As a special feature of our New Orleans Independent Bookstore Day celebration, please come meet Grammy and Billboard Award winner Irvin Mayfield when he performs and presents & signs NEW ORLEANS PLAYHOUSE, his just released 304-page coffee table book that includes seven CDs of live music recorded at his Bourbon Street Jazz club.
"With this book and these recordings, Irvin Mayfield connects our past and present with vignettes on three muses: truth, love, and beauty. As a son of New Orleans, as a trumpeting descendant of Buddy Bolden, as a proprietor of the most successful bona fide Jazz club on historic Bourbon Street, he is absolutely qualified to tell our story. He understands that if we are to remain ourselves, our story must be told and retold—remembered and reinvented—at each telling."
- Wynton Marsalis
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New Orleans piano entertainer Armand St. Martin will give a special afternoon performance at Octavia Books for 
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