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And it is a beat that has seen and heard the sounds of the world. Late-night sessions at the Summers residence resulted in the 1998 formation of Los Hombres Calientes. With a countless number of rhythms in his vast repertoire, Summers makes the heart of Los Hombres Calientes beat. His most recent project with NOJO, The People’s Health New Orleans Jazz Market stands as the only club in the city of New Orleans specifically designed for Jazz Market. Summers, who has worked with musical pioneers ranging from Quincy Jones to Herbie Hancock in his long, illustrious career, shares in Mayfield’s thirst to uncover the musical roots of New Orleans’ cultural tree of life. With his club Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse he ensures that Jazz will remain on Bourbon Street in the heart of the French Quarter. Led by Irvin Mayfield, the renowned Crescent City trumpeter, and Bill Summers, a percussionist who quite simply embodies world-wide rhythm, Los Hombres Calientes is not only changing the way music sounds, but also how music is made. Taking a hands-on, organic approach in putting together their five albums, Volumes 1-5, Mayfield and Summers take their band on location and join forces with locals in order to create authentic sounds from the places where music began: locations such as Africa, Cuba, Trinidad, Jamaica, Haiti and, of course, their native New Orleans. Mayfield, has positioned himself as a force and advocate for the continuation of Jazz in the city that birthed it, as artistic director of the non-profit The New Orleans Jazz Orchestra, he ensures that the sounds of New Orleans are spread around the country. Like a rich, flavorful New Orleans gumbo, Los Hombres Calientes packs a little bit of everything into a tasty, powerful recipe that warms the body and feeds the soul.