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

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.