Nicholas Payton
Nicholas Anthony Payton ( born September 26, 1973 in New Orleans) is an American trumpeter and cornetist of Neobop.
Life and career
Payton was born in New Orleans into a musical family - his mother was a pianist and singer, his father Walter Payton bassist and tuba player - and learned from four years of trumpet. At age nine, he played with his father in the " Young Tuxedo Brass Band " and the age of twelve he entered the "All Star Jazz Band " at festivals in Europe. The, also from New Orleans Wynton Marsalis encouraged him continue to play semi - professionally next to the school. He studied music and played the trumpet at " New Orleans Center of Creative Arts ' ( NOCCA ) and then at the University of New Orleans with Ellis Marsalis, father of Wynton Marsalis. From the 1990s he played with famous jazz musicians such as Clark Terry, Marcus Roberts, Elvin Jones, Courtney Pine, Joshua Redman, Roy Hargrove, Joe Henderson, Wynton Marsalis and the SFJAZZ Collective. In 1996 he played the music for the film "Kansas City " by Robert Altman with one, as part of an "All Star " group of younger American jazz. About the same time he performed with trumpeter Doc Cheatham until shortly before his death in 1997 and also took a drive with him, for which he received a Grammy (Best Instrumental Solo). His first recording as a leader was released in 1994 by Verve.
Debate about Black American Music
Payton broke in late 2011 as a blogger a debate by the thesis of jazz is dead ( since the development of cool jazz with the peak in 1959 ) and the name itself an (initially racist ) labeling White, caused by a narrowing of the forms of musical expression and elitist imposed from the outside categorization and demarcation disputes of Black American Music (BAM) and their relationship with the audience has harmed. Instead of the name Jazz, he suggests the use of BAM, which he also suggested at a panel discussion in front of a distinguished audience from the American jazz scene at Birdland in January 2012. It was chaired by writer and cultural critic Touré, participants were Gary Bartz ( who worked with Miles Davis and Charles Mingus, who commented in the past similar to Payton ), Orrin Evans, Marcus Strickland and bassist Ben Wolfe.
Payton preferred for its music, the term post-modern New Orleans music and sees jazz as the first American pop music with Louis Armstrong as its first pop superstar - He regards himself ironically as Savior of Archaic Pop.
Disco printing specifications
As a leader:
- From This Moment, Verve 1994
- Gumbo Nouveau, Verve 1995
- With Christian McBride and Mark Whitfield Fingerpainting: The Music Of Herbie Hancock, Verve 1997
- Doc Cheatham and Nicholas Payton, Verve 1997
- Payton 's Place, Verve 1997
- With Lew Soloff, Tom Harrell, Eddie Henderson Trumpet Legacy, Milestone 1999
- Dear Louis, Verve 2001 ( with Dianne Reeves, Dr. John )
- Sonic Trance, Warner Brothers 2003