Browse: Smoke Sessions (label)

Nicholas Payton emerges from the pandemic blur with creative energy to spare and attributes we’ve come to expect; chops and taste as one of his generation’s finer trumpeters, gestures of contextual/semantical... — Downbeat, February 2023, 3 and a half out of 5 stars More…

Overall this is classy, beautifully played jazz of the highest order, and with a level of perfection that many aspire to but few attain. — Jazzwise, November 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Payton showcases the timelessness of Carter and Coleman’s skill —their ineffable capacity to slot into new combinations and compositions with the open-eared willingness to swing. Theirs is the... — Downbeat, December 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…