{"id":119730,"date":"2020-02-25T13:56:19","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T20:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=119730"},"modified":"2021-10-14T11:00:04","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T17:00:04","slug":"grammy-winner-nicholas-payton-returns-to-colorado-springs-for-march-7-ent-center-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=119730","title":{"rendered":"Grammy winner Nicholas Payton returns to Colorado Springs for March 7 Ent Center performance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/ars_864x486-nicholas-payton-quartet.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"864\" height=\"486\" src=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/ars_864x486-nicholas-payton-quartet.jpg\" alt=\"Headshot of Nicholas Payton\" class=\"wp-image-119731\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/ars_864x486-nicholas-payton-quartet.jpg 864w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/ars_864x486-nicholas-payton-quartet-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/ars_864x486-nicholas-payton-quartet-750x422.jpg 750w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/ars_864x486-nicholas-payton-quartet-678x381.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button alignright\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-text-color has-very-dark-gray-color has-background\" href=\"https:\/\/tickets.uccspresents.org\/1318\/1319\" style=\"background-color:#cfb87c\">Buy tickets<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Grammy-winning trumpeter Nicholas Payton will return to Colorado Springs for a March 7 performance with the Nicholas Payton Quartet in the Shockley-Zalabak Theater at the Ent Center for the Arts. Tickets for this Artist Series event are available through the UCCS Presents Box Office <a href=\"https:\/\/tickets.uccspresents.org\/1318\/1319\">online<\/a>, by phone at (719) 255-3232 and by email at <a href=\"mailto: tickets@uccspresents.org\">tickets@uccspresents.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Payton performed with the Colorado Springs Philharmonic in October 2019. He won a Grammy Award in 1998 for Best Jazz Instrumental Solo and has three more nominations, all in jazz categories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNicholas is an intellectual who brings a breadth and depth of influence to his approach to music-making, and his quartet&nbsp;is unbelievably virtuosic. Music lovers across the board will love this evening,\u201d said Aisha Ahmad-Post, director of the Ent Center for the Arts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Payton has collaborated with musical legends such as Ray Charles and Herbie Hancock.&nbsp;In addition to&nbsp;such&nbsp;high-profile collaborations, he has&nbsp;been acclaimed as \u201ca wholly uncategorizable musician whose work embraces practically the entire span of jazz history and pushes&nbsp;well beyond it\u201d by the Chicago Tribune.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The UCCS Presents Artist Series brings the world to Colorado Springs by leveraging the Ent Center for the Arts to connect world-class performers with the people of southern Colorado. Founded in 2018, the Artist Series features emerging and venerated musicians, dancers, and live performance experiences.\u202f <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"740\" height=\"417\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cCtQ5f4vKZw?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>&#8220;Music lovers across the board will love this evening,\u201d said Aisha Ahmad-Post, director of the Ent Center for the Arts. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=119730\" title=\"Grammy winner Nicholas Payton returns to Colorado Springs for March 7 Ent Center performance\">(More)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":119731,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,45],"tags":[330,412,60,91],"class_list":["post-119730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-arts-and-culture","tag-arts-and-culture","tag-ent-center","tag-student-success","tag-uccs-presents"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/ars_864x486-nicholas-payton-quartet.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mBpJ-v98","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119730"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120828,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119730\/revisions\/120828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/119731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}