Nicholas Payton has been played on NTS in shows including NTS X Carhartt WIP Radio Tour, featured first on 20 October 2016. Songs played include The Three Trumpeteers, Praalude and Five.

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…