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Dexter
has shared the stage with:
Bo Diddley, Johnny Shines, Homesick James,
Dave Van Ronk, Dr. John, Judy
Roderick, Bar B Q Bob, Johnny Long, Washboard Chaz, Son Seals, C J
Cheneir, Sammy Mayfield, Spencer
Bohren, Tommy Bolin & Zephyr, Sam Bivens Denver Jazz Orch,
Bobby Carcacés, Cachaito, Orkestra Elio Revé, Victor
Mendoza, Patrice
Fisher, Noite Ilustrada, Haroldo Melodia, Noca da Portela, Juarez
Araujo, Antônio Mello, Cacho Solal, Thiago de Mello & Amazon,
Sharon Isbin, Café, Paul
Meyers, Mike
Younger, Bobby Kyle, Floyd Phillips, James Montgomery, Cliff Korman, Paulo
Braga, Nilson Matta, Dave Finck, Artie
Traum, Mike DeMicco, Sam Zucchini, Tom McDermott, Luis Simans,
Sophie Rivard, Lionel Young
Barry Wedgle, Bill Kopper, Bijoux
Barbosa, Kim Stone, Rene Marie,
Jeff Jenkins, John
Allred, Dave Willey and
more...
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Photo
by CAREY EYER
JOURNEY
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"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...
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INSPIRATION
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"
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Coraçao
Latino
(Latin
Heart) |
A.
Mello
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3:24 |
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2 |
Nordestina
N°2 |
A.
Mello |
3:23 |
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3 |
Mais
Uma
Vez
(Once
More) |
K-Ximbinho
|
3:01 |
((+))
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4 |
Rapsódia
in
Choro |
A.
Mello |
4:32 |
| ((+)) |
5 |
Marte
(Mars) |
A.
Mello |
2:40 |
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6 |
Obrigado
Paulinho
da
Viola |
A.
Mello |
5:40 |
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7 |
Infinitivamente |
A.
Mello |
4:08
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8 |
Radamés
y
Pelé |
A.C.
Jobim
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4:30 |
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9 |
Canto
Dos
Pássaros
(Song
of
the
Birds) |
A.
Mello |
6:32 |
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10 |
Inspiration |
A.
Mello |
6:28 |
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11 |
Tema
Para
K-Ximbinho |
A.
Mello |
2:48
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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...
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Read
Carlotta
Grandstaff's
article
in the Bitterroot Star
HISTORY
January, 2009, I began
directing 16 students in the Afropop
Ensemble of Naropa University. Great final concert
(Way to go people!) 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! 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, new
blues
with Little Joe McLerran, a return to MT for a set with Hughey
Lewis& the Big Sky Mudflaps, and
more to come!
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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.
The
BIG SKY
MUDFLAPS reunited in NYC Aug 30, at Judson Memorial Church, 55
Washington Sq. South, NY, NY to celebrate the life of Richard Wendell
Cordtz. What a night! I returned to NYC in December to perform with
Thiago de Mello & Amazon (with guest vocalist, Ithamara Koorax) in
a celebration of the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights - world premiere of "A Flame in
the Dark", Thiago de Mello's composition honoring Sergio de Mello and
all those who died in the bombing of the UN Offices in Bhagdad. The
year finished with the long awaited release
of Judy Roderick & the Forbears on the Dexofon label. With Mac
Rebennack playing piano & B3 on four tunes... there is a lot more
than meets the eye... or the ear at first listening!
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Summer 2007 musical adventures
were a
blast: Carbondale Art Fair and Telluride Jazz Fest wi Bola Abimbola, as
well as Crestone Music fest with Tobatana Marimba. eighteen years ago I
played Telluride Jazz in its infancy - on the same stage! 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!
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In Sept 2006 I performed a
wonderful series of concerts in Brazil with Thiago de Mello and Antonio
Mello, in Rio de Janeiro, and also in "MIMO" Mostra International de
Musica em Olinda near Recife, Pernambuco. 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. In addition I gave
a
clinic
for
some
very
motivated
and
naturally
talented young reed
players... in Portuguese!
