The Mingus Big Band is a hot band at any time, and on this night, it added extra star power, featuring Ku-umba Frank Lacy on trombone and vocals, Randy Brecker on trumpet, Vincent Herring on sax, Dave Kikoski on piano and Jeff "Tain" Watts on drums.

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The next day's service, at Fifth African Baptist, was for Dinerral Shavers, 25, a snare drummer with the Hot 8 brass band.

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Mr. RAYMOND WILLIAMS (Trumpet, Hot 8 Brass Band): I'd like to just go back on the history of the music because coming up as a young musician, I didn't know much about the music - the history of the New Orleans' music or just music in general - how the music developed here in America.

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Mr. BENNIE PETE (Tuba Player, Hot 8 Brass Band): We knew they were there because that's where they were housing the evacuees, and we just showed up and, you know, we were going there with - on our mind to kind of just show what we had, to share with each other that we were united.

NPR: Hot 8 Brass Band Play For A Living New Orleans

They want to wire the block-long park with electricity so they could run a lawnmower, maybe bring out a band on a hot summer night, or install a few power outlets so residents could recharge an iPad while they hang out.

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In fact, if you want to take advantage of the drum kit, guitar and microphone in the hot-selling Xbox 360, PlayStation 2, and PlayStation 3 title "Rock Band" it helps to have more than a few friends.

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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.

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At the same time as the main awards ceremony in the Odyssey Arena, Northern Ireland band Snow Patrol were playing a free gig to 15, 000 people at City Hall, with Red Hot Chili Peppers performing at the Ulster Hall.

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