2004-01-24
Nicholas Payton’s first album for Warner Brothers becomes the first bold jazz statement of 2004. Sonic Trance immediately harkens to mind Bitches Brew-era Miles Davis, with its echoed trumpet and loose psychedelic ambience. The album further ventures into Afro-beat, reggae rants, funk-fusion, trip-hop and other controlled-substance craziness.Payton garnered a Grammy-nomination for his 1997 collaboration with then 90-year-old trumpet great Doc Cheatham, an album also available in the WYCE library.
Houston Person
The Melody Lingers On
Various Artists
ReBop: The Savoy Remixes
THE CHARLES MINGUS SEXTET
Charles Mingus Sextet with Eric Dolphy - Cornell 1964
Lewis Porter and Phil Scarff Group
Three Minutes to Four
MICROSCOPIC SEPTET
Friday the 13th The Micros Play Monk
NICHOLAS PAYTON
Sketches of Spain
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