NICHOLAS PAYTON, trumpet
Vicente Archer, bass
Marcus Gilmore, drums
Daniel Sadownick, percussion
Pianist to be announced
Into the Blue

Into the Blue is Payton's first album to be recorded in his hometown of New Orleans, a personal and musical foundation for the artist. He says, “I feel like this work is an amalgam of every recording I’ve done up until now. In my early recordings, I was developing my voice by addressing the lineage and continuum of jazz music while my last release, Sonic Trance, was an effort to break free from it. With Into the Blue, the approach and the ideas have become more singular and cohesive. I had no agenda in terms of a specific genre or style, only to be true to who I am now.”