October 01, 2023

Journey To Nawlins, Chapter X : Tremé : The Music, The Neighborhood, The Seriesb (About The Soundtrack From The HBO Original Series, Seasons 1 & 2)


Is music stronger than hurricanes ?
Before going any further, I must strongly encourage those who didn't or couldn't watch yet this fascinating series to do so by any mean (downloading, streaming * or... buying the DVDs separately or the complete box set). This is not compulsory to appreciate this great 2-CD soundtrack but it will put things in perspective.


Tremé, The Soundtrack
From the first track, The Tremé Song from John Boutté, New Orleans has been magically transported in your ears with her unmistakable musical identity that reflects her history and her plural culture (I use the possessive word “her” on purpose because the Crescent City, who spreads like a lazy reptile around the bends of the Mississippi River, is the almost-human central character of the series through its historic district of Tremé).

Jelly Roll Morton
She's totally present through the unique rhythmic patterns of the military drum roll, through the piano haunted by the spirits of Professor Longhair and of the long list of his New Orleans keyboard masters fellows (Jelly Roll Morton, Fats Domino, Huey "Piano" Smith, Eddie Bo, James Booker, Allen Toussaint, Dr. John...), and through the horns carrying a long tradition of jazz, marching brass bands, funeral parades and second line…

Second line, probably the most iconic musical tradition in New Orleans, is immediately summoned with the unmistakable sound of the Rebirth Brass Band performing Feel Like Funkin' It Up, a debauchery of funky drums and horns in a joyous noisy crowd atmosphere. It is followed by a retro Armstrong jazz tribute with I Hope You're Comin' Back To New Orleans from The New Orleans Jazz Vipers, by the Latin mood of the rejoicing Kermit Ruffins & The Barbecue Swingers on Skokiaan, and by brothers Trombone Shorty and James Andrews with their Mardi Gras cover of their grandfather Joe Hill's Ooh Poo Pah Doo… (see chapter IX)

Wendell Pierce as trombonist Antoine Batiste
And this journey continues in the same amazing way until the end of CD2. Kudos to the team who carefully chose each piece of this sumptuous soundtrack (David Simon, Eric Overmyer and Nina K. Noble, the first two being the creators and producers of the series). Each title of the soundtrack illustrates the twists and turns of the plot and the varying mood of the characters : a rare voyage through the incredibly rich musical pulse that kept New Orleans alive and kicking for generations.
Pierce listening to Huisman & Micarelli
The series (see details further below) features an incredible number of musicians, mainly from New Orleans, playing their own selves (so incredible that it would be too long to list here). Only a few musicians are played by actors : Wendell Pierce as trombonist Antoine Batiste, actor and musician Steve Zahn who embodies an offhand radio DJ, and sings the jubilant politically incorrect rock and R'n'B mixed Shame Shame Shame, Michiel Huisman and the very talented and moving violinist and actress Lucia Micarelli, both as a couple of street musicians.

Intensely rich in the variety of the musical New Orleans styles featured and in quality, the 37 tracks of the Tremé soundtrack two CDs grant a prominent space to the jazz horns of brass bands like Rebirth, Soul Rebels, Free Agents, New Birth, Tremé, Hot 8, Dirty Dozen.

Henry Butler
Pianists and horn players are particularly respected and revered in New Orleans, a city who loves her musicians like no other city. Pianists are well represented, the first word being given to Dr. John with My Indian Red. He is followed by Tom McDermott (New Orleans Blues with Lucia Micarelli, Heavy Henry with Evan Christopher and Lucia Micarelli), Michiel Huisman (with Lucia Micarelli and Wendell Pierce on I Don't Stand A Ghost Of A Chance With You, and on Sisters with John Boutté, Lucia Micarelli and Paul Sanchez), Allen Toussaint (with Irma Thomas on Time Is On My Side), David Torkanowsky (on Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most with Lucia Micarelli), Henry Butler (Mama Roux) and Jon Cleary (Frenchmen Street Blues).
Dr. John
The last word is again for Dr. John alone on piano and soulfully singing the nostalgic You Might Be Surprised with his unmistakable vocal signature, twisting and rolling syllables in his mouth.

Horn instruments are carried high by the hyperactive Kermit Ruffins, Trombone Shorty & James Andrews, Louis Prima (though he merely sings here), Donald Harrison, Evan Christopher, Glen David Andrews and Aurora Nealand.

