were all too commonplace in the Deep South of 1930s America. Meeropol took the song to Barney Josephson who was owner of the very liberal Café Society in Greenwich Village: "Strange Fruit" was a ...

Irvin Mayfield: conductor, trumpet; Barney Floyd, Eric Lucero, Leon Brown, Lionel Valadares: trumpet; Darryl Reeves, Aaron Fletcher: alto saxophone; Calvin Johnson ...