Payton's Place

Nicholas Payton | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 9, 1998)
• Original Release Date: June 9, 1998
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Polygram Records
• ASIN: B000007OWR
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #162,823 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sizzling!, January 6, 2001

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G. Sawaged - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Payton's Place (Audio CD)

This album is hot. Sizzling! This is Payton's 3rd album as leader of his band...pianist Anthony Wonsey, drummer Adonis Rose, bassist Reuben Rogers, and sax player Tim Warfield. On "The Three Trumpeteers" Nicholas is joined by Wynton Marsalis and Roy Hargrove for a swinging time. And Joshua Redman joins in on "A Touch of Silver" Nine of the eleven tracks were written by Payton, showing he can write just as well as he can play. He says in the liner notes that he wanted to take some chances on this record, give it a loose feel, like on some of Mile's records, and to show that jazz can be a lot of fun. Well I think he has succeeded very nicely on this album.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Like a comet, August 26, 2001

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This review is from: Payton's Place (Audio CD)

Having just been privileged to see and hear Nicholas Payton live (with the Ray Brown trio), I can tell you that he is the new jazz trumpet star. It is all here-- the fat, powerful, buttery, singing tones of Clifford Brown, Fats Navarro, Lee Morgan, the fire of Freddie Hubbard and Dizzy Gillespie---and (amazingly) he is still evolving. "Payton's Place" not only gives you a taste of Payton's range(bop, hard bop, blues, ballads, etc), and his outstanding articulation and invention, it features "Three Trumpeteers", Payton's summit meeting with Roy Hargrove and Wynton Marsalis. (A pity Terence Blanchard was not part of it!)

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Contemporary Jazz at its hottest, June 9, 2006

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Duncan MacLeod "Green Highlander" (Lincoln, VT) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Payton's Place (Audio CD)

Those who've been misled into thinking "contemporary" jazz has to be that bland, backgroundy "smooth jazz" of the canned stations using that term--welcome to the world of REAL contemporary jazz! Nicholas Payton's Clifford-Brown-inspired trumpet playing--plus his kicking, sometimes funky, originals--will give the serious jazz listener plenty of excitement--musical excitement that is. And when he jams with the likes of giants Roy Hargrove and Wynton Marsalis in "The Three Trumpeters," he more than holds his own.

The band's style fits the "hard-bop" appellation for the most part, but there's plenty that's new and interesting--especially the very first cut, called "Zigaboogaloo." There are nods to two of the great figures of the Twentieth Century: "Brownie a la Mode" (trumpeter Clifford Brown) and "A Touch of Silver" (pianist Horace Silver). Then there is the teasingly playful "People Make The World Go Round," that may remind you of something sung by Bobby McFerin. There are a couple of slower cuts I sometimes skip over (only because I prefer up-tempo stuff), but the rest of the album is superb.

This is one of many contemporary albums I can enthusiastically recommend--even to moldy-fig types who think nothing really good has come out of the younger generation of players.