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NOJO partners with Morton's Steakhouse for Mingle,
Jingle and Jazz luncheon. Tickets available now! NOJI opens Saturday Music School at UNO, partners
with UNO Capitol One's Charter School Network. Love Sessions concert series raises over $40,000 for local non-profits New Orleans Non-Profits Feel the Love. Over
900 New Orleanians and jazz enthusiasts recently packed into Irvin
Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse at the Royal Sonesta Hotel. New Orleans' Hotelier and Award Winning Trumpeter Forge Historic Entertainment IRVIN MAYFIELD AND THE NEW ORLEANS JAZZ ORCHESTRA RELEASE NEW CD, “BOOK ONE” DURING JAZZ FEST! New Orleans (April 21, 2009) – Irvin Mayfield and The New Orleans Jazz Orchestra (NOJO) announced today that they are issuing a limited local release of their new CD, “Book One,” during The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival presented by Shell April 24 - May 3, 2009. The CD, which is on World Village, a world music label from Harmonia Mundi, features NOJO’s critically-acclaimed big band led by Mayfield, a Grammy Award-nominated and Billboard Award-winning trumpeter and NOJO’s founder and artistic director, as well as soloists such as saxophonist Ed “Sweetbread” Peterson and vocalists Leon “Chocolate” Brown, Johnaye Kendrick and John Boutte. Irvin Mayfield and the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra will be performing at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival on Saturday May 2 at 4:00 p.m. - 5:10 p.m. A CD release party will follow the performance on May 2 at Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse at the Royal Sonesta Hotel, 300 Bourbon Street in the French Quarter at 8 p.m. |
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