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Nicholas Payton
US trumpet player and multi-instrumentalist
New Orleans, United States • b. 1973-09-26
Nicholas Payton is credited on 294 releases across 119 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1989–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
294
Pressings credited
119
Albums
5
Decades active
35
In collections
Credited work
294 releases · 119 albums · active 1989–2025
- Performance · 638
- Other credits · 74
- Production · 28
- Engineering · 3
- Mastering · 2
Studios: Avatar Studios · Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey · The Hey Hey Club · Points West Recording
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Electric Circus
2002
Letters From The Atlantic
2025
Let Love
2019
Beautifully Human: Words And Sounds Vol. 2
2004
Trey Anastasio
2002
For The Beauty Of Wynona
1993
Cowboy Bebop: Vitaminless = カウボーイビバップ: ビタミンレス
1998
A Gift To Pops
2021
With You In Mind
2017
Emotions
2003
Payton's Place
1998
Big Band
1996
Jazz For Joy: A Verve Christmas Album
1996
Verve - Next Generation Volume 1
1995
Ske-Dat-De-Dat The Spirit Of Satch
2014
The Bright Mississippi
2009
Jimmy Smith's Finest Hour
2000
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Jimmy Smith
- Elvin Jones
- SFJazz Collective
- Greg Osby
- Dr. John
- Carl Allen & Manhattan Projects
- Will Downing
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