Nicholas Payton

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The Last Goodbye 05:25 Tools
A Touch Of Silver 00:00 Tools
Taking A Chance On Love 00:00 Tools
Zigaboogaloo 00:00 Tools
Chinatown 00:00 Tools
Way Down Yonder In New Orleans 00:00 Tools
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town 00:00 Tools
West End Blues 00:00 Tools
Tiger Rag 00:00 Tools
Three 00:00 Tools
Drucilla 00:00 Tools
Wild Man Blues 00:00 Tools
Dear Louis 00:00 Tools
Back To The Source 00:00 Tools
Freesia 06:38 Tools
Let It Ride 00:00 Tools
Home For The Holidays 00:00 Tools
Concentric Circles 00:00 Tools
Potato Head Blues 00:00 Tools
Whoopin' Blues 00:00 Tools
The Crimson Touch 00:00 Tools
Triptych 00:00 Tools
Li'l Duke's Strut 00:00 Tools
Rudolf The Red-Nosed Reindeer 00:00 Tools
Fleur De Lis 00:00 Tools
Nida 00:00 Tools
Blue 00:00 Tools
People Make The World Go Round 00:00 Tools
The Backward Step 00:00 Tools
When The Saints Go Marching In 00:00 Tools
Two 00:00 Tools
I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues 00:00 Tools
The Three Trumpeteers 00:00 Tools
Shades of Hue 00:00 Tools
Afro-Caribbean Mixtape 00:00 Tools
By My Side (Ildeth's Blues) 00:00 Tools
Jazz Is a Four-Letter Word 00:00 Tools
Time Traveling 00:00 Tools
Weather Bird 00:00 Tools
Five 00:00 Tools
Mack The Knife 00:00 Tools
With A Song In My Heart 00:00 Tools
Four 00:00 Tools
Indigo 00:00 Tools
After You've Gone 00:00 Tools
Truth or Dare 00:00 Tools
Six 00:00 Tools
Blues In The Night 00:00 Tools
Fela 1 00:00 Tools
On The Sunny Side Of The Street 00:00 Tools
iStole Your iPhone 00:00 Tools
St. James Infirmary 00:00 Tools
Seven 00:00 Tools
Cannabis Leaf Rag 1 00:00 Tools
Eight 00:00 Tools
Pleasant Dreams 00:00 Tools
You Are the Spark 00:00 Tools
The Peanut Vendor 00:00 Tools
Ten 00:00 Tools
Down In Honky Tonk Town 00:00 Tools
Velvet Handcuffs 00:00 Tools
The Three Trumpeters 00:00 Tools
I'll Never Be The Same 00:00 Tools
Thirteen 00:00 Tools
Eleven 00:00 Tools
Relaxin' with Nick 00:00 Tools
Tight Like This 00:00 Tools
Nine 00:00 Tools
Praalude (Sonic Trance) 00:00 Tools
The Charleston Hop 00:00 Tools
Nick@Night 00:00 Tools
Fela 2 00:00 Tools
Somnia 00:00 Tools
Give Light, Live Life, Love 00:00 Tools
Hello, Dolly 00:00 Tools
Shabba Un-Ranked 00:00 Tools
Exquisite Tenderness 00:00 Tools
Love and Faith 00:00 Tools
Togetherness Foreverness 00:00 Tools
Twelve 00:00 Tools
It Could Happen To You 00:00 Tools
You Stepped Out Of A Dream 00:00 Tools
From This Moment On 00:00 Tools
Tantric 00:00 Tools
Bitches 00:00 Tools
Captain Crunch (Meets The Cereal Killer) 00:00 Tools
Kimathi (Main Theme) 00:00 Tools
Fair Weather 00:00 Tools
Séance 00:00 Tools
spiral 00:00 Tools
Flip the Script 00:00 Tools
Interlude (St. James Infirmary) 00:00 Tools
Cannabis Leaf Rag 2 00:00 Tools
Paraphernelia 00:00 Tools
Brownie A La Mode 00:00 Tools
The Second Show (Adam's Plea) 00:00 Tools
blu hays 00:00 Tools
Peeping Tim 00:00 Tools
Little Re-Re 00:00 Tools
The Charleston Hop (The Blue Steps) 00:00 Tools
The Backward Step (Live) 00:00 Tools
Toys in Babeland 00:00 Tools
In The Beginning 00:00 Tools
exorcism 00:00 Tools
Don't I Love You Good 00:00 Tools
You Take Me Places I've Never Been Before 00:00 Tools
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#BAMboula 00:00 Tools
Intro to Kimathi 00:00 Tools
Relexification (Midnight at Tyler's) 00:00 Tools
Paraphernalia 00:00 Tools
La Guajira 00:00 Tools
Li'l Duke Strut 00:00 Tools
I Just Want 2 B With U 00:00 Tools
ACM Remix 1 00:00 Tools
El Guajiro 00:00 Tools
Junie's Boogie 00:00 Tools
Li'l Liza Jane 00:00 Tools
Tantric (Lewd Interlewd) 00:00 Tools
Othello 00:00 Tools
Brownie Aa La Mode 00:00 Tools
Kimathi (For Our Elders and Our Children) 00:00 Tools
Beyond The Stars 00:00 Tools
Maria's Melody 00:00 Tools
