, the longtime bassist in the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, suffered a minor stroke Jan. 8 while on tour. He remains hospitalized in the Washington D.C. area. Payton, 67, is a versatile bassist ...

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 ...

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 ...

While the musicians of Preservation Hall’s famous band have evolved over the years — the great clarinetist Ralph Johnson died late in 2009, and bassist Walter Payton had a stroke in January ...

In 2010, the Grammy-winning trumpeter Nicholas Payton wrote a blog post after the death of his father, Walter Payton, a longtime Preservation Hall musician. Payton’s screed was colored by grief ...