photo by James Roderick        Dexter's new song with Salvador Yeo: You and Me Again appears in a fresh collection of new music  from an international consortium of emerging artists. Buy any CD from Dexofon Records and we will ship the compilation CD Under the Same Sky with your order!                *          *          * Downbeat Magazine Annual Readers Poll voted Dexter in the top 10 clarinet players of 2004 & '06     (see Dec  '06 issue) Thank you, Downbeat Readers!!! Listen at www.dexofon.com DISK TUM DERREI (say;"disk-TOOM-de-HEY")   Visit www.thiago-amazon,com and discover more CDs by this prolific and talented composer. Our Time To Remember, Another Feeling and Disk Tum Derrei are available there as well as here. 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) also.                                                                                   -Dexter Payne	Now it's a Blog: Dexter's Gig Alert	BLOG CDs CALENDAR PRESS HISTORY CONTACT LINKS PRESS KIT BOOKING Live samples! BECO DO CHORO PHOTOS INSTRUCTION/MENTORING LIVE DEMOS Listen to: Dexter Payne Quartet (Brasilian choro) Veelah (Hot Balkan) Beco Do Choro (choro, samba, baiao) Baro Swing ( gypsy jazz) Not only does the wigit BELOW play all these songs from my CDs, but you can even grab it and put the whole wiget on your homepage, desktop or where ever and hear the tunes at your fingertips. Email it to your friends!  LISTEN HERE! with Sharon Isbin and Thiago Inspiration with Antonio and Thiago website © 2009 Dexter Payne
	Enter email below to have this blog sent to your inbox! Enter your email address: Delivered by FeedBurner Dexter's performance dates for your area, news updates, RSVP link for house concerts and more! Coming soon: Dexter Payne or Judy Roderick RINGTONES for your wireless. Sign up now - Be the first on your block! Online: -click to the blog at: http://dextersgigalert.blogspot.com/ Network: - www.myspace.com/dexterpayne - www.facebook.com/dexterpayne - www.reverbnation.com/dexterpayne Become a Dexter Payne facebook Fan NOTICE: Naropa Univ Afropop Ensemble to be directed by Dexter beginning January 11, 2010. Enrollment WILL be open to the community on a limited basis. Inquire immediately.
	CDs at Dexofon Records: www.dexofon.com from Judy Roderick & the Forbears: WHEN IM GONE with special guest Mac Rebennack 25 year old recordings released for the first time to the public! order here! Look for the 4 star review in September Downbeat. Samples, reviews and more. AND NEW from Thiago de Mello: OUR TIME TO REMEMBER The great Brazilian composer Thiago de Mello continues his prolific creativity. Featuring Dexter Payne, Haroldo Mauro, Cliff Korman, Helio Alves, Homero Lubambo, Helio Schiavo and Leonardo Cioglio. Produced by Thiago de Mello and Arnaldo DeSouteiro on GAU RECORDS and Jazz Station Records (JSR). Available at www.dexofon.com Also from Thiago de Mello: A FLAME in the DARK premiered in NYC Dec concert,  featuring Ithamara Koorax and Amazon! The concert and the CD were dedicted to the lives of those who died in the bombing of the UN office in Baghdad. CD now available from Thiago de Mello at CD Baby.
	January, 2009, I began the year directing 16 students in the Afropop Ensemble of Naropa University.  The majority of the class performed in the 6th annual Bao Bao Festival at Boulder Theater, providing the backup band for Kofi Mawuko, from Ghana - and they did it just 7 weeks after the first class! Great final concert (Way to go people!) I made a repeat performance at  the Jazzoula/Buddy Defranco Festival in Missoula, MT, and performed a set honoring Buddy Defranco, 86 year old clarinet wiz, who is still playing his butt off. In Missoula for the festival were Benny Golson, Dave Samuels, Randy Sandke, Steve Smith. Summer '09 is ripping and rich with musical adventure... Boulder's new Bateria Alegria, EEFC Balkan Music Camp, a new blues CD with Little Joe McLerran, 2009 Solo Blues Champ at the IBC in Memphis, a return to MT for a set with Hughey Lewis & the Big Sky Mudflaps, and more! Ongoing Peace Concerts with Kailin Yong, Scott Kinnamon's To Kill a Mockingbird with Eric Moon - further highlights in a great year. As 2009 draws to a close I am working on a new incarnation of Moussa Konate & the Lost Tribe. Moussa carries a vibrant tradition of evolving music from his heritage in Mali. And I have just been invited to join in one of Jeff Jenkins' Piano Conversations - a great way to finish a great year!               *                            *                        *

Listen now at www.dexofon.com	DISK TUM DERREI (say;"disk-TOOM-de-HEY") Visit www.thiago-amazon,com and discover more CDs by this prolific and talented composer. Our Time To Remember, Another Feeling and Disk Tum Derrei are available there as well as here. 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 Brasil 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 Brasil on JSR (Jazz Station Records) also.
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 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.)  -Arnaldo DeSouteiro, 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 Independent              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 will make dancing involuntary. Featuring Meg York with Jesse Manno, Dave Willey, John Erickson and Dexter Payne.
	KAMBENG (Unity/Peace)  by Boubacar Dièbatè & Dialy Kounda
	"Kambeng produces a powerful and captivating sound."           -Robert Oyugi UJAMA NEWS Dexter 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 came 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 also 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 and Cachaito was a life altering experience.		CDs CALENDAR PRESS BOOKING HISTORY PRESS KIT INSTRUCTION LINKS CONTACT
	photo: Carey Eyer

 

On his return 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 frequently to perform and record with Thiago de Mello.

CDs, publishing and booking   CONTACT: Dexofon Records/Clean Slate Music PO Box 4104 Boulder, CO 80306 tel: 303.604.2040 or e-mail: net(AT)dexterpayne.com