Biography
New Orleans-born trumpeter, keyboardist, and singer Nicholas Payton is a maverick performer with a sound steeped in acoustic post-bop, whose music often finds him exploring genres beyond the confines of the jazz tradition. Payton garnered early attention with albums like 1995's From This Moment and 1996's Gumbo Nouveau. He gained wider acclaim playing on the soundtrack to Robert Altman's film Kansas City, winning a Grammy for his 1997 collaborati...Read more