Irvin Mayfield

With his latest record, Grammy and Billboard Award winning Irvin Mayfield joins the ranks of Miles Davis, Nina Simone, Ray Charles and Led Zeppelin. The latest in a recording career of more than 30 live and studio albums, Live at Newport gives the listener an opportunity to hear Mayfield and nineteen musicians fresh, raw, and uncut. 

One of the most recorded Jazz musicians of his generation, Mayfield showcases his prowess as a songwriter with songs Angola, inspired by the writer Ernest Gaines, and May His Soul Rest in Piece, written for his father, one of the many victims of Hurricane Katrina.

From the Beatles to Queen, Mayfield continues to show the diversity of his musical taste.