Irvin Mayfield – born December 23, 1977 in New Orleans, Louisiana – is a
trumpeter, bandleader, composer and educator. His musical career began when he
joined the Algiers Brass Band in the late 1980s. After he graduated from New
Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA), he was offered a scholarship to attend
Julliard School of Music. However, Mayfield chose to attend the University of
New Orleans and then dropped out during his first semester. He was the
co-founder of New Orleans jazz band Los Hombres Calientes, an Afro-Cuban jazz
band that formed in 1998. Mayfield would go on to...