Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Revue ft. Michael Watson and Sasha Mazakowski - Jackson Square, French Quarter Fest, New Orleans, LA - April 9, 2011

[from New Orleans] Irvin Mayfield is a good-looking slick guy in a suit who convinced the crowd that we need to visit his jazz club – the band was made up of a set of similarly slick brass players, a piano player, an all-grins banjo player, and three peacocked up females who inexplicably sat at the side of the stage for most of the set – there was also an adorable little boy with his own trombone that he would play every and now then when he wasn’t standing stoically – Michael Watson, also a trombone player, was a tall drink of water with a butter voice – he reminded me of Marvin Gaye – Sasha Mazakowski, daughter of some famous guitar player, was an exceedingly and obnoxiously hip girl with giant sunglasses who sang her admittedly pretty sad-mysterious jazz with more hand emoting than voice power – her voice wasn’t bad but I couldn’t get over her awareness of herself