I
was also invited to perform 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 play with some great Cariocas! I gained
a wealth
of friendship and the
"Inspiration" tour truly lived up to its name.
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2005
was an exciting year, recording a new
CD of original music with Thiago
de Mello in NYC,
starting the Dexter Payne Quartet
and
the opportunity to perform
with singer/composer René
Marie. Al that plus 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.
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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.
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. |
2009
2008
2007
2006
2004
2003
2002
2001
2000
1999
1998
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-Directed Naropa Afropop
Ensemble
-Bao Bao Festival, Boulder Theater
-Jazzoula Festival, Missoula, MT
-Backed Huey Lewis, Hamilton, MT
-Jazzoula Fest, Missoula, MT
-X Games wi Salem
-Crestone
Music Fest wi Tobatana Marimba
-Telluride Jazz wi Bola Abimbola
-Crestone Music Fest wi Tobatana Marimba
-MIMO Festival, Olinda, Pernambuco, Brazil wi Sharon Isbin, Thiago de Mello, Antonio Mello
-Planetario do Cidade, Rio de Janeiro
-Basin Jazz Fest, Boulder, MT
-Boubacar Diebate & Dialy
Kounda,
"Drums Not Guns" Bend,OR
-Tom
McDermott, Rocky Mtn
Ragtime Festival, Boulder,CO
-Artie
Traum, Mike Demicco, Sam
Zuchinni, "Day in the Country" Sardinia,NY
-Boubacar
Diebate
&
Dialy
Kounda, World African Music Festival, Detroit
-Boubacar
Diebate
&
Dialy
Kounda, Fairfax World Music Festival, CA
-BarBQ Bob & Washboard Chaz, Lyons Taste of
the Blues Festival
-Senor
Gato, Cherry Creek Arts Festival
-Thiago de Mello &
Amazon, Art Club, NYC
-BarBQ Bob & Washboard Chaz, Gold Hill Inn
& Taste of
Colorado
-Dan Sadowsky & Washboard Chaz, Red
Dirt Blues Fest
-"Quiltspeak" Speaking of Dance, Colo
Hist Museum
-Thiago de Mello &
Amazon, Fisher Aud, Columbia Univ, NYC
-Bobby Kyle Band,
Chicago
Blues,
NYC
-Mike
Younger, Mercury Lounge, NYC
-Artie Traum, Swallow Hill, Denver, CO
-Thiago de Mello &
Amazon with Sharon Isbin, Henry St Settlement, NYC
-Bar BQ Bob & Washboard Chaz,Lyons Blues
Fest
-Patrice
Fisher: Harpa Latina, UNC, Greeley,CO.
-Taste of the Blues with Washboard Chaz
and Johnny Long.
-Grammy nominees Sharon Isbin, Thiago de Mello and
Amazon, Symphony Space, NYC
-Sharon
Isbin, Thiago de
Mello , Music Festival of the
Hamptons, Long Island, NY
-Sharon
Isbin, Thiago de
Mello and Amazon, 92nd St."Y", NYC
-Feature concert with duo Encore in Festival
de
las
Artes
Puerto
Vallarta,
Mexico. |
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
2000 Thiago 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
1999 Patrice
Fisher Arpa Latina,Cesar Chavez Cultural Cntr,UNC(Greeley, CO)
1998 Sharon
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)
1996 Patrice
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
2010 CD Dawn & Dave Kimble
CD Mohamed Alidu
& Bizung Family
CD Low Bid on a
Dream by D Michael
2009 CD "When Im Gone" wi
Judy Roderick on Dexofon Records
"Kiana"
Richard
Gesten
photo
essay
2008 CD "Our Time to Remember"
on Gau Records
CD compilation: "Under the Same Sky"
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 with
Boubacar
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)
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