Fictional Chief Albert Lambreaux
Mardi-Gras Indians, another unique specificity of New Orleans, have an important role in the series, symbolized by one of the prominent and most moving characters, Albert "Big Chief" Lambreaux (played by actor Clarke Peters), whose fictional name indeed reminds the real "Big Chief" Monk Boudreaux. The iconic Mardi-Gras Indian song Indian Red is featured no less than three times in three different versions by Dr. John, the Mardi Gras Indians (that's the least !) and jazz saxophonist and tribe chief himself, Donald Harrison.
Al "Carnival Time" Johnson
Mardi-Gras songs are not forgotten with tracks as Al Johnson's iconic Carnival Time and the excellent Hu Ta Nay by Donald Harrison mixing jazz with traditional Indian chants.

Latin and particularly Cuban influences confirm that the city is naturally turned towards the East : the Caribbean Islands first across the (Mexican) Gulf, and further, across the Atlantic, Europe through her French and Spanish history.
Louis Prima
These influences appear through tracks like Kermit Ruffins & The Barbecue Swingers' Skokiaan, Louis Prima's Italian-flavored Buona Sera, The Iguanas' Oye, Isabel, or Sisters by John Boutté with Michiel Huisman, Lucia Micarelli and Paul Sanchez.
Country music influences can be heard through Steve Earle (his magnificent This City), The Subdudes (Carved in Stone), The Radiators (Long Hard Journey Home).

Juvenile
Introduced by the younger generations, hip-hop and rap cohabit with more traditional styles with Juvenile, teamed up with the funk band Galactic and the famous Dirty Dozen Brass Band for From the Corner to the Block, or with the fictional band DJ Davis & The Brassy Knoll on Road Home.

Steve Riley
The Voodoo culture of New Orleans, generally more directly related to the French Quarter, is only slightly evoked through Henry Butler's version of Mama Roux (very different from the iconic cover by Dr. John).
Finally there are unclassifiable, multifaceted musicians at ease in different styles, on top of whom is the talented John Boutté, closely followed by Lucia Micarelli and Michiel Huisman.

Steve Earle & Lucia Micarelli
at the Faquetaique
“Courir de Mardi Gras”
Some listeners will probably find incomprehensible that Zydeco and Cajun are missing. The reason is simple : they are not part of the urban musical tradition of the city, and of Tremé in particular. Their roots are in the rural areas of South-West Louisiana, particularly the bayou country. And, though they regularly perform in town, Zydeco and Cajun musicians live outside of New Orleans and indeed of Tremé. But there's one exception : the old traditional Cajun song La Danse de Mardi Gras by Cajun accordionist and bandleader Steve Riley with  and the anonymous participants to the Faquetaique “Courir de Mardi Gras” (including fiddler Kevin Wimmer).
And the blues might you ask… Nowhere in particular but almost everywhere, hiding behind most of the tracks.

Day and night, night and day, New Orleans
is living to the pulse of music
Except for Louis Prima, all the musicians and bands featured on the soundtrack were alive at the time the first two seasons of the series were shot, and all from or residing in New Orleans, except Steve Earle due to his perfectly fitting superb dramatic song This City.
Close, but half as long as the fabulous “Doctors, Professors, Kings & Queens” 4-CD box (see chapter I) with which it shares a number of artists and songs, but not in the same versions, the Tremé soundtrack finally asks “What is New Orleans ?” The answer comes from Kermit Ruffins and his Barbecue Swingers in their eponymous song on CD2.

Tremé, The Neighborhood
New Orleans circa 1860
New Orleans is a city that you feel but cannot explain, comment the residents. It's almost as if it weren't really part of the US, a piece of foreign land at the end of the big river. This is particularly true for the Tremé neighborhood.

Faubourg Tremé, as it was named in the French colonial period, is the second oldest historical district of New Orleans after the “Vieux Carré” (the French Quarter), which it borders to the North, just across Rampart Street. Most of all, historically it was the first community of free colored people in the future US.
St. Claude and Dumaine in 1895,
by painter Paul Poincy
(Louisiana State Museum)

Officially founded in 1812, its history starts earlier, in the 1780's when one Claude Tremé purchased the 1.8 km2 area of wet land of the Morand Plantation. Originally known as "Back of Town" (“Backatown”), the area was renamed "Faubourg Tremé" when the new owner launched an urbanization project.

