アーヴィン・メイフィールド (Irvin Mayfield)

Irvin Mayfield
Irvin Mayfield, Jr. (born September 7, 1977 (1977-09-07) (age 30)) is an American jazz trumpeter and bandleader. He has been serving as Cultural Ambassador of the City of New Orleans since 2003. He co-founded and has co-led the Afro-Cuban jazz group Los Hombres Calientes since 1998. Their debut album won Billboard's 2000 Contemporary Latin Jazz Album of the Year. Mayfield has released ten albums since 1998, and has played at prominent Jazz Festivals during his career.

In 2002 he founded and became Artistic Director of The New Orleans Jazz Institute. Working out of the Institute is a 501(c)(3) jazz ensemble called The New Orleans Jazz Orchestra or NO JO, also founded and directed by Mayfield. The orchestra made its debut in the same year the Institution was founded. In September of 2003, Mayfield was unanimously bestowed with the title of Cultural Ambassador for the City of New Orleans by the United States Senate and other governmental bodies. His performance at the Higher Ground Hurricane Relief Benefit Concert gained national attention in syndication...
(Wikipedia: Irvin Mayfield)