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Irvin Mayfield

Friday, August 08, 2008

New Orleans cultural ambassador and trumpeter Irvin Mayfield was about to record an album when Hurricane Katrina struck. The offices of his record company where destroyed by the floods, but thanks to his iPod – where he saved the original mixes – the music wasn't lost. Mayfield joins us to talk about his new album, "Love Songs, Ballads and Standards," about life at the Crescent City after Katrina, and to perform in our studio.

Irvin Mayfield on MySpace
More about Irvin Mayfield on Basin St. Records site


Comments

  • [1] Phoebe from NJ August 08, 2008 - 02:49PM

    This is a very interesting story, but praying over a trumpet is a little odd!!


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