Nicholas Payton – The Couch Sessions (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Nicholas Payton - The Couch Sessions (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download

Nicholas Payton – The Couch Sessions (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:10 minutes | 1,45 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Smoke Sessions

Music has the power to heal, a fact that has never been as relevant as it has over the challenging last few years. On his captivating new album, “The Couch Sessions,” the brilliant multi-instrumentalist and composer Nicholas Payton provides a session of musical therapy that draws on the compositions and words of some of the musics most visionary artists. The latest in a series that he has recorded pairing him with dream rhythm sections, Payton is joined by bassist Buster Williams and drummer Lenny White, who not only have forged one of the most distinctive rhythm tandems in recent decades but have also worked with many of the legendary artists to whom this album is dedicated. I decided to use Buster and Lenny for their shared history, Payton says, not only working with each other but also with my favorite artist ever Miles Davis. There are a lot of connections between the artists on the album and the lineages that they either came out of or were integral in starting. Working with Buster and Lenny together was a bucket list item for me. Throughout “The Couch Sessions,” Nicholas Payton and his stellar trio play therapist to listeners in need of some vital musical counseling. In these uncertain new times, the importance of music and the arts has come even more to the forefront, he says. With this album, I wanted to speak to music as a healing force, an essential source of light in our lives.
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Nicholas Payton – Smoke Sessions (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Nicholas Payton – Smoke Sessions (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:22 minutes | 1,34 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Smoke Sessions

Every musician has that short list of musicians they’ve always dreamed of working with to bring a recording to life. For multi-instrumentalist and composer Nicholas Payton, one of those dreams has come true with his latest album Smoke Sessions.

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Nicholas Payton – Relaxin’ with Nick (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Nicholas Payton – Relaxin’ with Nick (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:58:46 minutes | 1,46 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Smoke Sessions

When Nicholas Payton enters the recording studio, he uses that environment to the full extent of its capabilities, as he’s abundantly revealed on a series of groundbreaking releases that showcase his gifts as a producer as well as his virtuosic trumpet playing and multi-instrumental versatility. At the same time, Payton has evolved a singular approach to live performance, supplementing his breathtaking voice on the trumpet with his own accompaniment on piano and Fender Rhodes. On Relaxin’ With Nick, Payton is joined by the renowned rhythm section of bassist Peter Washington and drummer Kenny Washington– no relation, though their incredible chemistry highlights a bond as tight as family – for a stellar live set captured at Smoke Jazz & Supper Club.

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Nicholas Payton – Smoke Sessions (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Nicholas Payton - Smoke Sessions (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download

Nicholas Payton – Smoke Sessions (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 20:25 minutes | 384 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Smoke Sessions (Remixed)

Though it’s never simple (or advisable) to pin Nicholas Payton down to a particular genre or style, the renowned trumpeter/keyboardist/composer’s two recent releases for Smoke Sessions Records have found him in relatively traditional acoustic trio mode. He was accompanied by the powerhouse rhythm section of bassist Peter Washington and drummer Kenny Washington on 2019’s live Relaxin’ With Nick, then with the generation spanning trio of drummer Karriem Riggins and legendary bassist Ron Carter on 2021’s acclaimed Smoke Sessions.
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