie Nichols]], featuring performances recorded in 1957 and released on the [[Bethlehem Records|Bethlehem]] label in 1958.<ref name="Bethlehem discography">[http://www.jazzdisco.org/bethlehem-records/catalog-deluxe-series/#bcp-81 Bethlehem Records discography] accessed November 30, 2010</ref> “Infatuation Eyes” is a solo piano piece paying tribute to [[Art Tatum]], who died in November 1956.
==Reception==
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = ''[[All About Jazz]]''
| rev1Score = {{rating|4.5|5}}<ref name="aaj"/>
| rev2 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev2Score = {{rating|4.5|5}}<ref name="Allmusic"/>
}}
The [[AllMusic]] 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".<ref name="Allmusic">Beatty, B. [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=love-gloom-cash-love-r144742|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic Review: ''Love, Gloom, Cash, Love''] accessed November 30, 2010</ref>
Patrick Burnette of ''[[All About Jazz]]'' 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."<ref name="aaj">{{cite web |url=https://www.allaboutjazz.com/love-gloom-cash-love-by-patrick-burnette |title=Herbie Nichols: Love, Gloom, Cash, Love |first=Patrick |last=Burnette |date=October 21, 2017 |website=All About Jazz |access-date=July 11, 2023}}</ref>
A reviewer for ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' wrote: "His piano stylings are original and his many compositions included here are interesting too... Good wax that should win Nichols new fans."<ref>{{cite magazine |date=January 26, 1959 |title=Reviews and Ratings of New Jazz Albums |magazine=Billboard |pages=34 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uh4EAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22herbie+nichols%22+%22Love%2C+Gloom%2C+Cash%2C+Love%22&pg=PA34 |via=Google Books}}</ref>
Critic [[Martin Williams (writer)|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."<ref>{{cite book |last=Williams |first=Martin |title=Jazz Changes |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=1992 |pages=234 }}</ref>
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."<ref>{{cite book |last=Santoro |first=Gene |title=Highway 61 Revisited: The Tangled Roots of American Jazz, Blues, Rock, & Country Music |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2004 |pages=291 }}</ref>
==Track listing==
:''All compositions by Herbie Nichols, except as indicated''
# "[[Too Close for Comfort (1956 song)|Too Close for Comfort]]" ([[Jerry Bock]], Larry Holofcener, [[George David Weiss]]) - 4:50
# "Every Cloud" - 3:55
# "Argumentative" - 3:40
# "Love, Gloom, Cash, Love" - 4:21
# "Portrait of Ucha" - 3:48
# "Beyond Recall" - 4:36
# "[[All the Way (Frank Sinatra song)|All the Way]]" ([[Sammy Cahn]], [[Jimmy Van Heusen]]) - 4:28
# "45 Degree Angle" - 4:40 ([[Denzil Best]])
# "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)
*[[Dannie Richmond]] - drums (tracks 1-8 & 10)
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