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 ...

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.

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 ...

By the age of 9, he was sitting in with the Young Tuxedo Brass Band on trumpet, next to his father, bassist and sousaphonist Walter Payton. And his mother Maria Payton was an opera singer and ...