NPR's Bob Edwards and band leader David Byrne look back at the band and the music.
Band leader Craig Minowa says the artists are just as much a part of the group as their musicians.
Band leader Mawangu Mingiedi realized he could make his likembe louder using makeshift amplifiers hooked up to car batteries.
He thinks Victor Cruz was a 1950s band leader (OK. I thought Victor Cruz was a 1950s band leader till the start of this season).
Fascinated by the '20s and '30s, she traveled at age 16 to Williams College in Massachusetts to visit the archives of jazz-age band leader Paul Whiteman.
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When band leader Orlando Marin told his group they had their first gig, they almost couldn't go because the piano player couldn't get permission from his mother.
Announcer Ed McMahon and band leader Skitch Henderson (predecessor of Doc Severinsen and gone a year later) killed time rapping with the audience and goofing around with the band.
Swing-band leader Tommy Dorsey, who gave Sinatra his start, leads the eighth rendition with a meandering, almost oriental, tempo, each phrasing revealing yet another facet of his orchestra.
Band leader Carlos Santana has been chosen as the recipient of the annual Billboard Magazine "Century" award to be given out at the Billboard awards ceremony in December.
Monson's husband is Cirque du Soleil band leader Paul Shihadeh -- they met in a green room -- and she says their two sons have a "crazy life" due to the scheduling challenges of their work.
Though he grew up in a home that revered show tunes and was regularly taken to Broadway, the jam band leader had to learn the hard way that what he did in Phish didn't translate to the musical stage.
Eckstine's sensibilities were too hot for what was desirable in the 1940s and 1950s, while his talents--as a voice and band leader, but not a musician who could actually play bebop or rock and roll--were too limited for the eras that followed.
Hide was not the band's leader, but he was in some ways its spiritual center.
First conceived by Axl Rose, the band's leader, in 1994, the work features plenty of the driving rhythms, slashing guitars and screeching falsetto vocals beloved by the band's fans.
Born in Nottingham, England, in 1944, Lee was the leader of the band Ten Years After.
In Yekaterinburg, a city 200km (125 miles) north of Chelyabinsk, the leader of rock band Smysloviye Gallyutsinatsii (Sonic Hallucinations) shared his impressions in a post on social media.
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Mr. Barbier was the leader of the "Band of Five" who arrived in Priorat some 25 years ago.
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President Chester A. Arthur, who served from 1881 to 1885, directed the leader of the Marine Band to compose a new one to replace it.
S2 pupils at Doon Academy in Dalmellington, East Ayrshire, interviewed the leader of the town band, who is a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE).
Fortunately for Arthur, the leader of the Marine Band at the time was a pretty fair songwriter -- a young Marine sergeant major by the name of John Philip Sousa.
She quite vocally relays her opinion of Allen's every move, even suggesting at one point that he needs to start conversing with everybody in the band, not just the nominal leader, banjo player Eddy Davis.
He is the leader of a local rock band call Dusty and the RoboDrum.
"Our only mission was to be here, be seen and have fun, " said Darwin Smith, leader of the New York band Darwin Deez.
"It is another challenge, " said Par Molen, the leader of the "corporation" Band of Brothers (BoB), who got the late-night call.
Sunset Rubdown's Spencer Krug is known primarily for his role as co-leader of the masterful carnival-rock band Wolf Parade.
Hood, the leader of the Athens, Georgia-based band the Drive-By Truckers, has thought about Southern images deeply.
Thomas Kingsmill, from Goudhurst, took over as leader, however, the gang was defeated by the Goudhurst Band of Militia and their influence in the area was greatly reduced.
Watson and Fowler make up half of golf's only boy band, the Golf Boys, along with Ben Crane and FedEx Cup leader Hunter Mahan.
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