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Nicholas Payton Wiki Information
Nicholas Payton
(born September 26, 1973) is a Neo-bop jazz trumpet player from New Orleans, Louisiana.
The son of bassist and sousaphonist Walter Payton, he took up the trumpet at the age of four and by the time he was nine he was playing in the Young Tuxedo Brass Band alongside his father. Encouraged by Wynton Marsalis, who was himself involved in New Orleans' jazz and New Orleans-style brass band music in his youth, Payton played semi-professionally throughout his grade school years and at the age of 12 played with the All Star Jazz Band at festivals throughout the United States and Europe. Upon leaving school he enrolled first at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts and then at the University of New Orleans, where he studied with Ellis Marsalis.
After touring with Marcus Roberts and Elvin Jones in the early 90s Payton signed a recording contract with Verve; his first album, From This Moment
, appeared in 1994. In 1996 he performed on the soundtrack of the movie Kansas City, and in 1997 received a Grammy Award (Best Instrumental Solo) for his playing on the album Doc Cheatham & Nicholas Payton
. From 1998-99, he was a sideman with The Seatbelts New York Musicians that did the music for the popular anime Cowboy Bebop and played on four of the original soundtracks, Cowboy Bebop, Vitaminless, No Disc, and Cowboy Bebop Blue. He also played on the boxed set as well. After seven albums on Verve, Payton signed with Warner Bros. Records, releasing Sonic Trance
, his first album on the new label, in 2003. Besides his recordings under his own name, Payton has also played and recorded with Wynton Marsalis, Dr. Michael White, Christian McBride, Joshua Redman, Roy Hargrove, Doc Cheatham and Joe Henderson.
In 2008, Payton became part of The Blue Note 7, a septet formed that year in honor of the 70th anniversary of Blue Note Records. The group recorded an album in 2008, entitled Mosaic
, which was released in 2009 on Blue Note Records/EMI, and toured the United States in promotion of the album from January until April 2009. The group plays the music of Blue Note Records from various artists, with arrangements by members of the band and Renee Rosnes.
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NICHOLAS PAYTON TICKETS
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Discography
- 1994 - From This Moment
(Verve)
- 1995 - Gumbo Nouveau
(Verve)
- 1997 - Fingerpainting: The Music Of Herbie Hancock
(Verve) with Christian McBride and Mark Whitfield
- 1997 - Doc Cheatham & Nicholas Payton
(Verve)
- 1998 - Payton's Place
(PolyGram Records)
- 1999 - Nick@Night
(Verve)
- 1999 - Trumpet Legacy
(Milestone) with Lew Soloff, Tom Harrell, and Eddie Henderson
- 2001 - Dear Louis
(Verve)
- 2003 - Sonic Trance
(Warner Bros. Records)
- 2004 - Live in New York 1.24.04
(Kufala Recordings) with Sonic Trance
- 2006 - Mysterious Shorter
(Chesky) with Sam Yahel, Billy Drumond, John Hart, and Bob Belden
- 2008 - Into The Blue
(Nonesuch)
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