Storyville circa 1910
By the end of the 19th Century, the red-light district part of Tremé called Storyville (after councilman Sidney Story enacted in 1897 a city ordinance designating a confined area for prostitution) was administratively detached from the “Faubourg”, before being torn down and transformed into the Iberville public housing project in the 1940's.
St. Louis Cemetery N° 1
Iberville includes the famous historic St. Louis Cemetery N° 1 where the grave of “Voodoo Queen” Marie Laveau is situated.

A hot spot of Tremé was the “Place des Nègres”, later baptized Congo Square, where slaves used to gather to play music, sing and dance on Sunday, the weekly rest day granted to them by the 1724 addition concerning “la Louisiane” of the French “Code Noir” (originally enacted in 1685).

African dance at Congo Square
in the late 18th Century...
This tradition flourished for over a century, until the US government grew more and more anxious about unsupervised gatherings of slaves in the years before the Civil War. But it had been the only place in America where African and Afro-Caribbean people were allowed to preserve their cultural traditions.

... and today
The musical forms born from these gatherings fortunately had time to take root and forge most of the New Orleans styles, especially jazz, and beyond, of a major part of American popular music. Actually, these roots must be credited to the whole Tremé area rather to the sole Congo Square.
Not far from Congo Square, today a part of Louis Armstrong park, is St. Augustine Church which was once the head of the oldest African-American Catholic parish in the country.

Residents of Tremé in the 1920's
Unfortunately, one of the after-effects of Hurricane Katrina hass been to disrupt durably the demographic identity of the neighborhood as the evolution of the census figures show quite clearly.
A street of Tremé after the floodwaters receded 
In 2000, the Tremé population was around 8,850 people. After Katrina, the 2010 census shows a dramatic decrease with about 4,150. Some 92% were still African-Americans for 5% of Whites, 1.5% of Hispanics, the remaining being Asian, or from mixed racial origins.
But in 2020, though the population had gained a few hundreds new residents with 4,590 people, the ethnic composition has dramatically changed : the proportion of African-Americans had dropped down to 56.3% while Whites had gone up to 35.6% and Hispanics to 5.1%, Asian to 0.4% and mixed races to 2.6%. In other words the rebuilding of Tremé has gentrified the neighborhood, particularly through the wild multiplication of AirBnBs, to the detriment of the historic African-American population.

Tremé, The Series
Shooting a Second line scene for the series
The music of “Tremé”, the series, is a full character of this dramatic story along with Hurricane Katrina whose invisible presence, three months after the flooding, is haunting the whole plot. This one is rather loose by the way : “Tremé” is not your usual thriller but a psychological and social analysis of how the people of a unique neighborhood of a unique city are coping with the challenge of reconstructing not only their neighborhood but also their own individual lives and their cultural traditions.
Kermit Ruffins in his native Tremé
Music is the cement of this reconstruction, not so much a political weapon, like it had been during the Civil Rights movement or the Vietnam war, but a social bond that links the characters, musicians or not, and ultimately makes New Orleans the city she is.

David Simon (right)
& Eric Overmyer
To illustrate this, producers David Simon and Eric Overmyer have chosen symbolic fictional characters : trombonist Antoine Batiste (Wendell Pierce) struggling to keep on making a living out of music, his ex-wife, bar owner LaDonna Batiste-Williams (Khandi Alexander), who fights to discover what happened to her brother missing since the hurricane, Mardi Gras Indian Chief Albert Lambreaux (Clarke Peters) and his son, jazz trumpeter Delmond Lambreaux (Rob Brown), musician and DJ Davis McAlary (Steve Zahn), restaurant chef Janette Desautel (Kim Dickens), layer Antoinette "Toni" Bernette (Melissa Leo) who helps LaDonna, and her depressive husband, university professor and blogger Creighton Bernette (John Goodman), street musicians Sonny (Michiel Huisman), a keyboard and guitar player from Amsterdam, Holland, and his partner violinist Annie Talarico (Lucia Micarelli).

