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Nicholas Payton (born September 26, 1973) is a jazz trumpet player from New Orleans, Louisiana. The son of bassist and sousaphonist Walter Payton, he took up the trumpet at the age of four and by the time he was nine he was playing in the Young Tuxedo Brass Band alongside his father. Encouraged by Wynton Marsalis, who was himself involved in New Orleans' jazz and brass band music in his youth, Payton played semi-professionally throughout his grade school years and at the age of 12 played with the All Star Jazz Band at festivals througout the United States and Europe....

Asie Payton (1937-1997) was a blues musician who lived most of his life in Holly Ridge, Mississippi, in the Mississippi Delta. He sang and played the guitar, but made his living as a farmer. Near the end of his life he recorded one album, Worried, for the Fat Possum Records label, which was released after his death. .