Nicholas Payton

Oh, that's right.

Which is Nicholas Payton and Butcher Brown.

So they have taken on the bold move of not only taking on a cover of what is probably the best regarded jazz album of all time, but also what is probably the second best regarded jazz album of all time.

And that would be Any Guesses, Kinda Blue and A Love Supreme.

Thank you.

You are listening to the 95 BFM Jazz Show, brought to you by San Ray.

Before the break, you were listening to Nicholas Payton and Butcher Brown.

That was awesome.

Not gonna let that happen again.

I'm gonna transition from the UK over to New York for another jazz one after this from Tomoki Sanders, Nicholas Payton and Melanie Charles.

Those three all teamed up for a new single a few weeks old.

Hey, I'm Babe Martin and you're listening to 95BFM.

Haven't quite sunk my teeth into the new record yet.

They dropped October 9th.

And that nice long one from Tamuki Sanders, Nicholas Payton and Melanie Charles out of New York.

Jazz is just a game.

Th- there are, there are, there are musician figures who talk, and sometimes they're interesting just because of their sheer personality.

I'm thinking of someone like Nicholas Payton, of what he says is barking mad, but half of it is, like, really insightful, you know?

Right.

Um, and then there's someone like Mel Tome- Mel Torme, and you're like, this guy is, like, a musicologist.

Flip the sip.

Nicholas Payton, welcome to The Career Musician, plain and simple.

Nomad, what's happening, bro?

All right, man.

The message is getting out there.

And everybody, here we go.

Hashtag BAM by Nicholas Payton.

I love the box.

[instrumental jazz music]And that's music by Reuben Rogers, and the name of that cut is entitled Philip.

Features Reuben Rogers on bass, Ron Blake on tenor sax, Nicholas Payton trumpet, Aaron Goldberg on piano, Gregory Hutchinson on drums, Adam Cruz on steel drum.

Now, Reuben Rogers, this guy is a bassist, composer, and educator.

Worked with Wynton Marsalis and Roy Hargrove, among others.

Man, I saw...

I got to see him at the Charles H. Wright Museum with Geri Allen, Nicholas Payton, Bob Hurst, and Wes Anderson.

What?

That was killing a...

It was released in 1969.

Mean Mr. Mustard, followed up by Nicholas Payton and Butcher Brown.

doing the Miles Davis tune, Freddy Freeloader, off of the Kinda Blue classic album.

Corto Alto there, with I Just I Don't Know, comes from a brand new album, Some Small Fortune.

And there are some artists that have gone so far, including, I think, you know, including Duke Ellington and Miles Davis that, you know, they didn't like the word jazz.

I think of Nicholas Payton, who puts in his writer contracts for his shows.

You cannot use the word jazz in conjunction with me.

He hates the word and that's become part of his soapbox is that jazz is a four letter word.

You know, it's not the end all be all.

And at the end of the day, music is music.

And I think that's what Miles and Nicholas Payton and Duke Ellington are probably getting at is like, let's why put these handcuffs on ourselves and say, well, I'm a jazz musician.

And that means that my music has to sound like this, that the label comes after the fact.

... um, Walter Payton, who was playing bass.

That's Nicholas Payton's dad.

Wow.

Freddy Coleman, who's arguably the greatest New Orleans drummer or w-