Biography
Irvin Mayfield is a cornerstone of the Basin Street roster as a solo artist and member of the inactive Los Hombres Calientes. His considerable trumpet skills are exceeded by his indefatigable ambitions as the founder of the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra, the city's cultural ambassador, the chairman of the New Orleans library system's board of directors and his positions at multiple institutions of higher learning.
Ellis Marsalis is the patriarch of the first family of azz, a lyrical pianist present at the birth of the Big Easy modern jazz scene, and a beloved educator whose former students include Mayfield.
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For their new CD, "Love Songs, Ballads and Standards, " arriving in stores on Tuesday, April 1, they set aside their respective resumes to collaborate on lush, glittering arrangements of standards and not-so-standards.
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