Irvin Mayfield Strange Fruit (Live)
Down Beat: "Mayfield creates a storyline that evokes and expands the sentiments of the song Billie Holiday made famous."
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CD Details
- Released: March 28, 2005
- Originally Released: 2005
- Label: Basin Street Records
Entertainment Reviews:
Down Beat - p.70
"Mayfield creates a storyline that evokes and expands the sentiments of the song Billie Holiday made famous."JazzTimes - pp.104-105
"[B]rilliantly performed....Wendell Pierce ably narrates the plot about a fictional lynching in his deep bass, allowing Mayfield to illustrate single moments of piercing emotion..."Tracks:
- 1.Movement 1: Narration #1
- 2.Movement 1: Intro / Opening Statements
- 3.Movement 1: The Beginning of the End
- 4.Movement II: Narration #2
- 5.Movement II: Oral Traditions of the South
- 6.Movement II: The Elder Negro Speaks
- 7.Movement III: Narration #3
- 8.Movement III: Color Lines
- 9.Movement IV: Narration #4
- 10.Movement IV: Ballad of the Hot Long Night
- 11.Movement V: Narration #5/Beat
- 12.Movement VI: Narration #6
- 13.Movement VI: The Lynch Mob (You'd Better Run Boy Run)
- 14.Movement VI: Hoopin' and Hollerin
- 15.Movement VII: Narration #7
- 16.Movement VII: The Prayer / Final Words
- 17.Movement VIII: Narration #8
- 18.Movement VIII: The Sacrifice / The Mourning
- 19.Movement IX: Narration #9/Falling Leaves Yet Growing Trees / Ah Yes ...
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- UPC: 652905040423
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