From This Moment by Nicholas Payton (CD, Feb-1995, Verve)

Album Features
UPC:	731452707321
Artist:	Nicholas Payton
Format:	CD
Release Year:	1995
Record Label:	Verve
Genre:	Jazz Instrument, Trumpet

Track Listing
1. In the Beginning
2. You Stepped Out of a Dream
3. Fair Weather
4. Maria's Melody
5. It Could Happen to You
6. Little Re-Re
7. From This Moment On
8. Rhonda's Smile
9. Sleepwalker, The
10. Blues for My Brother
11. Taking a Chance on Love
12. To the Essential One

Details
Playing Time:	66 min.
Producer:	Delfeayo Marsalis
Distributor:	Universal Distribution
Recording Type:	Studio
Recording Mode:	Stereo
SPAR Code:	n/a

Album Notes
Personnel: Nicholas Payton (trumpet); Monte Croft (vibraphone); Mulgrew Miller (piano); Mark Whitfield (guitar); Reginald Veal (bass); Lewis Nash (drums).Recorded at Systems 2, Brooklyn, New York on September 11-12, 1994.Personnel: Nicholas Payton (trumpet); Mark Whitfield (guitar).Audio Mixers: Delfeayo Marsalis; Mark Gross .Recording information: Systems 2, Brooklyn, NY (09/11/1994/09/12/1994).Photographers: James Minchin; Jimmy Katz.The young trumpeter Nicholas Payton is featured on this CD as the only horn in a sextet also including guitarist Mark Whitfield, pianist Mulgrew Miller and vibraphonist Monte Croft. Best are Payton's melodic and very mature statements on the veteran standards "You Stepped Out of a Dream," "It Could Happen to You," "From This Moment On" and "Taking a Chance on Love." His six originals are less memorable, but overall, this is a pleasing date that finds the trumpeter showing a great deal of potential. Payton's tone, mixing aspects of Freddie Hubbard, Wynton Marsalis and New Orleans jazz in a post-bop setting, is quite appealing. ~ Scott Yanow

Editorial Reviews
...FROM THIS MOMENT reveals the depth of his talent both as a player and composer....Perhaps Payton's strongest suit is his fat forthright tone....at once an energetic and risk-taking young jazzman and a wise and intuitive old spirit...
JazzTimes (19950601)

...`He's frightening,' says the 89-year-old trumpet legend [Doc Cheatham]. `He's gonna scare all the trumpet players.' ....[FROM THIS MOMENT] highlights the trumpeter's pure tone and clarity of ideas, along with his natural penchant for melody...Payton shows great promise on this first outing as a leader...
Down Beat (19950301)