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Blues For My Brother 00:00 Tools
Drad Dog (Live) 00:00 Tools
The Sleepwalker 00:00 Tools
Prince Of The Night 00:00 Tools
Madmwazél Ayiti 00:00 Tools
Rhonda's Smile 00:00 Tools
Sun Goddess 00:00 Tools
Jewel 00:00 Tools
I'll Be Glad When You're Dead, You Rascal You 00:00 Tools
Kimathi (Cotton Gin & Tonic) 00:00 Tools
Pannonica (Live) 00:00 Tools
To The Essential One 00:00 Tools
Blacker's Black Revenge 00:00 Tools
Nick @ Night 00:00 Tools
You Rascal You 00:00 Tools
Junie's Interlude 00:00 Tools
ACM Remix 2 00:00 Tools
Catlett Out of the Bag (Live) 00:00 Tools
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The African Tinge (Live) 00:00 Tools
Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer 00:00 Tools
Séance (Romantic Reprise) 00:00 Tools
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Call and Response 00:00 Tools
D for Dario Payton 00:00 Tools
1983 00:00 Tools
Dolphin Dance 00:00 Tools
Return of the African Tinge (Live) 00:00 Tools
Tea for Two 00:00 Tools
Frankie and Johnny (Live) 00:00 Tools
M for Donald Bailey 00:00 Tools
So What 00:00 Tools
The Kiss 00:00 Tools
Jordu 00:00 Tools
Faith > for Faith Evans 00:00 Tools
Stinkie Twinkie (Remix) 00:00 Tools
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Concierto de Aranjuez 00:00 Tools
Mack the Knife (feat. Dr. John) 00:00 Tools
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By My Side (Ildeth’s Blues) 00:00 Tools
Interlude #1 (Turn Up the Funk) 00:00 Tools
Interlude #2 (Turn Out the Burn Out) 00:00 Tools
Blues in the Night (feat. Dr. John & Dianne Reeves) 00:00 Tools
ACM Remix 3 00:00 Tools
Brownie À La Mode 00:00 Tools
Freesia - featuring Esperanza Spalding 00:00 Tools
Stablemates 00:00 Tools
My Funny Valentine 00:00 Tools
L'Il Liza Jane 00:00 Tools
Will O' the Wisp 00:00 Tools
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Smooth 00:00 Tools
Stinkie Twinkie [Remix] 00:00 Tools
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Brownie' A La Mode 00:00 Tools
N for the Piano Players 00:00 Tools
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The Sidewinder 00:00 Tools
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The Egyptian Second Line (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Solea 00:00 Tools
Little Angel > for Christopher 00:00 Tools
Driftin' 00:00 Tools
The Pan Piper 00:00 Tools
Don’t I Love You Good 00:00 Tools
The Second Show (Adam’s Plea) 00:00 Tools
Saeta 00:00 Tools
P for Bud Powell 00:00 Tools
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Tom Thumb 00:00 Tools
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Sticky 00:00 Tools
The Egyptian Second Line - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Velvet Handcuffs (Live Version) 00:00 Tools
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Jazz is a Four-Letter Word (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
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Nostalgia 00:00 Tools
Silky 00:00 Tools
There's No You 00:00 Tools
Fire Waltz 00:00 Tools
Jazz is a Four-Letter Word - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Praalude - Sonic Trance 00:00 Tools
Seance (Romantic Reprise) 00:00 Tools
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Togetherness Foreverness - featuring N’dambi 00:00 Tools
Fela 1 (Live Version) 00:00 Tools
The Egyptian Second Line 00:00 Tools
Fuzzy 00:00 Tools
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Y Miss Me If U Don't Have 2 00:00 Tools
Sounds Like a Memory 00:00 Tools
Drad Dog 00:00 Tools
Soft 00:00 Tools
E.S.P 00:00 Tools
Paraphernelia (Wayne Shorter) 00:00 Tools
That's Earl Brother 00:00 Tools
Chameleon 00:00 Tools
Stinkie Twinkie (Remix) (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Hard 00:00 Tools
