Walter Payton Jr., the genial bassist who anchored the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and shaped generations of public school students, died Thursday at Kindred Hospital-New Orleans following a ...

Walter Payton—New Orleans bassist and music educator—has passed away at the age of 68 on Thursday, October 28, after a long illness. A native of the city, Payton taught for twenty-five years in the ...

Preservation Hall Director Ben Jaffe today wrote his recollections of the late bassist Walter Payton, who passed away yesterday: Walt’s been a part of my as long as I can remember. I started studying ...

Walter Payton had Matt Suhey. Brian Piccolo had Gale Sayers. Ed McCaskey remembers both relationships too well. When McCaskey visited Piccolo in a New York hospital in 1970, the reserve running ...

The son of a respected bassist and an operatic singer and pianist, Payton has been blowing on the horn since he was 4. (father of Wynton and Branford) at the University of New Orleans.