Dee Dee Bridgewater, Irvin Mayfield and the NOJO Head to the Apollo for NEW ORLEANS MASQUERADE This Halloween

After a sold-out weekend last year, Irvin Mayfield and The New Orleans Jazz Orchestra (NOJO) return to Harlem for the New York Premiere of the brand new CD (DEE DEE'S FEATHERS) with one of today's great jazz vocalists Dee Dee Bridgewater (THE WIZ).

The Apollo Theater hosts the NEW ORLEANS MASQUERADE AND AFTER-PARTY this Halloween, October 31, 2015 at 7:30 pm.

An after-party will be held at 10 p.m. as part of the Apollo Music Café's lineup, featuring Irvin Mayfield's Jazz Playhouse with Brass-A-Holics, a young and innovative Go-Go brass funk band. Doors and bar will open at 9 p.m.

The night before the Halloween concert (October 30th), Apollo Music Café will welcome Bridgewater, Mayfield and The New Orleans Jazz Orchestra alongside vocalists Jazzmeia Horn, Camille Thurman and Glorious.

DEE DEE'S FEATHERS, a journey through the history of New Orleans as told through song and the collaboration of Tony winner Bridgewater, Mayfield and The New Orleans Jazz Orchestra, was released on August 11th, 2015, via OKeh/Sony Music/DDB Records.

Although steeped in history, DEE DEE'S FEATHERS is at the same time a modern exploration of the music and culture that makes New Orleans a city and place unlike any other. Traditional songs such as "Big Chief" (featuring guest artist Dr. John), "Saint James Infirmary" and "What A Wonderful World" - all songs indicative to and steeped in the culture of the Big Easy -- co-mingle with new compositions such as "Congo Square" and "C'est Ici Que Je T'aime," transporting the listener on a sensory voyage through the city, whether dancing in a Second Line or frequenting a storied bordello in the heart of the city's French Quarter.