Seance (Romantic Reprise) (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
I Hear a Rhapsody 00:00 Tools
Seance - Romantic Reprise 00:00 Tools
Cannabis Leaf Rag 2 (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Miyako 00:00 Tools
Tantric - Lewd Interlewd 00:00 Tools
Greasy 00:00 Tools
Flip The Script – featuring Saunders Sermons 00:00 Tools
You Take Me Places I’ve Never Been Before – featuring Cassandra Wilson 00:00 Tools
Fela 2 (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Frankie And Johnny 00:00 Tools
T for Wilson Turbinton 00:00 Tools
Seance [Romantic Reprise] 00:00 Tools
Faith 00:00 Tools
Bitches – featuring Chinah Blac 00:00 Tools
Little Angel 00:00 Tools
Seance - Romantic Reprise Album Version 00:00 Tools
Prototype 00:00 Tools
Catlett Out Of The Bag 00:00 Tools
Pannonica 00:00 Tools
Wet 00:00 Tools
Witch Hunt 00:00 Tools
Growth Part I 00:00 Tools
InThe Beginning 00:00 Tools
Toys In Babeland (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Rough 00:00 Tools
footprints 00:00 Tools
Cannabis Leaf Rag 1 (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Interlude No. 2 (Turn Out The Burn Out) 00:00 Tools
Fingerpainting 00:00 Tools
The African Tinge 00:00 Tools
Interlude No. 1 (Turn Up The Funk) 00:00 Tools
Return Of The African Tinge 00:00 Tools
Seance 00:00 Tools
Praalude - Sonic Trance Album Version 00:00 Tools
Peeping Tim (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Montezuma 00:00 Tools
ACM (Remix 2) 00:00 Tools
Two Mexicans On The Wall (I. Too Much Tequila, Ii. Sleeves Too Long, Pants Too Short, Ill. El Guitarronista) 00:00 Tools
Stinkie Twinkie - Remix 00:00 Tools
Velvet Handcuffs (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Fela 1 (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Seance (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Spiral (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
One Finger Snap 00:00 Tools
Tantric - Lewd Interlewd Album Version 00:00 Tools
You Make Me Feel So Young 00:00 Tools
H for Al Hirt 00:00 Tools
Blu Hays (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Fela 1 - Live Version 00:00 Tools
Two Mexicans On The Wall (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Masqalero 00:00 Tools
Tantric (Lewd Interlewd) (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Two Mexicans on the Wall: Too Much Tequila... 00:00 Tools
Yromem a Ekil Sdnuos 00:00 Tools
Beauty And The Beast 00:00 Tools
On the Sunny Side of the Street (feat. Dianne Reeves) 00:00 Tools
Bitches (feat. Chinah Blac) 00:00 Tools
Teru 00:00 Tools
F (for Axel Foley) 00:00 Tools
Exorcism (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Beardom X 00:00 Tools
Speak Like A Child 00:00 Tools
Two Mexicans on the Wall (Live Version) 00:00 Tools
Seance - Romantic Reprise Album Version 00:00 Tools
Body And Soul 00:00 Tools
Stinkie Twinkie - Remix Album Version 00:00 Tools
Shabba Un-Ranked (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Freesia (feat. Esperanza Spalding) 00:00 Tools
Tantric - Lewd Interlewd Album Version 00:00 Tools
The Sorcerer 00:00 Tools
Tantric (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
T for Wilson Turbington 00:00 Tools
Home For Holidays 00:00 Tools
Chan's Song 00:00 Tools
Let It Ride - Nicholas Payton 00:00 Tools
Sly 00:00 Tools
Flip The Script (feat. Saunders Sermons) 00:00 Tools
ACM (Remix 3) 00:00 Tools
Jeepers Creepers 00:00 Tools
When I Fall in Love 00:00 Tools
Drucilla - Nicholas Payton 00:00 Tools
Faith [For Faith Evans] 00:00 Tools
The Crimson Touch - Nicholas Payton 00:00 Tools
Triptych - Nicholas Payton 00:00 Tools
Eye of the Hurricane 00:00 Tools
Two Mexicans On The Wall (i. Too Much Tequila, ii. Sleeves Too Long, Pants Too Short, iii. El Guitarronista) 00:00 Tools
Evolution Of The Innocent 00:00 Tools
Stardust 00:00 Tools
