Irvin Mayfield - A Love Letter To New Orleans

The compilation CD that accompanied the jazz trumpeter and bandleader Irvin Mayfield's critically acclaimed deluxe coffee-table book 'A Love Letter to New Orleans', which chronicles Irvin's artistic quest and development into one of America's most promising young jazz musicians.'A Love Letter to New Orleans' includes 14 selections from Irvin Mayfield's 10-album recording career on Basin Street Records. We selected songs that tell the story of Mayfield's evolution as an artist, states Mark Samuels, founder and CEO of Basin Street Records, who signed Mayfield to his first recording contract at the young age of 20. A Love Letter to New Orleans is both a letter of thanks to all of the incredible artists that I had the honor to work with and it is a love offering to my beloved city of New Orleans. states Mayfield. The CD includes selections from the four critically acclaimed Los Hombres Calientes albums featuring Bill Summers and drummer Jason Marsalis. It also includes selections from Strange Fruit, and Love Songs & Duets, Mayfield's seminal recording with Ellis Marsalis. Other selections include collaborations with mentor and Grammy-award winning Wynton Marsalis, and the 80-piece Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, to name but a few.