Sonic Trance
Released: Sep 9, 2003
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Released: Sep 9, 2003
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Changing labels from Verve to Warner Bros. and dropping any connection to his neo-bop past, trumpeter Nicholas Payton has crafted a funk-jazz album that unabashedly resurrects iconic trumpeter...
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Dear Louis
Released: Mar 20, 2001
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Released: Mar 20, 2001
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Dear Louis is based upon Nicholas Payton's commissioned tribute to jazz icon Louis Armstrong and was recorded primarily during the year 2000. The CD features 13 songs primarily popularized by Louis...
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Payton's Place
Released: Sep 29, 1997
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Released: Sep 29, 1997
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Payton's third album as a leader is assuredly more commanding than his previous projects, and his technically flawless trumpet is right among the leaders in the neo-bop field. Yet he remains...
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Gumbo Nouveau
Released: Nov 28, 1995
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Released: Nov 28, 1995
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Only 22 at the time of this CD, Nicholas Payton had already quickly developed into a major trumpeter. Possessing a fat tone that is sometimes reminiscent of Freddie Hubbard, by the mid-'90s Payton...
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From This Moment
Released: Sep 11, 1994
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Released: Sep 11, 1994
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The young trumpeter Nicholas Payton is featured on this CD as the only horn in a sextet also including guitarist Mark Whitfield, pianist Mulgrew Miller and vibraphonist Monte Croft. Best are...
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Nick@Night
Released: 1999
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Released: 1999
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By the last years of the 1990s, Nicholas Payton's trumpet-playing and leadership abilities were growing in leaps and bounds in live performance. However, the valedictory record of that decade...
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