Anticipating Treme aka "Tremé" - David Simon and his buddies do post-Katrina N.O.

I don't like blues and jazz :(. I mean, I like it well enough (roots of all music and all that(, but a series full of it/about it doesn't sound like my bag. Sigh.

The 10- or 12-part drama

does that mean it's a one-season / miniseries type deal?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jH_KkUyZsw

SO EXCITED YOU GUYS

i'm excited but it's a little disconcerting how this seems custom-tailored to my tastes. i'm either going to love it or hate it. or enjoy it while nitpicking about the music and musicians involved in it.

also it's going to be weird if all the wire fans are talking about new orleans brass bands and second lines in a few months.

i am looking forward to your contributions on this thread once this show actually exists, Jordan!

is khandi alexander still going to be in this? i shall look it up. think of khandi alexander!!!

she is!

i love khandi alexander!

right?

yes!

Alto Sax: Life on the Street.

There's an extremely short clip of actual show footage in this video at 1:50
http://www.spoilertv.com/2010/01/hbo-2010-promo.html?utm_source=f..
Also features a quick look at Boardwalk Empire

that was filmed at this second line: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAtHKqCMbks

JOHN GOODMAN is in this

now officially psyched

i admit it me too

he went from a fake john goodman to the real deal!

so excited about this show! starts in april yes?

went to a second line on saturday being filmed for this show (it was supposed to be a re-enactment of the first post-katrina second line, i think). bunk was pushing a stroller with a fake baby, steve zahn was dancing outside of the ropes, and khandi alexander showed up for a minute. maybe i'll put up some video my gf took.

Trailer
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/archives/2010/03/here_is_the_tra_1.php

JOHN GOODMAN is in this

― max, Thursday, January 14, 2010 6:54 PM

now officially psyched

― max, Thursday, January 14, 2010 6:54 PM

nice trailer too

Nice scene (with commentary you can fade or turn off) courtesy of the NYT, which also has a great article

melissa leo? SOLD

matt saracen's mum too

Sorry, links weren't working.

Article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/21/magazine/21simon-t.html?ref=magazine
Scene: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/03/17/magazine/20100321-treme-feature.html?ref=magazine

http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/03/the_new_new_treme_trailer_walt.html
a bunch of the scenes in this trailer were filmed at the bar i work at, which i guess makes sense as kermit ruffins is all over this but hey, vaughan's! and my reservations re this show are dissipating the more footage i see.
― adam, Wednesday, March 17, 2010 4:08 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

brought this over for completeness, fantastic trailer, cheers adam

yeah, gotta admit it looks good. i recognize some scenes from that second line i was at.

this could be seriously awesome. i hope they take a pretty low-key approach. i would love a neorealist hbo drama.

also is hbo really upping their budget/ante recently? they have projects from david simon, milch/michael mann/dustin hoffman, kathryn bigelow, todd haynes, martin scorsese, etc. etc.

it's like the read all the articles about the "death of adult drama" in hollywood and decided to compensate in a big way. kudos.

not to mention another spielberg/hanks wwii retread (seriously what IS it w/ spielberg and wwii?!)

read that NYT magazine article about a week ago and i'm really, really excited about this

That NYT thing focused way too much on network notes (or lack thereof). A really odd focal point.

also is hbo really upping their budget/ante recently? they have projects from david simon, milch/michael mann/dustin hoffman, kathryn bigelow, todd haynes, martin scorsese, etc. etc.

Noticed this too - a far cry from Tell Me You Love Me, In Treatment, Bored to Death, and so on. Maybe the success of True Blood gave them more cash and/or guts to really go for a bigger budget dramatic series.

I'm just glad that deal they signed with Oprah a year or two ago didn't lead to anything.

That NYT thing focused way too much on network notes (or lack thereof). A really odd focal point.

― Jouster, Sunday, March 28, 2010 9:08 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark

eh i don't know; thought the article was great and that the notes were something in microcosm that encompasses a) hbo being 'different', b) simon as auteur, c) studying the writing process & priorities of the show

not gonna comment on this one way or the other, but this is from curmudgeon's interview with hot 8's tuba player (linked on the brass band thread):

BP: No we are not in the Treme movie. They are not paying the musicians enough money to do it and they are just like a lot of people who came to the city after the storm. They say we don’t have much money but we can get you a lot of exposure and we can help tell the world your story and then smile and tap you on your back and send you home broke to your family.

'Treme' writer David Mills dies of brain aneurysm

same guy who did the famous sister soulja interview too iirc

tuba dude might have an unrealistic idea about how much people could or should get paid to be in a cable TV series because he thinks it's a movie tbh. this and The Wire are not really megabudget productions.

When does this actually start?

11 apr

4/11 for americans (never 4get)

11/4 for britishes

I knew David Mills at the University of Maryland and wrote for his Uncut Funk fanzine years ago. Oh I had a few little disagreements with him on some things, but we always talked things though. I just forwarded him something by e-mail a few weeks ago. He wrote some great articles for the Washington Post and wrote for a number of tv shows. Aww man, this is shocking to me. RIP

I was just gonna post this piece about the show-

http://www.villagevoice.com/2010-03-30/music/how-treme-can-get-it-right/

THE VILLAGE VOICE
March 30, 2010

How Treme Can Get It Right
David Simon's new HBO series uses fiction to honor New Orleans'
surreal, heart-breaking fact

By Larry Blumenfeld

Wow, can't believe Mills is gone.

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/zontv/2010/03/david_mills_emmywinning_screen.html

goddamn that's fucking sad!

man :(

He is extremely irritating all the way to the finale. I was thinking he can't always be this bad and then he was even worse in that doomed Christian Slater vehicle.

God, the political brass-bounce band is painful to listen to.

this is the worst-ever show abt new orleans, including both real worlds and k-ville.

hey i liked k-ville!!

k-ville gave us the "gumbo party" so i cant hate too hard

i mean it was a cop show, i wasn't watching for documentary excellence

It's too bad the entire show isn't about Wendell Pierce.

finishing season 3, need to call attention to the conversation between journalist metal dude and girl in the line at the airport

her: (some question about music)
him: "yeah, some metal"
her: ??
him: "i like metal...and sea shanties"
she turns around
he smirks
hahaha that guy

http://grantland.com/features/david-simon-show-me-a-hero-hbo-the-wire-treme/

Food comes in, and Simon jokingly grumbles, “Do I look like a chicken-salad-eating motherfucker?!”

kind of

the more notable quote is you cannot make me give a fuck, said abt Grantlands dumb content article abt ranking Wire characters, which obv hes otm

Kind of looking back at this fondly now - episode to episode points could be bad and John Goodman/Steve Zahn were pretty awful but it was so good at the small-level humanist stuff (like The Wire). The growth of Goodman's daughter and the wife he left behind with her new husband, Wendell Pierce becoming a band director, the abusive junkie keyboard player turned shrimper. Even the Big Chief's son (no idea that was the kid from Finding Forrester!) became pretty interesting over the course of the show.

http://consequenceofsound.net/2015/06/stephen-colbert-picks-jon-batiste-as-late-show-bandleader/

A native of Louisiana and graduate of Julliard, Batiste is a big name in the worlds of jazz and blues music. A prolific solo musician in his own right, he’s also collaborated with Prince, Wynton Marsalis, Allen Toussaint, and Dr. John over the years. Batiste has a very charismatic personality, as seen on-stage with raucous live performances and off the stage in acting roles on HBO’s Treme and Spike Lee’s Red Hook Summer.