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Another song off Nicholas Payton’s previously posted complete album Payton’s Place (1998), which also features Wynton Marsalis, Roy Hargrove and Joshua Redman.

This is Paraphernalia by Wayne Shorter, originally released in Miles in the Sky (1968), listen here to the original.

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The San Francisco JAZZ Collective play their Collective Overture in Warsaw, 2006.

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Nicholas Payton’s complete album Payton’s Place (1998), featuring guest musicians Wynton Marsalis, (trumpet on tracks 2, 10), Roy Hargrove (trumpet on tracks 2, 8) and saxophonist Joshua Redman (tenor sax on track 4).

Nicholas Payton caught my ear when I first heard Concentric Circles, track 5 in this album, from this post on tumblr.

  1. Zigaboogaloo (Payton)
  2. The Three Trumpeteers (Payton)
  3. Back to the Source (Payton)
  4. A Touch of Silver (Payton)
  5. Concentric Circles (Payton)
  6. Li’l Duke’s Strut (Payton)
  7. Time Travelling (Payton)
  8. With a Song in My Heart (Hart, Rogers)
  9. Paraphernalia (Shorter)
  10. Brownie à la Mode (Payton)
  11. People Make the World Go Round (Bell, Creed)
  12. The Last Goodbye (Bell, Creed, Payton)

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gravity-burst:

Concentric Circles - Nicholas Payton

Payton’s Place (1998)

I keep coming back to this over and over again.

That is one sweet, catchy, but not so obvious melody.

Feed on your brains. BAM!

(Source: addison-stone, via degeneratemusic)