A true rising star, 24-year-old trumpeter Nicholas Payton has laid significant groundwork at radio and retail with his 3 previous Verve releases (including the 1998 Grammy Award-winner for "Best Jazz Instrumental, Solo," Doc Cheatham & Nicholas Payton). Nicholas's evolving musical sensibilities come through loud and clear on Payton's Place, an album of joyous swingers, fierce hard bop and New Orleans-inflected jazz. Special guests: Roy Hargrove, Wynton Marsalis and Joshua Redman.
1) Zigaboogaloo
2) The Three Trumpeteers
3) Back to the Source
4) A Touch of Silver
5) Concentric Circles
6) Li'l Duke's Strut
7) Time Traveling
8) With a Song in My Heart
9) Paraphernalia
10) Brownie a la Mode
11) People Make the World Go Round
12) The Last Goodbye