Dexofon Records/Clean
Slate Music PO Box 4104
Boulder, CO 80306 tel: 303.604.2040
or e-mail: net(AT)dexterpayne.com
Washboard Chaz, Johnny Long
& Dexter at Lyons, CO Taste of the Blues Fest '99. courtesy of
Colorado Blues Society (click on photo for Colo Blues Society)
"In 1995 a journey began,
one
I had prepared for all
my life. From Ensenada, Baja
California, home of Carlos Santana, I traveled south, so slowly I wasn't
really
traveling, finding amazing musicians to play with everywhere.
Honoring
intuition, never leaving till I felt the flow, I had no schedule, no
itinerary.
Even sitting still the real journey was underway, traversing new
interior
territory. Inside, I crossed lonely deserts, rivers of joy, mountain
ranges
of
fear, jungles of mystery, not knowing the goal, only trusting.
I played with truly gifted people like Rubén Gonzales and
Orlando López
Cachao
in of Buena Vista Social Club, visited inspiring places like the
islands of
Solentinami
in Nicaragua,
and performed with street actors in Cartagena, with a banda in a
village
high above Pátzcuaro, Michoacan, for a funeral in a
cemetery
overlooking
Lake Atitlan, a solo concert for the white smocked Mayans of Najá
in the Lacandon rain forest.
Nearly two years later, in the Amazon Basin of Brasil I felt a
quickening.
In
Manaus,
playing on a live television music show, I was introduced to
Antônio
Melo, talented composer and guitarist. As we became acquainted
we
both
recognized the inspired connection that musicians hope for. And,
on
a boat
in
the middle of the 'river sea', I met Thiago de Mello, true musical
magician
and
mentor. When Antônio and I decided to record, I invited
Thiago
and
he
accepted without hesitation, creating instruments on the spot from
ordinary
household objects.
At the scheduled recording time the power went out for an hour. We
waited,
and
the
power came back. Everyone was ready.
Two afternoons in the studio made it possible for you to hear, to
feel...
INSPIRATION!"
The music fed our souls, the seed was planted. Nothing
to do but wait (again!) Five years
later, in
Rio de Janeiro where Antônio now lives, he and Thiago
collaborated
with
producer
Flavio Goulart of Ethos-Brasil Records, adding finishing touches,
more
"organic
percussion" ranging from berimbau to a vocal surdu, and creating a
truly
inspired
listening experience...
Now available on CD, in North America from Dexofon
Records,
Inspiration was
included in the
Recording Academy Entry List as one of 119 CDs eligible for
Grammy nomination as "Best
Contemporary World Album"
1997 "Happy Birthday Song" with Sammy Mayfield, on CD
Blues by the Bushel, reached #20, nat'l. blues charts. (The sax
solo is Dexter, no credit given in liner notes.)
1995-98 Toured in the Americas,
playing in 12 countries with many different groups.
1990-94 Recorded CD and toured 10
states (3 times) with BarBQ Bob Trio.
1976-92 Partnered with singer Judy Roderick. Appeared at
Philadelphia Folk Festival, Bottom Line, Great American Music Hall,
recorded and appeared with Dr. John, assisted in producing posthumous reissue of Woman
Blue(Vanguard)
1975-84 Formed "The Big Sky
Mudflaps" bebop and swing for dancing. Two times on NBC Today Show and Kool(Newport) Jazz
Festival, four times on NPR Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. Two
LPs(Helios, Flying Fish)
Studied clarinet and sax with Jack
Fredrickson, alto and arranger for the "Hot Tomatoes" in Denver. Six years in the school bands and
orchestras of bassist/guitarist Aldo Lallo. Studied with John Handy Jr. at Stanford Univ,
and with Homer Brown in Denver.
