Irvin Mayfield

Before turning 25, trumpeter Irvin Mayfield issued six albums. Youth combined with his readiness to impart expertise across classical and jazz idioms has rendered him a sought-after presence at music-education clinics throughout Louisiana, where he regularly leads complimentary sessions for hundreds of schoolchildren. He has additionally conducted master classes and assorted workshops in both traditions at the Chandler Jazz Festival, Loyola University, the University of North Carolina, and the University of New Orleans. A Crescent City native, Mayfield trained at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts. He fronts his own Irvin Mayfield Sextet and co-leads the modern-jazz ensemble Los Hombres Calientes with Bill Summers. In performance he has shared stages with an eclectic roster that includes Quincy Jones, Wynton Marsalis, Doc Cheatham, Chucho Valdes, Nicholas Payton, Ellis Marsalis, Moses Hogan, Ani DiFranco, and Terence Blanchard. In 2000 Billboard honored Mayfield and Los Hombres Calientes for the band’s self-titled debut album. The New Orleans Museum of Art commissioned him to write a jazz suite for its Gordon Parks exhibition; the resulting “Half Past Autumn” received its premiere at the museum in summer 2000.