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Nik Payton

About Me

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Music:

Member Since: 10/12/2006
Band Website: www.nikpayton.com
Band Members: Andy Kuc - Guitar/Spanish Guitar, Richard Busiakiewicz - Piano, Dave Green - Bass, Steve Brown or John Sutton - Drums
Influences:

Ben Webster,Don Byas,Coleman Hawking,Johnny Hodges,Benny Carter,Gene Ammons,Sonny Rollins,Arnett Cobb,Ike Quebec,Joshua Redman,Branford Marsalis,James Carter,John Coltrane, too many names to put here.
Sounds Like: Ben Webster, Scott Hamilton, Don Byas, Johnny Hodges, Coleman Hawkins, Bob Wilber, Gene Ammons, Kenny Davern .....
Record Label: Arbors Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Comic Relief

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Posted by on Tue, 10 Mar 2009 08:04:00 GMT

Social commenting!

Hi,I've written some new blogs on my site regarding things like the importance of Hank Moody and the 2008 Presidential debate! Go and have a read!Best,Nik
Posted by on Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:00:00 GMT

NEW CD OUT!

My new CD 'Swinging the Changes' (Arbors Jazz ARCD 19358) is finally out! It features myself with Bob Wilber and my London quartet. At the moment it is available from Arbors Jazz but will probably be ...
Posted by on Tue, 15 Jul 2008 06:53:00 GMT

Offensive ranting!

I'm writing all my blogs over at http://nikpayton.com/blog but I thought I'd let you know about the latest one. While I was in the UK just now, I heard a topic on the radio about children's education ...
Posted by on Wed, 28 May 2008 14:03:00 GMT

NEW BLOG!

I've got a new blog at the website. I'll be posting blogs there from now on, so head over there and have a look, leave comments, discuss the price of carrots etc.Cheers, Nik
Posted by on Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:24:00 GMT

Hectic - the way it should be

Hi,It's been a while since I wrote anything. My excuse is that I've hardly been home (I've been on the road pretty much non-stop since the end of July) - but then I take my Mac with me .... so that do...
Posted by on Wed, 12 Sep 2007 05:22:00 GMT

Challenges

There are some musicians who are happy to always play within their abilities. In fact, they don't understand why you would put yourself in a position of looking bad when you can play tunes you know in...
Posted by on Wed, 30 May 2007 04:55:00 GMT

England

It's odd, the things you miss when living abroad. Apart from the obvious, family, Tetley's tea and Marmite are at the top of the list. In fact, I'm off to stock up on them shortly - my supply in Brazi...
Posted by on Sat, 26 May 2007 03:27:00 GMT

Hello

I've just got off the phone with a friend of mine who was very insistent that I start writing a blog. I pointed out to him that there are very few people who would read it but as I've spent most of th...
Posted by on Tue, 15 May 2007 12:19:00 GMT