photo: James Roderick                                                 Downbeat Magazine 71st Annual Readers Poll voted Dexter in the top 10 clarinet players for 2004 & '06            (see Dec issue) Thank you, Downbeat Readers!!!	THE NEW CD IS HERE!!! Another collaboration with great Brazilian composer Thiago de Mello. More great clarinet music!                    DISK TUM DERREI (say;"disk-TOOM-de-HEY")                      featuring: Haroldo Mauro, Cliff Korman and Helio Alves. Produced by Arnaldo DeSouteiro, Thiago de Mello and Dexter Payne for release on GAU RECORDS and Jazz Station Records (JSR).  Listen now                      Buy it now from Dexofon Records!!! dont miss it! Thiago de Mello & Dexter Payne Dazzle Restaurant in Denver May 22 7&9pm res: 303. 839.5100 presented by KGNU            I wish to express my gratitude to Thiago de Mello, whose compositions, musicianship and friendship have continually and progressively changed my life for the better over the years since we met on a boat in the middle of the Amazon River. The new CD: Disk Tum Derrei as well as Another Feeling in which Thiago invited me to participate, are an inspration and an honor which I value deeply.   Visit his website, and discover more CDs by this prolific and talented composer. Another Feeling and Disk Tum Derrei are also available there. I would be remiss if I did not also acknowledge Arnaldo DeSouteiro, the visionary Brazilian producer who has worked for many years with Thiago, as well as other legendary figures in Brazil and the rest of the world. Arnaldo was instrumental in the conception of these CDs, and there is cause to celebrate as Another Feeling and Disk Tum Derrei are released in Brazil on JSR (Jazz Station Records).                                                                                   -Dexter Payne On the night of KGNU's 30th Anniversary: Thiago will perform at Dazzle Restaurant in Denver May 22, with Dexter and an all-star line-up: Jeff Jenkins (pno), Bijoux Barbosa (bass), Raoul Rossiter (drms) and Wendy Fopeano (vocal). DISK TUM DERREI has been getting regular airplay on KUVO and this will be a celebration of that release - with partial proceeds to KGNU. Both these stations are very dear to musicians. Please support them (and all community radio!)	CDs CALENDAR PRESS HISTORY CONTACT LINKS PRESS KIT BOOKING NEW mp3s! BECO DO CHORO INSTRUCTION LIVE DEMOS Listen to:   Dexter Payne Quartet (Brazilian choro) Beco Do Choro (choro, samba, baiao) Baro Swing ("gypsy jazz")
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	2008 Started with a wild ski tour - playing outdoors for the X Games in Aspen and warming up for De La Soul. Continuing with Jazzoula Fest in Missoula, MT and total inspiration by Buddy DeFranco, Phil Woods, Bucky Pizzarelli, John Allred. Last summer's musical adventures were a blast: Carbondale Art Fair and Telluride Jazz Fest wi Bola Abimbola, as well as Crestone Music fest with Tobatana Marimba. Not to forget a great reunion with the Big Sky Mudflaps, including several illustrious guests: Joan Zen, Huey Lewis and a great violinist from Brooklyn!
	Sept 2006 I performed a most wonderful series of concerts in Brazil with Thiago de Mello and Antonio Mello, in Rio de Janeiro, and also in the "Mostra International de Musica em Olinda"  near Recife, Pernambuco. (see "Inspiration" below) Audiences were great and the crews superb. Lume Arte, the producer of the festival, originates from a great love of music and manifests an impressive blend of vision and attention to detail. I was also invited to gave a workshop for some very talented young reed players and in addition,  performed as a special guest with Sharon Isbin and Thiago de Mello. I love playing Thiago's music, and Sharon always brings performance to a very high level.
	Then in my spare time, I studied with the amazing young "AcariOcamerata" of Acari and sat in with Ney Conceiçao, Marcos Amorim, Fernando Trocados, Eduardo Neves and many others. Saw great musicians everywhere, and a bigger than life show by Ithamara Koorax. As if that was not enough, my friends from new Orleans, Tom McDermott and Evan Christopher were in Rio and we had a chance to hang out, and two great sessions! I gained a wealth of friendship and the "Inspiration" tour truly lived up to its name.                   -Dexter	with Sharon Isbin and Thiago
Inspiration with Antonio and Thiago
	PS- Yes, the Judy Roderick and the Forbears CD really is coming soon...	updated 10/15/07

