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Irvin Mayfield: Half Past Autumn Suite
by Steven Robinson
Trumpeter Irvin Mayfield's Half Past Autumn Suite was commissioned by the New Orleans Museum of Art as a tribute to Gordon Parks on the occasion of the retrospective exhibition of his work. The suite was intended as a tribute to Mr. Parks, who is not just a great photographer, but also a writer, filmmaker, poet, and ...
Irvin Mayfield with Gordon Parks: Half Past Autumn Suite
by C. Michael Bailey
The jazz suite has grown into an art form all its own. Ellington created the form in the same way Franz Josef Haydn created the string quartet. Both men did not so much create the form by stimulating its genesis as much as bringing it to its mature actualization. Other jazz composers have ...
How Passion Falls
Label: Basin Street Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: 1. The Illusion (Mayfield) - 8:33
2. Adam and Eve (Mayfield) - 6:49
3. The Obsession (Mayfield) - 6:46
4. Othello and Desdemona (Mayfield) - 6:18
5. The Denial (Mayfield) - 8:29
6. Romeo and Juliet (Mayfield) - 2:57
7. The Affair (Mayfield) - 4:35
8. David and Bathsheba (Mayfield) - 7:27
9. The Reality (Mayfield) - 10:13
Irvin Mayfield: How Passion Falls
by Mike Perciaccante
How Passion Falls is Mayfield's second CD on Basin Street Records and it can hold its own with all the mainstream jazz that has been released in recent memory. The album contains ten original compositions (one track is “hidden" at the end) and deals with love and romance (what else, with a title like How Passion ...
How Passion Falls
Label: Basin Street Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: The Illusion; Adam & Eve; The Obsession; Othello & Desdemona; The Denial; Romeo & Juliet; The Affair; David & Bathsheba; The Reality.
Irvin Mayfield: How Passion Falls
by Mark Corroto
The Jeopardy answer is: “This young hip New Orleans trumpeter has jazz chops on loan from Louis Armstrong." Your response might be: “Who is Wynton Marsalis, Terence Blanchard, Nicholas Payton, or Irvin Mayfield?” Maybe it’s something they put in the juleps, because there is no shortage of trumpet talent coming out of the Crescent City. Twenty-two ...
