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A Fireside Chat with Nicholas Payton
by AAJ Staff
The term “young lion" has followed Nicholas Payton for the duration of his budding career. Fueled by urban legends of Wynton's personal involvement, pressure for Payton must now seem par for the course. Judging by Sonic Trance, his new album for Warner Bros., Payton has survived and more importantly, matured from the industry's unforgiving process. This ...
Sonic Trance
Label: Warner Music Group
Released: 2003
Track listing: Praalude (Sonic Trance); Fela 1; Velvet Handcuffs; Cannabis Leaf Rag 1; S
Nicholas Payton Puts NYC In A 'Sonic Trance'
by AAJ Staff
Nicholas Payton's “Sonic Trance" Iridium New York City October, 17, 2003 Nicholas Payton put the Big Apple in a “Sonic Trance" one cool October evening. Iridium is a delightful dining place, which also happens to host the best acts in jazz. When you're in New York, head over to 1650 ...
Nicholas Payton: In Conversation
by Gregory J. Robb
In some ways, Nicholas Payton's new Warner release, Sonic Trance, was inevitable: he says he was headed this way for quite some time. However, this record represents something of a highlight for the native of New Orleans ' a reach that grasps new uses of technology for aesthetic effect. From the moment we first ...
Nicholas Payton: Sonic Trance
by AAJ Staff
“I wasn’t interested in playing ‘tunes,’” says Nicholas Payton. “So the concept of ‘takes’ wasn’t going to work. We’d start something as I sketched it, then obliterate that and take it somewhere else. No one knew what to expect and that was what made it exciting.” Sonic Trance firmly establishes Nicholas Payton in the jazz world ...
Dear Louis
Label: Verve Music Group
Released: 2001
Track listing: Potato Head Blues, Hello, Dolly, I'll Be Glad When You're Dead (You Rascal You), Tight Like This, Interlude, On the Sunny Side of the Street, Dear Louis, Blues in the Night, The Peanut Vendor, Mack the Knife, Tiger Rag, I'll Never Be the Same, West End Blues.
Something Unexpected
By Peter Martin
Label: MAXJAZZ
Released: 2001
Track listing: 1. Unusual Suspects 2. La Pregunta 3. The Queen 4. Attestation 5. Triste 6. Corcovado 7. Dr. Jackle 8. Lovely One 9. Lotus Blossom 10. I Wish.
Nicholas Payton: Dear Louis
by John Sharpe
The problem with tribute albums is that if you present a slavish recreation of an artist's style, you'll be criticized and if you try to put “old wine in new bottles," critics will say you're not being true to the spirit of the originals. Classic catch-22, right? Regardless, for his tribute to legendary, fellow New Orleans ...
Nicholas Payton: Dear Louis
by C. Andrew Hovan
At the risk of stating the obvious, the best tribute albums involve musicians with their own personalities capable of interpreting the material in such a way as to bring something new and fresh to the table. That is exactly what Nicholas Payton does with Dear Louis. And things could have come out quite to the contrary ...
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