Jazz
"When Louis Armstrong is playing, it's as if he's speaking a language to us in a manner that we've never heard before, yet it sounds so familiar. He spoke a language that was universal, one that had no boundaries whether racial, cultural, or otherwise."
---Nicholas Payton
Nicholas Payton is one of today's great young trumpet players who always achieves something exciting and different on each recording he does.. On Dear Louis, a tribute to the great Louis Armstrong, Nicholas swings with a big band and brings a new twist to tunes made popular by Satchmo. Dear Louis features guest vocalists Dr. John & Diane Reeves, Nicholas's touring band, and a burnin’ twelve piece big band with arrangements personally penned by Nicholas. |
