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Doc Cheatham & Nicholas Payton: Jeepers Creepers (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music August 18, 09Trumpeter Nicholas Payton is a musician who deeply understands and has assimilated Louis Armstrong's legacy. Doc Che...
Nicholas Payton: A Touch of Silver (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music March 31, 09Nicholas Payton's third release as a leader arrived just after his popular collaboration with Doc Cheatham, which res...
Nicholas Payton: Chinatown (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music April 30, 08Nicholas Payton, hailed by some as a young lion of jazz trumpet, takes a fresh approach in this offering. Predominate...
Nicholas Payton: Fleur de Lis (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music April 30, 08After deliberately establishing the beat with Gilmore's clear and sustained cymbal and snare work on the opening, the...
Nicholas Payton: When the Saints Go Marching In (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music August 17, 09Contrary to what you might think, Dixieland bands hate playing this tune. Back in the 1960s, the Preservation Hall J...
Christian McBride / Nicholas Payton / Mark Whitfield: Oliloqui Valley (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music April 15, 08With Herbie Hancock's celebration of Joni Mitchell, River: The Joni Letters, receiving much recent acclaim, now is pe...
Greg Osby: East St. Louis Toodle-Oo (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music March 11, 09Duke Ellington gave two differing explanations for the derivation of the title "East St. Louis Toodle-Oo," his theme ...
Greg Osby: The Single Petal of a Rose (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music March 17, 09For St. Louis Shoes, Greg Osby imaginatively scaled down for a quintet the orchestral arrangement of "East St. Louis ...
Allen Toussaint: Long, Long Journey (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music April 22, 09If you glance at the track details, you might puzzle over this concoction. A New Orleans theme album, but named afte...
The Blue Note 7: Little B's Poem (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music January 15, 09Here is one measure of how much thing have changed in jazz. When the Blue Note label tried to brand a band back in t...
Dr. Michael White: Will the Circle Be Unbroken? (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music May 18, 08This song may be better known as a gospel or folk or roots tune, and its origins can be traced back to British-born C...
Cassandra Wilson: Lover Come Back to Me (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music June 13, 08The rhythm section adopts a retro pose on this reworking of a 1928 Romberg and Hammerstein standard. Sewell's chug-a...
In Conversation with Nicholas Payton posted in Features and Interviews August 29, 08By Ted Panken ...
Payton, Nicholas (Anthony) posted in Encyclopedia May 21, 09Trumpeter Nicholas Payton's style combines the rich vibrato of Louis Armstrong with the flexible articulations of C...
A History of New Orleans Music in 100 Tracks (Part Two) posted in Features and Interviews September 02, 09Edited by Ted Gioia Below is the second and final part of jazz.com's history of New Orleans music in 100 tracks. ...
Whitfield, Mark (Adrian) posted in Encyclopedia August 20, 09Guitarist Mark Whitfield’s advanced harmonic sensibility has enabled him to perform in styles which include hard bop,...
The Best Jazz Tracks for April posted in The Jazz.com Blog April 30, 08If I told you that Nicholas Payton had decided to feature the song “Chinatown” on his new CD (Into the Blue), you mig...
Jazz is Worth a Million Words posted in The Jazz.com Blog April 09, 09Our collection of track reviews on jazz.com is now approaching the one million word mark. It gives me a twinge of ca...
Jazz Report from Montreal posted in The Jazz.com Blog July 15, 09Jazz.com’s arnold jay smith has been to the Montreal Jazz Festival so many times, he lost count long ago. But, as he...
Easley, Bill posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Easley, Bill, Tenor, Alto and Soprano Saxophones, Clarinet, and Bass Clarinet, Flute, Alto Flute and piccolo; b. Olea...
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