The New Orleans Jazz Orchestra was founded by jazz trumpeter Irvine Mayfield in
2002. 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
Juilliard School of Music. He was the co-founder of New Orleans jazz band Los
Hombres Calientes, an Afro-Cuban jazz band that formed in 1998. He founded the
New Orleans Jazz Orchestra in 20...