Listen now	ANOTHER FEELING is here.  Listen and Order yours now direct from Dexofon Records! "Have you ever walked alone through a quiet beautiful woodland and stepped into an open space full of nothing but warm and growing brightness, and felt like nature was a cathedral and you were seated in its front row? Another Feeling sounds just like that: completely, naturally, immaculate and beautiful."    read more...     ALL ABOUT JAZZ - Chris M. Slawecki- Senior Editor "ANOTHER FEELING is an exceptional album... world-class performance and composition!   This album belongs in every music lovers collection." Richard 'Dick' Whetstone Denver, CO terrifically impressed with the whole production... probably the recording of the year for me... so relaxed and low-key, yet play[ed] with such intensity. Thiago has a great spirit; you two are well matched."   Jon Jackson, writer/commentator, Missoula, MT (Hear Jon Jackson on kufm.org:"Jazz Sessions"  2-4pm the last Thurs of every month.)
LISTEN	INSPIRATION   new music from Brasil Brazilian guitar and clarinet music featuring Dexter Payne: clarinet and alto sax Antônio Mello: composer / guitar with special guest artist Thiago de Mello: organic percussion
	um trabalho do altíssimo nível... Proseas de três sábios unidos pela paixâo a música.                (a work of  the highest level ...  The feats of three wise men joined for the passion of music.)  -ArnaldoDeSouteiro, liner notes   read more... " Relaxing and intellectual at the same time, 'Inspiration' might   remind some American ears of the classic Stan Getz/Charlie Byrd   collaboration, 'Jazz Samba'."  -Bret Saunders, Denver Post 2/13/05 ... bossa nova with winning subtlety, fitting together like pieces of an intricate, intimate puzzle ... finally,  a virtuoso musician who really hears the Brazilian whispers, and not just the carnival clamor. -Andy Smetanka (Missoula Independant)             see reviews

	INSPIRATION
listen now!	((+)) 1 Coraçao Latino (Latin Heart) A. Mello 3:24 2 Nordestina N°2 A. Mello 3:23 ((+)) 3 Mais Uma Vez (Once More) K-Ximbinho 3:01 ((+)) 4 Rapsódia in Choro A. Mello 4:32 ((+)) 5 Marte (Mars) A. Mello 2:40 ((+)) 6 Obrigado Paulinho da Viola A. Mello 5:40 ((+)) 7 Infinitivamente A. Mello 4:08 ((+)) 8 Radamés y Pelé A.C. Jobim 4:30 9 Canto Dos Pássaros (Song of the Birds) A. Mello 6:32 ((+)) 10 Inspiration A. Mello 6:28 ((+)) 11 Tema Para K-Ximbinho A. Mello 2:48
	Village Squared by Meg York & Veelah Order online from CD Baby
	Balkan brass band music - wild East European urban rhythms for your dancing/listening pleasure featuring Meg with Jesse Manno, Dave Willey, John Erickson, Dexter Payne
	KAMBENG (Unity/Peace)  by Boubacar Dièbatè & Dialy Kounda
	"Kambeng produces a powerful and captivating sound."           -Robert Oyugi UJAMA NEWS Dexter has teamed up with griot from Senegal, Boubacar Dièbatè, with other West African and American musicians  to form the band Dialy Kounda. This CD also features Fara Tolno from Guinea, and Freddy Zahui from Ivory Coast. Boubacar has come to the US from a traditional Mandinka griot family, and his striking vocals and riveting kora (West African harp) touch listeners everywhere. This is a musical blend everyone can understand... click here to read reviews
	Originally released on Dancing Circle, Kambeng is difficult to find but not impossible! E-mail disc(at)dexofon.com for more info - or call (303) 604 2040.

Dexter's sound blends the musical idioms of  all the Americas  with a blues and jazz background. He changed his  life in two and a half years  working with musicians in  Central  and South  America.  In Brasil he met  talented young guitarist/ composer, Antônio Melo, whose credits include "Homenagem a  Radamés  Gnattallí" on Badi Assad  CD Solo (Chesky). Together  with Thiago de Mello  Dexter and Antonio  recorded the CD "Inspiration" originally released in Brazil by  Ethos-Brasil.  With liner notes by eminent Brazilian critic/producer, Arnaldo DeSouteiro. "Inspiration"  is now available in the U.S. on Dexofon Records. He  also recorded  in  Rio de Janeiro  with  Beth Carvalho and  Paulinho Tapajós, and  performed in  la Habana  with patriarch  Elio  Revé   and with   Orlando Lopez Cachao of the famous Buena Vista Social Club. Meeting and playing with Ruben Gonzales was a life altering experience.		CDs CALENDAR PRESS BOOKING HISTORY PRESS KIT INSTRUCTION LINKS CONTACT
	photo: Carey Eyer

 

Back from South America, Dexter performed in  concert with Thiago de Mello and Amazon (special guest Sharon Isbin) and presented music from "Journey to the Amazon" with Grammy winners  Sharon  Isbin  and Thiago de Mello  in the Hamptons Music Festival and at the  92nd  St Y  in  New York. He recorded in  Woodstock, NY for Artie Traum and returns to NY to perform  with Thiago de Mello and Amazon. Now at home in Boulder, CO he is priviledged to play with exceptional musicians, locally and nationally.

2005 was an exciting one for Dexter, recording a new CD of original music with Thiago de Mello in NYC, starting his own Dexter Payne Quartet and the opportunity to perform with the amazing René Marie. He continued to enjoy dates with Lionel Young, Boubacar Diébaté & Dialy Kounda. and Michael Stanwood as well as Playback Theater West, regular Mondays at Herb's with Denver Jazz Orchestra (dir. Sam Bivens)  and frequent engagements with latin jazz Dan Egger-Belandria Trio.

Dexofon Records is expanding horizons, making new friends and spreading the music with the release of "Inspiration" and "Another Feeling".  Watch for the release of Judy Roderick and the Forbears .

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