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Strange Fruit Description
A moving composition Irvin Mayfield & The New Orleans Jazz Orchestra produced in collaboration with The Dillard University Choir and featuring narration by actor, Wendell Pierce.

Track Listing
Movement I
Narration #1 (0:56)
Intro/ Opening Statements (6:10)
The Beginning of the End (4:53)
Movement II
4) Narration #2 (1:22)
5) Oral Traditions of the South (4:03)
6) The Elder Negro Speaks
Movement III
7) Narration #3 (2:09)
8) Color Lines (5:43)
Movement IV
9) Narration #4 (1:04)
10) Ballad of the Hot Long Night (7:13)
Movement V
11) Narration #5/ Beat (9:09)
Movement VI
12) Narration #6 (2:17)
13) The Lynch Mob (you better run boy run) (4:52)
14) Hoopin’ and Hollerin (3:47)
Movement VII
15) Narration #7 (2:18)
16) The Prayer/ Final Words (3:48)
Movement VIII
17) Narration #8 (4:03)
18) The Sacrifice/ The Mourning (7:00)
Movement IX
19) Narration #9/ Falling Leaves Yet Growing Trees/ Ah Yes the Blues (3:03)

Personnel
Alto: Darryl Reeves
Alto: Aaron Fletcher
Baritone: Samir Zarif
Tenor: Calvin Johnson
Tenor: Brice Winston
Trombone: Steven Walker
Trombone: Terrance Taplin
Trombone: Troy Andrews
Trumpet: Barney Floyd
Trumpet: Eric Lucero
Trumpet: Leon Brown
Trumpet: Lionel Valadares
Bass: Neal Caine
Drums: Troy Davis
Piano: Victor Atkins
Percussion: Rashidi Johnson
Piano: Jonathan Batiste

Credits
Executive Producer: Mark Samuels
Associate Executive Producer: Will Samuels
Strange Fruit was commissioned by Dillard University, New Orleans. It had its world premiere on October 19, 2003, in Lawless Chapel at Dillard University.
All Compositions by Irvin Mayfield (Irvin Mayfield Publishing ((BMI)).
Engineered by Darryl Dickerson of Artistic Studios, New Orleans, LA
Mixed and Produced by Delfeayo Marsalis
Mastered by Vlado Meller, Sony Music
Photography by Jeff Strout, Strout Photography, New Orleans, LA
Cover Model: Melissa Lavigne Fowler
Clothing provided by Saks Fifth Avenue, New Orleans, LA
Recorded live on March 19-20, 2004, at Lawless Chapel, Dillard University, New Orleans, LA
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Produced by Delfeayo Marsalis
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Irvin Mayfield Bio
A Grammy and Billboard Award-winning producer, composer, trumpet player, and author.

Mayfield’s credits include over 30 records, collaborations with Frank Ocean, Lenny Kravitz, George Clinton, Wyclef Jean, Bob Weir, Ani DiFranco, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Haley Reinhart, Wynton Marsalis, Dr. John, Ernest Gaines, and Gordon Parks.

His career started in Latin music as a cofounder of the celebrated group, Los Hombres Calientes with veteran percussionist Bill Summers in 1998. Since then, Mayfield has been named the Jazz Artist in Residence at the Apollo Theater in 2014, Artistic Director of Jazz from 2009 to 2014 at the Minnesota Orchestra, and Founder and Artistic Director of the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra from 2002 to 2016.

Mayfield’s catalog includes live recordings at the prestigious Blue Note Jazz Club, the Village Vanguard, and most recently a live recording at the Newport Jazz Festival.

Domestically, Mayfield has headlined all major performing arts centers including Carnegie Hall and has twice performed at the White House for presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama.

Internationally, Mayfield has headlined major Jazz festivals from North Sea in Europe to the Sydney Jazz Festival in Australia and has toured extensively throughout four continents.

Mayfield has authored two coffee table books, A Love Letter to New Orleans and New Orleans Jazz Playhouse, and has received an honorary doctorate from Dillard University.

Mayfield was nominated by President George W. Bush and appointed by President Barrack Obama to the National Council on the Arts. He was also nominated for an NAACP Image Award for his recording with Dee Dee Bridgewater.