Steve Zahn, Kermit Ruffins
& Wendell Pierce
The characters interact with each other and the plot, or rather the multiple parallel sub-plots, follow each character effort to rebuild a “normal” life through personal quests or projects. Told this way, it might seem ordinary, but the unique atmosphere of the city and of the Tremé neighborhood microcosm, enhanced by the musical soundtrack and the numerous "real" musicians mingling with the fictional characters, transform the story into a spellbinding drama.

For the technical details and casting of the series, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treme_(TV_series)
And for the plot development episode by episode go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Treme_episodes or https://www.hbo.com/treme
Then, for those who never saw it, just tell me you don't feel like watching (and hearing) it now ! ■

 * A generous and meticulous fan has put the complete soundtrack of the four seasons on Spotify : 216 songs (!!!), about 12 hours of music : https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3AK7IuBQj4c4LO5cvEvbog

Audio Playlists
► Treme: Music From The HBO Original Series :
► As well as this 143-title playlist, to consider with caution :
Related Documentaries
► Hurricane Katrina footage from the New Orleans Fire Department, August 2005 : https://youtu.be/W9PeU2KJcIE
► Drive into New Orleans three months after Hurricane Katrina, November 19, 2005 : https://youtu.be/Z1e2ggMYfxE
► A three-part document from WWLTV about the aftermath of Katrina :
→ #1 : “Tremé: Death of a neighborhood, survival of a culture” : https://youtu.be/DXKsGol8cAQ
→ #2 : “Tremé: How 'Urban Renewal' destroyed the cultural heart of New Orleans” : https://youtu.be/1AIG7HwM7y0
→ #3 : “Tremé: Katrina opened the floodgates to another wave of issues” : https://youtu.be/kHsFPOL1Nt4
► "Katrina, 10 Years After: A Second Life, A Second Chance", 2015 : https://youtu.be/yMZZ7LLKGXo
► Driving through Tremé, 2019 : https://youtu.be/LI-pB24CwwM
There is also the excellent historical documentary “Faubourg Treme: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans”, but unfortunately after intense research, I couldn't find any decent site offering free stream or download of it. Nevertheless, if by any chance, you find an occasion to watch it, do not hesitate, it gives a unique historical vision of Tremé.
Related Music Videos
John Boutté
► With Paul Sanchez, Todd Duke and Matt Perrine, Threadhead Patry, New Orleans, 2009 :
► New Orleans Jazz Museum, 2021 : https://youtu.be/YyfPc59acXc?t=91
► Vancouver Island Musicfest, 2022 : https://youtu.be/dnwDzGSzS6c
► With special guests Tanya Boutté & Arséne DeLay, Jazz & Heritage Center, New Orleans, 2022 : https://youtu.be/4Dyc9bzSIsY

Rebirth Brass Band
► Tipitina's, New Orleans, 2020 : https://youtu.be/BnVS976xu1o
► New Orleans Jazz Fest, 2022 :
The New Orleans Jazz Vipers
► The Abita Springs Opry, LA, 2008 : https://youtu.be/g7DR1tSXLiU?t=12
► New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Center, 2021 : https://youtu.be/6RGZ74g6CrY
► New Orleans Jazz Museum, 2023 : https://youtu.be/MbcWDvvzAIE?t=425

Kermit Ruffins & The Barbecue Swingers
► Louisiana Music Factory, New Orleans, 2012 : https://youtu.be/MFdEh9uGKrw
► With guests, The Little Gem Saloon, New Orleans, 2014 : https://youtu.be/RZwIRlVNmzE
► Blue Nile club, New Orleans, 2016 : https://youtu.be/RNz1y7x7N5o
► Venkman's, Atlanta, GA, 2018 : https://youtu.be/nLV0USBkmhk
► Jean Lafitte National Park, New Orleans, 2020 : https://youtu.be/68M2mDFh8mE?t=119

Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews
Trombone Shorty & James Andrews
► For videos of Trombone Shorty, see here.
► James Andrews and the Crescent City Allstars, Rock'n'Bowl, New Orleans, 2014 : https://youtu.be/Gf27D3p2aoE
► James Andrews and Friends, 2014 :
► Treme Creole Gumbo Festival, New Orleans, 2023 : https://youtu.be/yGqlN1Fl4LI

