Were it not for Buddy Bolden, Bunk Johnson, Louis Armstrong, Freddie Keppard and many others, there would be no Nicholas Payton. “Basically, what I did (on `Gumbo Nouveau’) was take a lot of ...

“Nicholas Payton, who turned 24 on Sept ... His follow-up Verve CD, “Gumbo Nouveau” (in 1996), not only documented the fervor and poetry of his tone but showed him leading a band through ...

Gumbo Nouveau, proves that point. On the CD, he took a well-known New Orleans standard, "When the Saints Go Marching In," and turned it into a more modern ballad. Like many in New Orleans, Payton ...

Nicholas Payton is New Orleans royalty. The son of bassist Walter Payton and a student of jazz patriarch Ellis Marsalis, the trumpet player comes across like a modern-day Satchmo on albums such as ...

Nicholas Payton's Louis Armstrong Centennial ... salutes to Armstrong over the last half-decade. His 1996 album “Gumbo Nouveau” reworked Armstrong-associated tunes into tame, prosaic hard ...

This percolating trio date of brothers from different riff mothers—bassist Peter Washington, drummer Kenny Washington and Nicholas Payton ... 2001) and Gumbo Nouveau (Verve/Polygram, 1995), Payton can ...

In 1996, he recorded Gumbo Nouveau, then collaborated with the legendary trumpeter Doc Cheatham in 1997 for Doc Cheatham and Nicholas Payton. Payton Place, in 1998, as one scribe put it ...

New Orleans trumpet wizard Nicholas Payton rocked Manchester’s stately ... the Crescent City whiz kid served a fresh, tasty musical gumbo, or nouveau gumbo as he called his eclectic style ...

"Pops" Armstrong died in 1971, but two years later a like-minded child was born in New Orleans named Nicholas ... style begun with Gumbo Noveau. Supported by a 14-piece band, Payton takes ...

trumpeter and composer Nicholas Payton, who, from his first album, Gumbo Nouveau, has been a shining light for young jazzers. Ron Carter and Peter Bernstein's Tribute to Jim Hall Ron Carter has ...

For local jazz legend Nicholas Payton, the instrument represents the ... One of his albums, Gumbo Nouveau, proves that point. On the CD, he took a well-known New Orleans standard, "When the ...

Nicholas Payton is the embodiment of every great ... As a leader, he has recorded: From This Moment (1994, Verve); Gumbo Nouveau (1995, Verve); Payton’s Place (1998, Verve); Nick@Night (1999 ...