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Name	Irvin Mayfield
First Name	Irvin
Last Name	Mayfield
Occupation	Bandleader
Birthday	December 23
Birth Year	1977
Place of Birth	New Orleans
Home Town	New Orleans
Birth Country	United States
Birth Sign	Aquarius
Full/Birth Name
Parents	Joyce Alsanders, Irvin Mayfield
Siblings	Not Available
Spouse	Not Known
Children(s)	Not Available

Irvin Mayfield Biography

Irvin Mayfield is one of the most popular and richest Bandleader who was born on December 23, 1977 in New Orleans, New Orleans, United States. Mayfield has performed at Carnegie Hall, Sydney Jazz Festival Australia, North Sea Jazzfestival Europe, and New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. In 2004 Mayfield composed Strange Fruit, a 90-minute opus based on Billie Holidays recording “Strange Fruit” in 1939. The music combines jazz elements with negro spirituals and classical music. The work is reminiscent of Wynton Marsalis’s Blood on the Fields and All Rise, and the storyline features a doomed interracial romance in 1920s Louisiana. The composition was supported by Dillard University.

In 2009, Mayfield founded the Poorman Mayfield Music Group record label which released the Amanda Shaw album Good Southern Girl in 2010. The label closed in 2014.

He and the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra opened The People’s Health New Orleans Jazz Market in 2015. The New Orleans Jazz Market is a performing arts venue and Jazz community center in Central City New Orleans. The Jazz Market features music education experiences for all ages and hosts a New Orleans Jazz Archive.

In 2002, Mayfield founded the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra, a sixteen-piece jazz ensemble as a nonprofit organization dedicated to perform and promote New Orleans Jazz. In 2016 he stepped down as artistic director.

In 1998, Mayfield helped found Los Hombres Calientes, a New Orleans jazz group that incorporates Afro-Cuban jazz with rhythm & blues. Original members include Mayfield, Bill Summers, and Jason Marsalis. Shortly after forming, the band signed with Basin Street Records, a record label in New Orleans and published five albums over the years.

In 2005 he joined Wynton Marsalis at the Higher Ground Hurricane Relief Benefit Concert in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In 2006 Mayfield performed at the White House in Washington, D.C.. Mayfield was nominated to the National Council on the Arts by President George W. Bush and was appointed to the post by President Barack Obama in 2010.

Irvin Mayfield Net Worth

Irvin is one of the richest Bandleader from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Irvin Mayfield's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: January 13, 2024)

Mayfield started his musical career in the late 1980s with the Algiers Brass Band, a traditional New Orleans based street act. He graduated from New Orleans Center for Creative Arts NOCCA, and was offered a scholarship to the Juilliard School of Music, but he decided to attend the University of New Orleans instead. At the University of New Orleans he dropped out during his first semester.

Net Worth	$5 Million
Salary	Under Review
Source of Income	Bandleader
Cars	Not Available
House	Living in own house.

In October 2018, the State of Louisiana released an audit covering 2009-2016 of the New Orleans Jazz Market and New Orleans Jazz Orchestra financial and organization records that concluded that funds provided by the State of Louisiana and City of New Orleans may have been misappropriated and therefore could be in violation of state law.

Irvin Mayfield (born in New Orleans, Louisiana) is the youngest of nine children from Joyce Alsanders and Irvin Mayfield, Sr. Joyce Alsanders was a schoolteacher in New Orleans’ Upper Ninth Ward. His father, Irvin Mayfield, Sr., was a drill sergeant in the United States Army and a boxer who died in the flood after Hurricane Katrina. Growing up, he played organ at his church and received his first trumpet when he was in the fourth grade.

Ethnicity, religion & political views

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Mayfield was implicated in account records investigated by the United States Attorney’s office involving the New Orleans Library Foundation and a payment to the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra. In May 2015 Irvin Mayfield was accused of scandal involving unethical use of non-profit funds. The scandal first erupted when WWL-TV, a CBS affiliate, revealed that Irvin Mayfield and Ronald Markham rewrote the bylaws of the Library Foundation board so they could divert funds to New Orleans Jazz Orchestra which was also led by Mayfield and Markham. WWL further revealed that Mayfield spent $18,000 of foundation money on a five-night trip to New York in 2012. As president of the Library Foundation, and with Markham on its board, Mayfield steered more than $1 million of library donations toward the $10 million cost of constructing the Peoples Health New Orleans Jazz Market and other projects. Mayfield and Markham resigned from the Library Foundation shortly after this was reported. In May 2016 Mayfield and the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra reached an agreement to pay $483,000 of that money back to the Library Foundation over a period of five years, and NOJO also pledged to raise the rest of the $1.1 million through benefit concerts. In July 2016 Mayfield resigned as artistic director of the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra. On April 13, 2017, WWLTV reported that FBI and the Inspector General’s office are seeking information from the New Orleans Library Foundation as it continues its investigation into jazz musician Irvin Mayfield.

Who is Irvin Mayfield Dating?

According to our records, Irvin Mayfield is possibily single & has not been previously engaged. As of January 13, 2024, Irvin Mayfield’s is not dating anyone.

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Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Irvin Mayfield was indicted on December 14, 2017, by a federal grand jury on 19 counts including fraud, conspiracy and money laundering. The indictment also named Ronald Markham as co-defendant. The indictment alleged that he and Markham steered nearly $1.4 million from the New Orleans Public Library Foundation’s Board to the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra or to enriched themselves between 2011 and 2013, while serving in leadership roles on both organization’s boards. Among other things,the indictment alleges Mayfield spent the money on a 24-karat gold-plated trumpet. Mayfield is also alleged to have spent thousands in donations on travel expenses the library foundation said were not connected with library business, including tens of thousands on hotel expenses in New York. The indictments against Mayfield and Markham includes four counts of wire fraud, 11 counts of money laundering and one count of obstruction of justice.

Top Facts about Irvin Mayfield

Irvin Mayfield is an American jazz trumpeter and composer.
He was born on December 23, 1977 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Mayfield has released over 15 albums as a bandleader.
He won two Grammy Awards for his album “Book One” in 2009.
Mayfield served as the artistic director of the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra.
He was accused of misusing funds from a charity he founded in 2015.
In 2018, Mayfield pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering.
He was sentenced to six months in prison and ordered to pay restitution.
Mayfield’s case sparked controversy within the New Orleans music community.
Despite his legal troubles, he remains a respected figure in jazz music.

Facts & Trivia

Irvin Ranked on the list of most popular Bandleader. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Irvin Mayfield celebrates birthday on December 23 of every year.

Where is Irvin Mayfield now?

NEW ORLEANS — Grammy-winning jazz musician Irvin Mayfield and his business partner Ronald Markham are now both in federal prison, starting 18-month prison terms nearly seven years after WWL-TV first exposed their transfer of more than $1 million from a public library fund.

How old is Irvin Mayfield?

44 years (December 23, 1977)

Is Irvin Mayfield going to jail?

Irvin Mayfield sentenced to 18 months in prison after blaming ‘ego’ for defrauding New Orleans library fund.

Is Baker Mayfield in trouble with the law?

Oklahoma quarterback Baker Mayfield has formally apologized for his arrest over the weekend. Mayfield was arrested Saturday on charges of public intoxication, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest, per the Washington County sheriff’s office (h/t ESPN’s Jake Trotter).

What is Baker Mayfield salary?

Current Contract Baker Mayfield signed a 4 year, $32,682,980 contract with the Cleveland Browns, including a $21,849,440 signing bonus, $32,682,980 guaranteed, and an average annual salary of $8,170,745.

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