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.
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Rumble In the Great Lakes (Best of the Detroit Jazz Fest 2007)
The New Orleans Social Club
Sing Me Back Home
DIZZY GILLESPIE ALL STAR BIG BAND
I'm BeBoppin' Too
THE SOULJAZZ ORCHESTRA
Rising Sun
ANGELO MICHAJLOV (Performed by Petra Cernocka and The Karl Vlach Orchestra)
Saxana
THE MATT SAVAGE TRIO
Hot Ticket
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