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.
THE BIG THREE TRIO
We Got Rhythm
VARIOUS ARTISTS
Next Stop...Soweto, Vol. 3: Giants, Ministers and Makers -- Jazz in South Aftrica 1963-1984
PONCHO SANCHEZ
PSYCHEDELIC BLUES
Ted Nash & Odeon
La Espada de La Noche
BRUCE KAPHAN QUARTET
Bruce Kaphan Quartet
WYNTON MARSALIS & MARCUS ROBERTS
TOGETHER AGAIN
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