After Nicholas Payton‘s infectious, groove-heavy album Bitches was rejected by Concord Records in 2010, Payton leaked it online for free download in November that year. In early 2011 it appeared again, and began making waves not only with Payton’s longtime jazz fans, but with funk lovers enamored with its synth- and drum machine-laden textures that put Payton closer in sound to Dam-Funk than Terence Blanchard.
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Now, Bitches is finally available for purchase on iTunes and Amazon, with physical CDs coming November 8 from German record label In+Out. According to JazzTimes, the new, commercial version of the album has been remastered and remixed by Tom Soares, whose resume includes Erykah Badu’s New Amerykah: Part One (4th World War) and New Amerykah Part Two: Return Of The Ankh and Rakim’s The Seventh Seal. About the new version, Payton tweeted, “It’s another record altogether. Made a huge difference.”
