Nik Payton

I have a quick question about the idea of writing posts in 2 languages. Para o versão em portuguese, ver em baixo.
Visitors to my site, Facebook page, Twitter etc are fairly evenly split between English speakers and Portuguese speakers. My question is this: Should I write articles in English or Portuguese with a translated copy [...]

After an extremely frustrating few days, I’ve finally finished the ‘Recordings’ page and put up some audio. To cut a very long and tedious story short, I could not work out how to link up the audio files using a plugin that I have. Anyway, with more help from Dino@ewebscapes I (he) sorted it 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 on iTunes and other online stores soon. I’m going to be putting up some tracks on the ‘Recordings’ page [...]

It seems the reputation of jazz saxophonists has reached the literary world at last. One of the books I am currently reading is ‘Brother Odd’ by Dean Koontz and I quote;
“Saxophone players tend to have an attitude”, I said. “I know a saxophonist who tore a guitar out of another musician’s hands and shot the [...]

I flew over from Brazil on Thursday and, as usual, had raydio 4 on the raydio wen I was drivin out of Lundun. One of the subjeks on the program was wether Inglish shood becum fonetik as in sum uther youropian countries (sorry, had to spell that properly for any younger readers!!). Aparently, one in [...]

I’ve just heard that Bob Florence died Thursday night, 5 days before his 76th birthday.

I’ve lived in Brazil now for 5 years. When I came here I spoke virtually no Portuguese whatsoever. Hello, please and thank you was about it. Obviously to make my self understood I had to learn, very quickly. After a year or so I could hold a conversation quite well and although my vocabulary wasn’t [...]

I’ve had a few emails from musicians who didn’t really know much about the tools and ideas I talked about in my last newsletter. I thought I was well behind in this new movement but it seems there are many musicians, especially in the jazz world, who aren’t sure what is going on. I’m going [...]

It is with great sadness that I report the passing of Jimmy Giuffre. He died on April 24th, 2 days before his 87th birthday.
Jimmy was one of the great individualists of the clarinet, always inventing and thinking outside the norm. His later, free playing unfortunately took him out of the mainstream jazz world but he [...]