Dexter Payne

Reedman Dexter Payne is not a straightforward musician to categorize. The Denver, CO-based clarinetist and alto/baritone saxophonist (who in addition has performed harmonica, flute, and percussion sometimes) has performed jazz thoroughly, but he in addition has performed everything from electrical blues to folk-rock to globe and Latin music. Over time, Payne’s associations have got ranged from acoustic nation bluesman Barbecue Bob to Brazilian percussionist Thiago de Mello towards the past due folk-rock/blues vocalist Judy Roderick (who was simply Payne’s musical partner for 16 years and, unfortunately, died of the coronary attack in 1992 because of problems from diabetes). Payne and Roderick performed together within a golf swing band known as the Big Sky Mudflaps within the ’70s, and in 1983 they shaped an R&B music group known as Judy Roderick & the Forbears. Payne in addition has been noticed in African pop configurations. Payne was created on July 5, 1951, in Denver, CO, where in fact the clarinet became his initial instrument. Payne continued to understand the alto and baritone saxes aswell, and he continues to be quoted as stating that he was happy he added those saxophones to his arsenal because he provides discovered that “the possibilities for clarinet players in contemporary music are relatively limited.” non-etheless, the clarinet provides performed a prominent function in Payne’s musical background — and whether he was embracing the clarinet or even a saxophone, Payne has already established a reputation to be extremely lyrical and melodic. The reedman includes a long set of immediate or indirect affects; within the jazz world, they will have ranged from clarinetists Artie Shaw, Pal DeFranco, and Benny Goodman to tenor saxophonists Stan Getz, Zoot Sims, as well as the seminal Lester “The Prez” Little to alto saxophonists Paul Desmond, Benny Carter, and Johnny Hodges. In the meantime, on baritone sax, Payne gets a whole lot of motivation from Gerry Mulligan. But despite having those jazz affects, Payne hasn’t regarded as himself a full-time jazz musician; rather, he offers described himself like a musician who occasionally takes on jazz (including golf swing, bop, awesome jazz, and Brazilian jazz) but can be interested in other styles of music. Payne offers said that, over time, he became increasingly more thinking about Latin music, specifically Brazilian music; he offers journeyed in Latin America thoroughly, and it had been during a stop by at Brazil in 1997 that Payne first fulfilled Thiago de Mello. Payne and de Mello (who was raised within the Amazon area of Brazil but offers lived in NEW YORK because the ’60s) became friends and performed together extensively within the 2000s, becoming a member of forces around the albums Motivation (a 2003 documenting that also included Brazilian guitarist Antonio Mello), Another Sense (that was co-produced by Brazil’s well-known Arnaldo DeSouteiro in 2005 and released on DeSouteiro’s Rio de Janeiro-based Jazz Train station label), Drive Tum Derrei (Chorando e Sambando) (which de Mello created for his Gau label in 2006 and 2007), and Our Time and energy to Remember.