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A mentally handicapped teen called Shavers his girlfriend -- the same thing the boy said to all of the neighborhood women, who knew him and went along with it.
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In the winter of 2007, beloved New Orleans residents filmmaker Helen Hill and drummer Dinerral Shavers were among the victims lost to violence.
Karen Dalton-Beninato: Milneberg Joys and Losses: Treme 15 Karen Dalton-Beninato 2011
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In the winter of 2007, beloved New Orleans residents filmmaker Helen Hill and drummer Dinerral Shavers were among the victims lost to violence.
Karen Dalton-Beninato: Milneberg Joys and Losses: Treme 15 Karen Dalton-Beninato 2011
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The episode ends as Antoine hears from Terrell Batiste of The Hot 8 that bandmate Dinerral Shavers, a New Orleans bandleader, has been shot and killed in crossfire.
Karen Dalton-Beninato: Treme 14: Renewed, Attacked and Sazerac'd Karen Dalton-Beninato 2011
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The episode ends as Antoine hears from Terrell Batiste of The Hot 8 that bandmate Dinerral Shavers, a New Orleans bandleader, has been shot and killed in crossfire.
Karen Dalton-Beninato: Treme 14: Renewed, Attacked and Sazerac'd Karen Dalton-Beninato 2011
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In the winter of 2007, beloved New Orleans residents filmmaker Helen Hill and drummer Dinerral Shavers were among the victims lost to violence.
Karen Dalton-Beninato: Milneberg Joys and Losses: Treme 15 Karen Dalton-Beninato 2011
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(To me, Wynton Marsalis sounds more like Shavers than any other trumpeter.)
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Shavers, the youngest member, would go onto a stellar career as one of the great unsung heroes of jazz, a prodigiously gifted brassman and composer-arranger who never quite became a star or leader on his own though he could handily outplay and out-write nearly all the competition.
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Shavers was responsible for most of the Sextet's signature charts, but it was Kirby, along with his wife, singer Maxine Sullivan, who helped launch the vogue for swinging treatments of traditional songs and classical themes.
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That makes me remember musician Dinerral Shavers and filmmaker Helen Hill, both lost to senseless violence in the years after the levee failure.
Karen Dalton-Beninato: Strangled By a Haunted Social Scene: The Treme Season Finale 2010
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