Rhonda Mile 00:00 Tools
Jane's Theme 00:00 Tools
Cannabis Leaf Raq 1 00:00 Tools
Velvet Handcuffs - Live Version 00:00 Tools
Shabba Unranked 00:00 Tools
Chinatown - Nicholas Payton 00:00 Tools
The Backwards Step - Nicholas Payton 00:00 Tools
Profile Of A Beautiful Woman 00:00 Tools
Little Angel [For Christopher] 00:00 Tools
Save It Pretty Mama 00:00 Tools
Tantrick (Lewd Interlewd) 00:00 Tools
Praalude (Sonic Trance) [David Was Remix] 00:00 Tools
Togetherness Foreverness (feat. N'dambi) 00:00 Tools
Tape Intro 00:00 Tools
How Deep Is the Ocean? 00:00 Tools
Fleur De Lis - Nicholas Payton 00:00 Tools
Interlude, No. 1 (Turn up the Funk) 00:00 Tools
Violets for Your Furs 00:00 Tools
Nida - Nicholas Payton 00:00 Tools
Stinkie Twinkie - Remix Album Version 00:00 Tools
Blue - Nicholas Payton 00:00 Tools
Two Mexicans On The Wall - Live Version 00:00 Tools
Dinah 00:00 Tools
Jada 00:00 Tools
Cannabis Leaf Rag 00:00 Tools
Flip the Script (feat. Sauners Sermons) 00:00 Tools
The Charleston Hop - Nicholas Payton 00:00 Tools
Two Mexicans on the Wall: Too Much Tequila/Sleeves Too Long, Pants Too 00:00 Tools
Tell Me a Bedtime Story 00:00 Tools
Camels 00:00 Tools
The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise 00:00 Tools
I Cover the Waterfront 00:00 Tools
The Eye Of The Hurricane 00:00 Tools
Backwards Step 00:00 Tools
Two Mexicans On The Wall / Too much tequila, sleeves too long pants too short, el guitarronista 00:00 Tools
I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You 00:00 Tools
Interlude(St. James Infirmary) 00:00 Tools
She's Funny That Way 00:00 Tools
Captain Crunch 00:00 Tools
Interlude, No. 2 (Turn Out the Burn Out) 00:00 Tools
Blu Hayes 00:00 Tools
I Gotta Right to Sing the Blue 00:00 Tools
A Kiss to Build a Dream On 00:00 Tools
When It's Sleepy Time Down South 00:00 Tools
Oliloque Valley 00:00 Tools
Maybe 00:00 Tools
By My Side 00:00 Tools
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The Backwards Step (Incomplete) 00:00 Tools
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The Return of the African Tinge 00:00 Tools
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Sometimes I'm Happy 00:00 Tools
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Days of wine and roses 00:00 Tools
How Deep Is the Ocean 00:00 Tools
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Do You Believe In Love At Sight? 00:00 Tools
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Straight No Chaser 00:00 Tools
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I Want to Stay in New Orleans 00:00 Tools
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Faith (For Faith Evans) 00:00 Tools
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Nicholas Payton (born September 26, 1973) is a 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 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 througout the United States and Europe. Upon leaving school he enrolled first at the New Orleans Centre 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. After seven albums on Verve Payton signed with Warner Brothers, 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, Christian McBride, Joshua Redman, Roy Hargrove, and Doc Cheatham. (2) Trumpeter, composer, and bandleader Nicholas Payton was raised in New Orleans, a town chock-full of trumpet players and he originally followed in the footsteps of a mile-long line of tradition-based players including Buddy Bolden, Louis Armstrong, Al Hirt, and of course, Wynton Marsalis. Payton is the son of Walter Payton, a well-known bassist on the Crescent City jazz scene. His mother played piano. Given his upbringing in a musical family, Payton often spent upwards of ten hours a day practicing trumpet in his youth. He began playing trumpet as a four-year-old, after asking