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Often times you will suffer a great deal, because it’ll make other people feel uncomfortable about Nicholas Payton cause the band serves as a pad underneath my ide- their ineptitude; their unwillingness to be authentic. Jazz At Lincoln Center, Dizzy’s Club as. If you speak about what’s true and how things February 22-25 really are, that can make people very uncomforta- JI: Could you talk about some of the mentors with ble, and you run a risk of not necessarily being too whom you’ve played, who may have shared with liked. It’s another thing entirely to deny what you NP: I’ve been doing some things with my own you some advice or words of wisdom? felt to be true in your heart, to do something for group, a couple of European joints, did Asia, did someone else’s sake for some kind of other gain, be some stuff in New York. Last weekend I did a NP: Years ago I was hanging out with Elvin Jones it monetary or whatever, and then to not have to festival in Kansas City. So I’ve been pretty active when I was in this band. It was my first extensive come through … also having to deal with the fact with my band and doing some other things as well tour through Europe. On the planes they would that you weren’t true to who you were. You know, … some teaching things. I did a residency at Thelo- give you a meal and these miniature bottles of that’s something I’m just not willing to do. I don’t nious Monk Institute … did some things over the wine. I thought it was kind of hip, so I started col- care how rough it gets. I’ve dealt with a lot of stuff. summer as well, like a Stanford jazz workshop, and lecting them. I didn’t drink at the time so I would some other stuff. I completed a record, a vocal put them in my trumpet case. Elvin noticed that I JI: Talk about your commitment to quality and record—my first vocal album with some special was collecting these wines. So, one morning, at integrity. guests. It’s the first project on which I’ve actually like 6:00 AM, at the airport or something, he asked, played all the instruments throughout the recording “Hey, you got those wines?” I said “Yeah!” He NP: For me good enough is not good enough. I’m - piano, bass, drums, drum machine, various key- said “Come follow me to the bathroom.” So he always seeking to try to push forward. I’m not boards. asked me for the wine. I’m thinking “OK.” He afraid to get my hands dirty - to do what’s required cracks one open and he said, “Aren’t you going to in order to try to create great art, what I feel is great JI: What was the process in moving from concept drink some?” I said, “No, I don’t really drink.” And art. I just feel like a lot of people within this indus- to sound? he kind of stared at me, like just kind of scowled. try believe that good enough is OK. You know the He was like, “Hmm. Somethin’ ain’t right about amount of mediocrity that is passable or that’s NP: Well when I did my record, Into the Blue, I somebody who don’t do nothing wrong.” That put acceptable, is disturbing. had just bought a home studio set up. It was the a lot on my mind—just thinking about living in a first time I went into the studio having supplied society, particularly in a genre of music whose JI: Could you talk about leadership? musicians with instrumental demos of the material. boundaries have become so stiff in terms of the I found it to be quite cool because as opposed to people and the expectations of what one is sup- NP: You have to know yourself in order to lead sheets of music, they came into the session with a posed to do.