A fun mother/daughter hang at the ⁦Blue Note New York⁩ enjoying a Herbie Hancock tribute performed by ⁦Robert Glasper⁩ ⁦Nicholas Payton, Justin Faulkner, ⁦John Ellis⁩, Vicente Archer, and Mike Moreno: 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Essential Saturday Listening Nicholas Payton's THE COUCH SESSIONS 🔥🔥🔥Uplifting, thought provoking and beautiful the whole way through...Been on repeat all day... #BAM #FeedTheFireYes

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Our Brother, #BAM Architect and Master Culture Keeper and Meaning Maker Nicholas Payton , drew and remixed the spirit and work of Louis Armstrong last night at The Kennedy Center with his latest work, “Armstrong by the Delta.” Asante Sana Brother! kennedy-center.org/whats-on/explo… kennedy-center.org/whats-on/festi…

Kidd was a versatile musician, focused primarily on the avant-garde. Nicholas Payton shared, he was “equally at home with the languages of Charlie Parker, Coltrane, and Ornette” & “he was Stevie Wonder’s first call when he needed a musical director for a horn section in New Orleans.”

3. Kidd Jordan performing in 1976 with his Improvisational Arts Quintet. Clyde Kerr Jr. on trumpet, Alvin Fielder on drums, Alvin Thomas on sax, and London Branch on bass. 1976 (reposted from Nicholas Payton)

thanks, but i don’t play jazz. #blackamericanmusic #BAM

San Francisco! Get your tix asap, they won’t last! Nicholas Payton Otis McDonald keysjazzbistro.com/upcoming-shows/

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"To me, it doesn’t matter how much I’m stretching out or how avant-garde the context is; that dance sensibility is always implied. It’s always here, in my mind." - Nicholas Payton #BAM

It was an honor to host Sir Nicholas Payton at Emmet’s Place this week. Trumpet mastery at its finest! Here we are trading a bit on rhythm changes… full video of Oleo on Youtube :) . Nicholas Payton #PhilipNorris #JoeDyson

Nicholas Payton 🎺 transcription performed on a Bong 🎺 “Tiger Rag” Nicholas Payton

Tyreek McDole - The Creator Has A Master Plan (feat. Tomoki Sanders) is OUT NOW❗️ #TyreekMcDole #TomokiSanders #BAM #BlackAmericanMusic open.spotify.com/track/0vtHIXN3…

Berklee College of Music …you fired Nicholas Payton but you still hire rapists/racists/sexists in your institution huh…seriously???… firing Nicholas Payton is the WORST decision you ever made, Berklee… you had the CULTURE now you’ve lost the CULTURE…🤦🏽 Nicholas Payton is the GOAT❗️🐐 #BAM

111 years ago today, the intergalactic bandleader Sun Ra was born. Today we celebrate his cosmic legacy. ✨ 📽️: A clip from 1974’s Space Is The Place via The Jazz Estate #sunra #spaceistheplace #jazzisdead

show the proof of where i ever called jews “vile predators.” half a dozen articles make this wild claim and zero proof to back it up.

When Ms. Rachel and I win “Antisemite of the Week” in the same month that should tell you how meaningless the label has become…

As you get older, you should start to realize that everything in the media is merely a psychological experiment being conducted