Irvin Mayfield With The New Orleans Jazz Orchestra And The Dillard University Choir – Strange Fruit

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Label:	Basin Street Records – BSR 0404-2
Format:	CD, Album
Country:	US
Released:	2005
Genre:	Jazz
Style:	Contemporary Jazz, Big Band

Tracklist

	Movement I
1	Narration #1	0:56
2	Intro / Opening Statements	6:10
3	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	4:03
	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

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Glass Mastered At – DADC – CTDX-001548

Credits

Choir – The Dillard University Choir
Conductor, Trumpet, Composed By – Irvin Mayfield
Directed By [Choir] – S. Carter Davenport
Engineer – Darryl Dickerson*
Executive-Producer – Mark Samuels
Executive-Producer [Associate] – Will Samuels
Liner Notes – Lucas Diaz (2)
Mastered By – Vlado Meller
Narrator – Wendell Pierce
Orchestra – The New Orleans Jazz Orchestra
Other [Cover Model] – Melissa Lavigne Fowler
Performer [New Orleans Jazz Orchestra], Alto Saxophone – Aaron Fletcher (2), Darryl Reeves
Performer [New Orleans Jazz Orchestra], Baritone Saxophone – Samir Zarif
Performer [New Orleans Jazz Orchestra], Bass – Neal Caine
Performer [New Orleans Jazz Orchestra], Drums – Troy Davis (2)
Performer [New Orleans Jazz Orchestra], Percussion – Rashidi Johnson
Performer [New Orleans Jazz Orchestra], Piano – Jonathan Batiste*, Victor Atkins
Performer [New Orleans Jazz Orchestra], Tenor Saxophone – Brice Winston, Calvin Johnson (7)
Performer [New Orleans Jazz Orchestra], Trombone – Steven Walker (2), Terrance Taplin, Troy Andrews
Performer [New Orleans Jazz Orchestra], Trumpet – Eric Lucero, Leon Brown, Lionel Valadares
Photography By – Jeff Strout
Producer, Mixed By – Delfeayo Marsalis

Notes

Total Running Time: 77:53

Strange Fruit was commissioned by Dillard University, New Orleans.
It had its world premiere on October 19, 2003, in Lawless Chapel at Dillard University.

Recorded live on March 19-20, 2004, at Lawless Chapel, Dillard University, New Orleans, LA.
Engineered at Artistic Studios, New Orleans, LA.
Cover model clothing provided by Saks Fifth Avenue, New Orleans, LA.

Irving Mayfield plays trumpets hand built by Dave Monette.

Irvin Mayfield Publishing (BMI)

©℗ 2005 Basin Street Records