Presentations:
2001 Saxtet (saxophone
quartet) national anthem Denver Pepsi Ctr.(Nuggets) Thiago de Mello &
Amazon, private engagement, NYC
Michael Stanwood & YeahbutShoehead, Strings in the Mtns, Steamboat
Spgs, CO
BarBQ Bob, Washboard Chaz and Dexter Payne, Taste of Colorado,
Denver
Dan Sadowsky, Washboard Chaz and Dexter Payne, Red Dirt Blues Fest,
Lyons,CO
Day of the Dead with Michael Stanwood, Cameron Church
"Quiltspeak" by Speaking of Dance with Michael Stanwood & Mark
McCoin 2000Thiago de Mello &
Amazon, Fisher Aud, Columbia Univ, NYC
Mike Younger, Mercury Cafe, NYC
Bobby Kyle Band, Chicago Blues, NYC
Special guest with Artie Traum, Swallow Hill, Denver, CO
Trio Chorando appeared with George Winston, N Bar Ranch, Grassrange, MT
Thiago de Mello &
Amazon with Sharon Isbin, Henry St Settlement, NYC 1999Patrice
Fisher Arpa Latina,Cesar Chavez Cultural Cntr,UNC(Greeley, CO)
1998Sharon
Isbin, Thiago de Mello &
Amazon, 92nd
St Y (NYC) Sharon
Isbin & Thiago de Mello, Music Festival of the Hamptons
(LI, NY) Thiago de Mello &
Amazon, Symphony Space (NYC)
Feature with duo Encore, Festival
de las Artes de Puerto Vallarta(Mexico) 1997 La Peña (Buenos
Aires, Argentina)
Peña Atahualpa (Iguazú, Misiones, Argentina)
Duo with Antônio Melo, Universidade da Amazonas (Manaus, AM,
Brasil)
Studio band "Club de Chorinho", TV Cultura weekly live music program
"Carousel de Saudade" (Manaus,Amazonas, Brasil)
Haroldo de Melodia (Manaus, Amazonas, Brasil)
Noca da Portela (Rio de Janeiro, Brasil) 1996Patrice
Fisher Latin Jazz (Antigua, Guatemala)
Bobby Carcacés AfroCubano (La Habana, Cuba)
Orkestra Revé (La Habana) 1995 Tijuana Big Band
(Tijuana, Mexico)
Ensenada Jazz (Tijuana and Tecate, Mexico) 1993 BarBQ Bob, Kansas
City Music Festival 1992,3 BarBQ Bob, Down Home Blues Festival
(Rentiesville, OK)
BarBQ Bob, Miss Valley Blues Festival (Davenport, IA) 1992 BarBQ Bob, Red
Rocks Amphitheater (Denver, CO) 1987 Judy Roderick,
Tobacco Road (Miami, FL), Tipitinas (NO, LA) 1983 Big Sky Mudflaps,
Philadelphia Folk Festival
Big Sky Mudflaps, McCabes (Los Angeles, CA)
Judy Roderick & the Forebears, Bottom Line (NYC),
Judy Roderick & the Forebears, Lonestar Cafe (NYC) 1983 Judy Roderick &
the Forebears, Great American Music Hall (San Francisco, CA) 1980 Big
Sky Mudflaps, Great American Music Hall (San Francisco, CA) 1980 Big Sky
Mudflaps, Kool Jazz Festival (NYC) 1980 Big Sky
Mudflaps,NBC Today Show (NYC) 1981 Big Sky Mudflaps, Kool Jazz Festival (NYC) 1981 Big Sky
Mudflaps,NBC Today Show (NYC)
1974-81Big Sky Mudflaps, NPR Prairie Home
Companion (Minneapolis, MN) four times 1973 Sunday morning
David Letterman Show wi Stanley Smith (Indianapolis, IN) 1972 Sixty Million
Buffalo (Boulder, CO)
Shows with: De La Soul, Bonnie
Raitt, Muddy
Waters, Jimmy Cliff, Pop Staples & Staples Family, Robert Cray, Doc Watson, Guitar Junior, Johnny
Copeland, Pinetop Perkins and more.
RECORDINGS 2007 CD"Disk Tum Derrei" on Gau Records
2006 CD"Another Feeling" on Dexofon
Records and
JSR
CD"Village Squared" Meg
York&Veelah
2005 CD"Under Paris Skies" Lannie Garrett CD"Some of These Days" Gypsy Swing Revue
2004 "St Louis Blues" with Lionel
Young "Tyranny of the Material World" Ira Liss
CD Inspiration!!! released on
Dexofon
Records CD Portal by Michael
Stanwood 2003 CD Frederico Bros.
CD Ragtime Gal with Mary Flower 2002 CD Dare to Be Lisa Bell CD Tangible Illusions Kirby Erikson (Hamilton, MT) 2001 CD Kambeng withBoubacar
Diebate
& Dialy Kounda
Dance score "Quiltspeak" with Michael Stanwood, Mark McCoin
CD with RJE 2000 "You Can Dance" with Michael
Stanwood (Denver,CO)
CD South of Lafayette with
Artie Traum (Woodstock, NY) 1999 CD Yeahbut
Shoehead with Michael Stanwood
(Denver, CO)
CD Living Together on Planet
Earth
/ChoralWeb
with Michael Stanwood (Denver, CO) 1998 CD Flying Under the Radar with
Moonlighters, Harmonica Phil (MT) 1997 CD Inspirationwith Antônio Mello, Thiago de Mello (Manaus,
Amazonas, Brasil)
"Joatinga" with Paulinho Tapajós and Beth Carvalho, for CD Reencontro
(Rio de Janeiro) 1996 "Afuera Tiempo" collaboration with Paz
Cohen (Mexico DF) 1995 "Happy Birthday Song" with Sammy
Mayfield, for
CD Blues
by the Bushel /OPM (Denver, CO)
CD Armchair Caberet Live with
Big Sky Mudflaps (Missoula, MT) 1994 CD Tumblin Down with Bleeker Street
(Boulder, CO)
CD Light
Pink Album with Steven Allen Davis (Boulder, CO) 1993 "River City Blues" radio show with BBQ
Bob Trio (Omaha, NE) 1990 CD Cant Get the Stuff No More BBQ
Bob
Trio (Boulder, CO) 1984 Judy Roderick & the Forbears
(NYC) 1982 Judy Roderick & the Forbears
with Dr
John (Boulder, CO) 1979 LP Sensible
Shoes /Flying Fish with Big Sky Mudflaps (Hamilton, MT) 1978 LP Live Wire Choir /Helios
(Missoula,MT) 1977 LP Armchair
Cabaret /Helios with Big Sky Mudflaps (Missoula, MT) for
recording/publishing
CONTACT:
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Clean Slate Music(BMI)
PO Box 4104
Boulder, CO 80306
tel: 303.604.2040
