Walter Payton, Jr. was an American

United States

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 jazz

Jazz

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 bassist

Double bass

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 and sousaphonist

Sousaphone

The sousaphone is a type of tuba that is widely employed in marching bands. Designed so that it fits around the body of the musician and is supported by the left shoulder, the sousaphone may be readily played while being carried...

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Payton was born in New Orleans, Louisiana

New Orleans, Louisiana

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. He played with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band

Preservation Hall Jazz Band

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, the French Market Jazz Hall Band and the Young Tuxedo Brass Band

Young Tuxedo Brass Band

The Young Tuxedo Brass Band is a brass band from New Orleans, which was influential on the New Orleans jazz scene in the years after World War II....

, and led his own group called the Snap Bean Band. His recording credits include Lee Dorsey

Lee Dorsey

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's "Working in the Coal Mine

Working in the Coal Mine

"Working in the Coal Mine" is a song with music and lyrics by Allen Toussaint.After Toussaint returned to New Orleans from the Army , he formed a production company, Sansu, with partner Marshall Sehorn. A number of singles, performed by Lee Dorsey, followed in 1965-66, including "Working in the...

", and Payton variously worked with Aaron Neville

Aaron Neville

Aaron Neville is an American soul and R&B singer and musician. He has had four top-20 hits in the United States along with four platinum-certified albums...

, Harry Connick Jr., Champion Jack Dupree

Champion Jack Dupree

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 and Chuck Carbo

Chuck Carbo

Hayward "Chuck" Carbo was an American R&B singer , best known for his time as a vocalist in the New Orleans group The Spiders.Carbo sang with his brother, Leonard "Chick" Carbo, in The Spiders, who recorded for Imperial Records in the 1950s and scored a string of hits on the U.S. Black Singles chart...

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Payton died in his hometown of New Orleans, after an illness, aged 68. He was the father of jazz trumpet

Trumpet

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 player Nicholas Payton

Nicholas Payton

Nicholas Payton is a jazz trumpet player from New Orleans, Louisiana.-Biography: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...

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