"I came back to find that the club I was proud to play for completely stripped of the top brass if you like, the chief executive Mike Fatkin and the head groundsman Len Smith, " Walker added.

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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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Zombie walks, are one thing, of course, but I have the feeling Zombie Brass Bands are uniquely New Orleans.

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The sessions I attended, in a room called Brass Monkey (the theme was New York bars), had the aspect of a nerdy summer camp.

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But as I wrote on 12 July, simply changing the name on the brass plate above a parading quango's door is no guarantee of success.

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Unidentified Woman: (Singing) I climbed the peaks of glass with you and walked a world of brass with you.

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"I wish you success, " he told the French as a Malian brass band, their instruments poorly tuned, worked their way through a marching chorale.

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