Soul Rebels Brass Band
► Kennedy Center, Washington DC, 2013 : https://youtu.be/mDUZl001w4w
► Tipitina's, New Orleans, 2019 : https://youtu.be/1fnRtCSeOT8?t=249
► The Funky Uncle,  New Orleans, 2021 : https://youtu.be/zNN1pjJr5tQ?t=80

John Mooney
► John Mooney talks about and plays Son House, Rochester, NY, 2015 : https://youtu.be/StvwUNKn_4E
► Crescent City Blues & BBQ Festival, New Orleans, 2017 : https://youtu.be/0N0-7jS0YEI
► Louisiana Music Factory, New Orleans, 2017 : https://youtu.be/79uJ0EMvAAU

Free Agents Brass Band
► Rejoicing Second lining around Jackson Square, French Quarter Festival, New Orleans, 2012, with actor Wendell Pierce somewhere among the second liners : https://youtu.be/P-R5zdsdSOM
► CubaDupa Festival, Wellington, New Zealand, 2018 : https://youtu.be/9b0Qej_SR4c

Steve Zahn and Friends
► “Shame, shame, shame” : https://youtu.be/WcKvCjO4JlM

Dr. John
► Newport Jazz Festival, RI, 2006 : https://youtu.be/hHSAwLfMZ9Y
► New Orleans, 2013 : https://youtu.be/pa9_qMFgFPQ
► Landmark Music Festival, Washington DC, 2015 : https://youtu.be/d5xCUjCjJco
► Greek Theatre, Los Angeles, 2017 : https://youtu.be/JJ2D1Yyzauw

Louis Prima
► Compilation of Prima's performances on the Ed Sullivan show between 1949 and 1962 : https://youtu.be/J_XGdG4_JvQ
► An Evening with Louis Prima (featuring Gia Maione, Sam Butera and the Witnesses), 1965 : https://youtu.be/GbhHxqP2rOY

Tom McDermott
► Tulane University, New Orleans, 2012 : https://youtu.be/ZvMNjJFBS2A?t=53
► With Aurora Nealand, Buffa's, New Orleans, 2014 :
► Louisiana Music Factory, New Orleans, 2019 : https://youtu.be/BV-hd1Lq2uo
► New Orleans, 2020 : https://youtu.be/D3BOPtF81bI?t=315

Micarelli, Huisman & McDermott
Lucia Micarelli
► "Spirits of Mozart" with Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull), 2012 : https://youtu.be/YuaSyIJml7M
► Santa Barbara, CA, 2019 :
→ Sibelius Violin Concerto / Led Zeppelin's “Kashmir” : https://youtu.be/VJaNoqwyY3A
→ “Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most” : https://youtu.be/7efmFnHrDTw
Huisman & Micarelli secondlining in Tremé
→ “This City” (Steve Earle) : https://youtu.be/OxoqwjiqLzU
► With Uruguayan guitarist Leo Amuedo, Jimmy’s Jazz & Blues Club, Portsmouth, NH, 2023 : https://youtu.be/HGFfDVyFxnU

Michiel Huisman
► Treme Creole Gumbo Festival, New Orleans, 2011 : https://youtu.be/gWA2pP_Y_UM

Mardi Gras Indians
► Mardi Gras Indians singing “Indian Red” during the annual St. Joseph Night Celebration, New Orleans, 2013 : https://youtu.be/TjFUbIbv-hQ

Donald Harrison
► Jazz and Heritage Center, New Orleans, 2018 : https://youtu.be/4LGg-ig0hMo
► Donald Harrison Quartet, New Orleans Jazz Fest, 2018 : https://youtu.be/WWzkEt3pfwk
► Drom, NYC, 2020 : https://youtu.be/CV1Owc0W6KI
► Birdland Jazz Club, NYC, 2023 : https://youtu.be/n08ZLEUE78k

Irma Thomas & Allen Toussaint
► Allen Toussaint, Montreal Jazz Festival, 2008 : https://youtu.be/g8YOhz8ZywY
► Allen Toussaint, Austin City Limits, 2010 : https://youtu.be/fEe9dy8miqE?t=86
► Allen Toussaint, Generation Hall, New Orleans, 2014 : https://youtu.be/S5TaIxFaEzc
► Allen Toussaint, 2015 : https://youtu.be/NADhXyrEnek
► Allen Toussaint & Irma Thomas, New Orleans, 2015 : https://youtu.be/lFKKfLjZmZE
► Irma Thomas, New Orleans Jazz Fest, 2015 : https://youtu.be/MQsHxPzmXlU
► Irma Thomas, French Quarter Festival, New Orleans, 2022 : https://youtu.be/EI5mRYhr_4A

