One of the new stars of the trumpet of the 90, Nicholas Payton combines references to its heritage of New Orleans with the hard bop and musicality of the Young Lions. Payton, was born in New Orleans in 1973, and grew up in Treme, in the vicinity of Armstrong Park, he began to 4 years in a miniature trumpet presented by the father, the bassist Walter Payton. In December, he has participated in

trials and soon the junior NOCCA (New Orleans Center for Creative Arts), the Marsalis family. It was Wynton who gave the first chance at professional Payton, who had 16 years, recommending it to the pianist Marcus Roberts, in New York. A year later, he went on a tribute to Louis Armstrong alongside jazzmen the carrying of Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry, Harry "Sweets" Edison, Freddie Hubbard and Red Rodney. Payton was formed in New Orleans Center for Creative Arts. In 1992, came out on tour with Marcus Roberts and traveled to Europe in 1994 with "The Jazz Futures II." They also toured with Elvin Jones and worked with jazz in the Program of Lincoln Center. His debut solo occurred in 1995 in "From this moment." The following year he released "Gumbo Nouveau", where recriava the classic mould of his music on the streets of the Crescent City as "When the saints go marching in" and "St.James Infirmary." Its third CD, "Payton's Place", which brings together the three main trompetistas generation of neo-bop: Wynton Marsalis, Roy Hargrove and Payton and-tenor sax, Joshua Redman, was released by Verve in 1997. In 1999 held a musical project that homenageava Louis Armstrong