NICHOLAS PAYTON

DIZZY'S CLUB / MAY 7-10

New Orleans trumpeter Nicholas Payton is one of jazz's most fiercely original and intellectually uncompromising voices. The son of bassist Walter Payton, he began playing trumpet at age four and was performing professionally by ten, immersed from the beginning in the rich cultural world of New Orleans brass-band and jazz tradition. He won a GRAMMY Award in 1997 alongside trumpet legend Doc Cheatham for their playing on "Stardust," but Nicholas has consistently pushed his artistry far beyond any single tradition: his recorded output encompasses solo piano albums, an orchestral work commissioned by the Czech National Symphony, and Sketches of Spain (BMF, 2013), recorded with the Basel Symphony Orchestra. A multi-instrumentalist and bandleader of commanding presence, Payton brings both the depth of the New Orleans tradition and the boldness of a genuinely independent musical thinker. Four nights at Dizzy's. CLR