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	Podcast:		Jazz Fest Minutes
	Episode:		Jazz Fest Minutes: Making Connections With Multi-Instrumentalist Nicholas Payton
	Category:		Government & Organizations
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	Publish Date:		2013-05-04 12:09:16
	Description:		Nicholas Payton is one brilliant musician. He plays just about everything on the bandstand very well. He’s best known for his trumpet work but is also a dynamic keyboard player, and even manages to play superbly on both at the same time. In recent years Payton has added another tool to his kit: singing. “When I was around eleven years old I was singing in the Baptist church choir. I used to go to Austerlitz Baptist Church, Uptown. And that’s really where I started singing a lot and developed a love for it. But, you know, being so focused on being an instrumentalist I kind of really didn’t pay much deference to it. But, in recent years, and particularly because so many of the trumpet players that I love also sing, like Louis Armstrong — obviously that’s a big tradition here for most trumpet players to sing. It’s kind of just what everyone does.” Especially when they write their own lyrics. “I think the thing that really brought it back for me was I started writing tunes with lyrics,
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