Both Washington's are on their A-Game, and they have to be, as Payton upshifts from the bluesy smooth title track to the funky, over-driven Fender modulations and swirling tempo shifts of Benny Golson's soulful "Stablemates" (which just might encapsulate all jazz has to offer on this feisty date at Smoke Jazz & Supper Club in uptown NYC), to "Eight," his too cool tune from 2014's Numbers (Paytone Records)įound originally on Payton's otherworldly Afro-Caribbean Mixtape (CD Baby, 2017), a sample of Cuban trumpet master Manuel "Guajiro" Mirabal, propels the rolling cha-cha. Given all that, Relaxin' with Nick throws new color on the casual trio setting, and what else would you expect from a fleet, forward thinker like Payton?Īs he's also proven with his game defining recordings such as 2017's Afro-Caribbean Mixtape (Paytone Records), Dear Louis ( Verve/Universal, 2001) and Gumbo Nouveau (Verve/Polygram, 1995), Payton can invoke jazz's then and now on command and not sound moored or owing to either.
In this setting Payton is a quartet unto himself, sailing with his trumpet while playing elegant piano/Fender Rhodes, electronics, and the occasional rap/vocal that we needn't discuss pro or con. This percolating trio date of brothers from different riff mothersbassist Peter Washington, drummer Kenny Washington and Nicholas Paytonis a bit misleading.
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