his father to get him one. He began accompanying his father to shows at clubs in his youth and had the chance to hear many great trumpet players. "I had a chance to hear some great trumpeters like Wendell Brunious, Leroy Jones, Clyde Kerr Jr., and Teddy Riley," Payton said in a 2003 interview, and he also recalled seeing Wynton Marsalis when he was in high school. "I got to hear a bunch of people play trumpet in a town that has been noted for trumpet players since Buddy Bolden. For me, trumpet fit my personality. It suited my voice. You're able to express a wide range of emotions on the instrument," he said. The turning point for the young Payton came when he was 11, when he heard a Miles Davis quartet album that was in his parents' record collection. With the opening notes of the recording, he knew then he wanted to be a trumpet player and play jazz. He started performing publicly as a ten-year-old and began playing in the streets as a year later. He worked everywhere from jazz funerals to weddings to bar mitzvahs, and played on the streets for tips. Although he knew he wanted to play jazz, he also knew "you can't make a living in New Orleans being a genre-oriented musician." Payton said, "A lot of the guys my father played with in jazz bands were school teachers during the day, and they would play gigs at night and on weekends." Payton attended New Orleans' high school for the Creative Arts and studied with Clyde Kerr Jr.; he later studied briefly at the University of New Orleans with pianist Ellis Marsalis, who raised Wynton, Branford, Delfeayo, and Jason. Payton learned more from showing up at the elder Marsalis' gigs at Snug Harbor and other Crescent City jazz clubs than he did in the classroom. "He would let me sit in," Payton recalled in 2003, "and the thing with Ellis is he challenges you to be able to teach yourself. That's the key to jazz. Only you can know how you want to sound. A good teacher will facilitate the development of your own style." Payton's college career at UNO was interrupted by the chance to go on the road with drummer Elvin Jones. He had spent time on the road with Marcus Roberts and other touring musicians, but those were shorter stints. Spending two years on the road with drummer Jones was his first big break, he recalled. Through the years, Payton has recorded and performed with Wynton Marsalis, Dr. Michael White, Christian McBride, Joshua Redman, Roy Hargrove, Doc Cheatham, and Joe Henderson, among others. He began his recording career with Verve Records, and his first album, From This Moment, was released in 1992. Two years later he performed on the soundtrack for the movie Kansas City, and in 1997 he received a Grammy Award for his playing on a collaborative album with then-nonagenarian trumpeter Doc Cheatham, Doc Cheatham & Nicholas Payton. He also released 1995's Gumbo Nouveau, 1997's Fingerpainting: The Music of Herbie Hancock, 1998's Payton's Place, 1999's Nick@Night, and 2001's Dear Louis. Payton signed with Warner Bros. in 2003, releasing the '70s fusion-influenced Sonic Trance. An auto accident briefly sidelined Payton's career as he took time to fully recover. He returned with Mysterious Shorter on Chesky in 2006 and Into the Blue on Nonesuch in 2008. Well known as a risk taker, Payton took one of his grandest on 2011's B**ches. A concept recording that details the stages and ending of a romantic relationship, Payton composed and arranged all 16 songs (which include lyrics), played every instrument, sang and played trumpet throughout, and produced the entire set. He is accompanied on the album by special guest vocalists Cassandra Wilson, Esperanza Spalding, N'Dambi, Chinah Blac, and Saunders Sermons. ~ Richard Skelly, Rovi Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.