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Drummer's Funeral Underlines New Orleans Violence Drummer Dinerral Shavers was shot and killed just after Christmas while driving with his wife and child in New Orleans. His group — the Hot 8 Brass Band — played a jazz funeral in New Orleans Saturday... and not for the first time.

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Drummer's Funeral Underlines New Orleans Violence

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Matt Sakakeeny

Drummer's Funeral Underlines New Orleans Violence

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Drummer Dinerral Shavers was shot and killed just after Christmas while driving with his wife and child in New Orleans. So his group — the Hot 8 Brass Band — played a jazz funeral in New Orleans Saturday. It's the third time in its 10-year history the band has played a funeral for one of its own members.