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A New Orleans Creole Christmas

Irvin Mayfield

A New Orleans Creole Christmas

Price: € 14.95
Format: CD
Label: Basin Street
UPC: 0652905040720
Catnr: BSR 0407
Release date: 12 September 2014
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Basin Street
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0652905040720
Catalogue number
BSR 0407
Release date
12 September 2014
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Grammy award winning trumpeter and bandleader Irvin Mayfield debuts his first album of holiday music with "A New Orleans Creole Christmas", a collection of timeless classics reinteroreted by the widely reknowned cultural ambassador of New Orleas. With his 12th release for Basin Street Records, Mayfield demonstrates his maturity as a player and arranger alongside The Jazz Playhouse Revue.

The album blends traditional-style playing on the upbeat rendition of "O Tannenbaum - O Christmas Tree" with soulful, gospel-inspired versions of Silent Night and Winter Wonderland, and melodic, modern jazz renditions of favorites such as The Christmas Song and Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas. Michael Watson graces the listener with his velvet singing voice on the Vince Guaraldi/Lee Mendeson classic, Christmas Time Is Here.

Highlighting the acumen of these fine musicians, A New Orleans Creole Christmas was recorded in true jazz fashion, as a "live" session at Irvin Mayfield's Jazz Playhouse on Bourbon Street in New Orleans.
In wahrer Jazz-Manier wurde dieses Festtagsalbum als Live-Session aufgenommen. Startrompeter Irvin Mayfield verbindet darauf traditionelle Spielweisen mit einer peppigen Version von "O Tannenbaum" mit vom Gospel inspirierten Umsetzungen von "Stille Nacht" und "Winter Wonderland" und melodischen, modernen Favoriten. Diese Produktion ist sowohl etwas für hartgesottene Jazzliebhaber als auch für Familien, die ihre liebsten Weihnachtsmelodien in einer neuen, frischen Fassung genießen möchten.

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Irvin Mayfield

A Grammy and Billboard Award-winning producer, composer, trumpet player, and author.  Mayfield’s credits include over 30 records, collaborations with Frank Ocean, Lenny Kravitz, George Clinton, Wyclef Jean, Bob Weir, Ani DiFranco, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Haley Reinhart, Wynton Marsalis, Dr. John, Ernest Gaines, and Gordon Parks. His most recent musical project is a trio called Cirque Du Freak in which he and partners, Ronald Markham and John Díaz-Cortés, play a variety of synthesizers, drum machines, and the occasional trumpet over electronic beats. His career started in Latin music as a cofounder of the celebrated group, Los Hombres Calientes with veteran percussionist Bill Summers in 1998. Since then, Mayfield has been named the Jazz Artist in Residence at the Apollo Theater in 2014, Artistic Director...
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A Grammy and Billboard Award-winning producer, composer, trumpet player, and author.

Mayfield’s credits include over 30 records, collaborations with Frank Ocean, Lenny Kravitz, George Clinton, Wyclef Jean, Bob Weir, Ani DiFranco, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Haley Reinhart, Wynton Marsalis, Dr. John, Ernest Gaines, and Gordon Parks.
His most recent musical project is a trio called Cirque Du Freak in which he and partners, Ronald Markham and John Díaz-Cortés, play a variety of synthesizers, drum machines, and the occasional trumpet over electronic beats.
His career started in Latin music as a cofounder of the celebrated group, Los Hombres Calientes with veteran percussionist Bill Summers in 1998. Since then, Mayfield has been named the Jazz Artist in Residence at the Apollo Theater in 2014, Artistic Director of Jazz from 2009 to 2014 at the Minnesota Orchestra, and Founder and Artistic Director of the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra from 2002 to 2016.
Mayfield’s catalogue includes live recordings at the prestigious Blue Note Jazz Club, the Village Vanguard, and most recently a live recording at the Newport Jazz Festival. Domestically, Mayfield has headlined all major performing arts centers including Carnegie Hall and has twice performed at the White House for presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama.
Internationally, Mayfield has headlined major Jazz festivals from North Sea in Europe to the Sydney Jazz Festival in Australia and has toured extensively throughout four continents.
Mayfield has authored two coffee table books, A Love Letter to New Orleans and New Orleans Jazz Playhouse, and has received an honorary doctorate from Dillard University. Mayfield was nominated by President George W. Bush and appointed by President Barrack Obama to the National Council on the Arts. He was also nominated for an NAACP Image Award for his recording with Dee Dee Bridgewater.


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