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Jazz this week: Dee Dee Bridgewater & Irvin Mayfield, Tammy McCann, Joe Krown, Pink Martini, and more
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
With the weather taking a timely spring-like turn, it's a very busy week for jazz and creative music in St. Louis, with a couple of touring headliners in town plus visits by some lesser-known but worthy musicians from jny: NYC, jny: Chicago, jny: Boston and jny: New Orleans. Let's go to the highlights... Wednesday, March 16 Singer Dee Dee Bridgewater and trumpeter Irvin Mayfield (pictured, top left) will perform for the first of four nights at Jazz at the Bistro. ...
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StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Dee Dee Bridgewater and Irvin Mayfield
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Today, let's look at some videos of singer Dee Dee Bridgewater and trumpeter Irvin Mayfield, who are coming to St. Louis to perform starting Wednesday, March 16 and continuing through Saturday, March 19 at Jazz at the Bistro. Already well-established as individual artists, Bridgewater and Mayfield joined forces for the first time in 2015 to collaborate on the album Dee Dee's Feathers, which features the two of them with the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra and assorted guest stars playing songs ...
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Irvin Mayfield And The New Orleans Jazz Orchestra Kick Off 12-City Tour
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Carolyn McClair Public Relations
IRVIN MAYFIELD AND THE NEW ORLEANS JAZZ ORCHESTRA KICK OFF 12-CITY TOUR FEBRUARY 5-22, 2015 NEW ORLEANS, LA – Irvin Mayfield and the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra (NOJO) hit the road for a 12-city tour beginning in jny: Miami, FL on February 5 and wrapping up in Fairfield, CT on February 22. In addition to Mayfield on trumpet, the 18-piece Orchestra includes such respected musicians as Victor Atkins on piano and Ed “Sweetbread” Petersen on saxophone. Jazz music was born ...
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Stephanie Jordan, Irvin Mayfield, Kermit Ruffins, And Leah Chase Share Stage With Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra
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Sylvain Music Notes
Liberty Bank Celebrates the Holidays and its 40th Anniversary with The Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra NEW ORLEANS - Liberty Bank and Trust will celebrate the holiday season and their 40th Anniversary with a special holiday musical extravaganza featuring the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra and some very special guests. “A Liberty Bank Christmas" with the LPO will take place on Saturday, December 8, 2012, 8 p.m. at Xavier University' Convocation Center, their new 4,000 seat arena, located at One Drexel Drive. Guest artists ...
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Jazz Soul Seven: Curtis Mayfield
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Singer-songwriter and guitarist Curtis Mayfield (1942-1999) isn't nearly as well known today as he should be. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Mayfield, like Sly Stone, leveraged the assertive music and messages of James Brown—whose Say It Loud (I'm Black and I'm Proud in 1968 launched a socially conscious soul music revolution. After leaving the Impressions in 1970, Mayfield wrote sweeping and critical orchestral works that were developed for LP rather than the singles market. Starting with the album ...
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Jazz Soul Seven Release "Impressions of Curtis Mayfield" on BFM Jazz
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Two for the Show Media
Curtis Mayfield ranks among the most important and influential artists of the past century, the definition of soul both as leader of the Impressions and as a solo artist. As a singer and musician, his pure tone melted hearts and as a songwriter, he was peerless, a voice of African-American pride as well as a man whose insights into the ways of the heart spoke to generations. Mayfield's impact on artists of all persuasions is incalculable, and jazz musicians have ...
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The MuthaWit Orchestra celebrates MLK Holiday with "These Songs of Freedom" featuring songs by Marley, Mayfield and other revolutionary Artists
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4961 Polemics
The MuthaWit Orchestra performs for BAM's 26th Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Event What has been said about The MuthaWit Orchestra: “MuthaWit is simultaneously urban and tribal; a meeting of the musical hemispheres, mutatis mutandis and presto!—a carnival of twisted soul." —Magnet Magazine “Boston Fielder and MuthaWit are Gods in the universe they have created and these songs, which you must hear, are their Adam and Eve, cloned to a fallen and disrupted infinity." —The Wire UK New York, ...
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Irvin Mayfield - A Love Letter to New Orleans (2011)
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Something Else!
Putting together a luxe coffee-table book honoring the city of his birth clearly got Irvin Mayfield in a nostalgic mood. Those unfamiliar with Mayfield's intriguing blend of Afro-Cuban and straight-ahead jazz with island and Mardi Gras Indian polyrhythms are the beneficiaries, as Mayfield also compiled a greatest-hits CD of his work under the same title—A Love Letter to New Orleans. The album, issued by the Crescent City's Basin Street Records, includes seven tracks highlighting his time with Los Hombres Calientes—a ...
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A Love Letter to New Orleans - An Interview with Irvin Mayfield
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Groove Notes
I spoke by phone today with New Orleans trumpeter and educator Irvin Mayfield about his beautiful new book, “A Love Letter To New Orleans." Mr. Mayfield talks about the beauty of being influenced by the film Mo Better Blues, musical and cultural similarities between NOLA and places like Haiti, Cuba, Brazil, and the beauty of New Orleans and the people of the city. Click below to listen to the interview, and find a link at the bottom of the page ...
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Grammy-Award Winning Jazz Musician, Irvin Mayfield Sends "A Love Letter To New Orleans"
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Lura Belle Productions
Deluxe multi-media coffee-table book and CD package chronicles Mayfield's artistic quest and development into one of America's most promising young jazz musicians. A Love Letter to New Orleans is also available as a CD. A Love Letter to New Orleans will be released nationally through Amazon and select retailers on April 26, 2011. A series of local book release parties will be held at the Tennessee Williams Literary Festival on March 27 at The Palm Court Jazz Café in New ...
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