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Fierce Swing, Deep Grooves and Even a Little Singing
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Friday June 06, 2008
Growing up in a jazz family in New Orleans, the trumpeter Nicholas Payton absorbed a host of lessons about melody, rhythm and the implicit arrangement between an artist and his audience. And over the last decade or so he has weighed those lessons against the modernist imperative of open-ended abstraction. Now, in his mid-30s, Mr. Payton still seems to be seeking an arable middle ground, the zone where post-bop evasiveness mingles with soulful reassurance.
He had some success striking that balance on Wednesday night at the Jazz Standard, leading a responsive quintet. The first set featured a roughly equal proportion of forward-tilt swing and in-the-pocket groove, along with enough harmonic feints to keep all parties on their toes. It was bookended with two brief vocal turns by Mr. Payton, which he took with feeling, though he’s demonstrably not a trained singer.
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