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Irvin Mayfield and New Orleans Jazz Orchestra Headlines Stanford's Pre-Independence Day Celebration
In what has become a favorite summertime tradition for more than a decade, Stanford Lively Arts presents its annual pre-Independence Day concert and picnic on Thursday, July 3. Following their 2006-07 Lively Arts performance, the 16-member New Orleans Jazz Orchestra--led by Grammy-nominated composer and trumpet virtuoso Irvin Mayfield--returns to bring the rich musical legacy of the ...
Irvin Mayfield and the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra: Strange Fruit
by Jack Bowers
If there is any justice, Irvin Mayfield's powerful cantata that lays bare the taboo of interracial love and the horrors of lynching in the Jim Crow South should assume an honored place among the celebrated masterpieces of early 21st Century music. That probably won't happen, as justice is almost as scarce today as it was then, ...
