Poorman Mayfield Music Group

Poorman Mayfield Music Group was an independent record label established in New Orleans in 2009 by trumpeter, composer, bandleader, and educator Irvin Mayfield. The label formed part of Mayfield's broader effort to develop and promote New Orleans music through performance, education, cultural institutions, and recording projects. Its known catalog activity included the release of Amanda Shaw's album Good Southern Girl in 2010. The label emerged during a period when Mayfield was highly active across several parts of the New Orleans cultural ecosystem. He had helped establish Los Hombres Calientes in 1998, founded the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra in 2002, and developed projects intended to present New Orleans jazz and related traditions to wider audiences. His work combined local cultural advocacy with national and international performance, including appearances at major festivals and concert venues. Poorman Mayfield Music Group can therefore be understood as a small artist-centered label connected to Mayfield's ambitions as a musician, producer, and cultural entrepreneur rather than as a large commercial music company. The label's documented release activity is limited in the available reference material. Good Southern Girl, by Amanda Shaw, is identified as a 2010 release, but no broader roster, distribution network, financial results, or complete catalog is established by the supplied sources. Other albums associated with Mayfield's career were issued by labels including Basin Street Records, World Village, Okeh, and Half Note, and should not automatically be attributed to Poorman Mayfield Music Group. Poorman Mayfield Music Group closed in 2014. Its operating history overlapped with Mayfield's work on the People's Health New Orleans Jazz Market, a performing-arts venue and community center opened in 2015 by Mayfield and the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra. The label's later history is also distinct from the New Orleans Library Foundation controversy involving Mayfield and the orchestra. That matter concerned alleged diversion and misuse of nonprofit funds and ultimately led to federal charges and Mayfield's 2021 imprisonment; the available material does not establish that the record label itself was a party to the alleged conduct.

Poorman Mayfield Music Group was founded in 2009 by Irvin Mayfield, a New Orleans trumpeter and composer whose career extended across performance, recording, education, nonprofit arts administration, and cultural advocacy. The label was created within a wider network of New Orleans music initiatives associated with Mayfield, including Los Hombres Calientes and the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra. Mayfield began performing in the late 1980s with the Algiers Brass Band and later became known for projects connecting traditional New Orleans music with jazz, Afro-Cuban influences, rhythm and blues, and orchestral composition. In 1998 he helped form Los Hombres Calientes, which recorded for Basin Street Records. In 2002 he founded the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra as a nonprofit ensemble dedicated to performing and promoting New Orleans jazz. These activities gave Mayfield experience in artist collaboration, production, institutional fundraising, and audience development, all of which provided context for establishing his own label. The available record identifies Amanda Shaw's Good Southern Girl as a Poorman Mayfield Music Group release from 2010. The supplied material does not provide a complete catalog or detailed information about the label's staffing, distribution arrangements, recording facilities, or commercial performance. Mayfield's other documented albums were generally released through outside labels, so the existence of those recordings does not demonstrate that they belonged to the Poorman Mayfield catalog. The label closed in 2014. Around the same period, Mayfield and the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra were developing the People's Health New Orleans Jazz Market, which opened in 2015 as a performance venue, community center, education site, and home for a New Orleans jazz archive. The label should be treated as one component of Mayfield's broader cultural-enterprise activity, not as synonymous with the orchestra or the later Jazz Market. Mayfield's public career was later overshadowed by the New Orleans Library Foundation case. Investigations and federal proceedings alleged that Mayfield and Ronald Markham directed nonprofit funds toward the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra and related purposes while holding leadership roles in both organizations. Mayfield was indicted in 2017 and sentenced in 2021 to 18 months in prison for fraud. The supplied references do not state that Poorman Mayfield Music Group itself was charged, sued, or directly involved in the alleged misuse of library funds.

• 2014

  Operations ended

  [1]Irvin Mayfielden.wikipedia.org

  The label closed after approximately five years of activity.

• 2010

  Good Southern Girl released

  [1]Irvin Mayfielden.wikipedia.org

  Amanda Shaw's Good Southern Girl was released through the label.

• 2009

  Label founded

  [1]Irvin Mayfielden.wikipedia.org

  Irvin Mayfield established Poorman Mayfield Music Group as an independent New Orleans record label.

A New Orleans-centered independent record label associated with Irvin Mayfield's artist-development and cultural-promotion activities.

• Album · 2010

  Good Southern Girl

  Good Southern Girl is an album by Amanda Shaw identified in the available reference material as a 2010 release on Poorman Mayfield Music Group. It is the clearest documented example of the label's recorded-music output and indicates that the company operated as an artist-release label rather than solely as a vehicle for Mayfield's own recordings.

• 2015

  New Orleans Library Foundation controversy

  News reports alleged that Irvin Mayfield and Ronald Markham used overlapping leadership positions at the New Orleans Library Foundation and the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra to direct more than one million dollars in library-related donations toward the orchestra and associated projects. The available references describe investigations, repayment discussions, a federal indictment in 2017, and Mayfield's 2021 fraud sentence. They do not establish that Poorman Mayfield Music Group itself was implicated as an entity.

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1. 1Irvin Mayfielden.wikipedia.org