Steve Earle
► “After Mardi Gras”, Steve Earle and the Duke, Boston, MA, 2013 : https://youtu.be/0KibJqlsk_4
►  Steve Earle and the Dukes, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, 2018 : https://youtu.be/y4sy3Aq3qkc
► Steve Earle and the Dukes, Toronto, 2018 : https://youtu.be/IHkl5qsjZUc
► Solo, Arkansas, 2022 : https://youtu.be/x_xfYTCFAak
► Live & Unplugged, Lafayette's Music Room, Memphis, TN, 2023 : https://youtu.be/4AK1tojt-sQ

The Tremé Brass Band
► Live from WWOZ, 2020 : https://youtu.be/DY12Q8br8aw
► Reduced to five players, on Frenchmen Street, New Orleans, 2021 : https://youtu.be/tGNTvD6BOYY
► New Orleans Jazz Museum Balcony, 2022 : https://youtu.be/YJYjTcibmwA?t=120

Lil' Queenie & The Percolators
► Unknown date or location : https://youtu.be/QlWIe370Atk
► Fitzgerald's, San Antonio, TX, 1981 : https://youtu.be/LPhLYRCPnNs
► Leigh "Lil' Queenie" Harris, “Never Can Tell”, The Rivershack, 2013 : https://youtu.be/hS7cNO22u_s

Hot 8 Brass Band
► The Saint, Asbury Park, NJ, 2013 : https://youtu.be/XtMw_qYmbXo
► French Quarter Festival, New Orleans, 2016 : https://youtu.be/fWHE4urDkKg
► New Orleans Jazz Museum, 2021 : https://youtu.be/H89gfZdbxZk
► The Funky Uncle, New Orleans, 2021 : https://youtu.be/GtMtAtNr5iE?t=103

Galactic singer Anjelika Joseph
Galactic, Juvenile & The Dirty Dozen Brass Band
► “From the Corner to the Block”, Tipitina's : https://youtu.be/KYy4AF0SUrQ?t=36
► Galactic, Louisiana Music Factory, New Orleans, 2019 : https://youtu.be/B-5geBL3_7Y
► Galactic, Mardi Gras from Tipitina's, New Orleans, 2020 : https://youtu.be/5BDZNO1mvBA?t=75
► Galactic, New Year's Eve at Tipitina's, New Orleans, 2020 : https://youtu.be/FE8TOJ9_dUg?t=107
The Dirty Dozen Brass Band
► Juvenile, The Oasis, Baton Rouge, LA, 2021 : https://youtu.be/BQv9ZdSWSd8
► Juvenile, Brooklyn, NY, 2023 : https://youtu.be/b4UPD_5N0mU
► Juvenile, Tampa, FL, 2023 : https://youtu.be/EDKcI-WPGk8
► The DDBB, Rosslyn Jazz Festival, VA, 2015 : https://youtu.be/eRfVJOJqJM4
► The DDBB, Wayne, PA, 2015 : https://youtu.be/KHm_MkKgVRA?t=19
► The DDBB, The Funky Uncle, New Orleans, 2021 : https://youtu.be/JogxOQbD9eM?t=174

The Subdudes
► Austin City Limits, 1990's : https://youtu.be/GcDN9f2eEbY?t=9
► Boulder, CO, 2014 : https://youtu.be/p1qckEX7Axw
► Threadhead Patry, New Orleans, 2017 :
► Nottingham Park, Avon, CO, 2018 : https://youtu.be/x9-p42uyLTM
► Towne Crier Cafe, Beacon, NY 2019 : https://youtu.be/tGkwREcXDW4

David Torkanowsky
► Piano Night, WWOZ, 2015 : https://youtu.be/fHYdTDyF0Jc
► Dr. John Tribute, WWOZ, 2019 : https://youtu.be/jH_kz_AxzBU
► With James Singleton and Johnny Vidacovich, Snug Harbor, New Orleans. 2019 : https://youtu.be/Vw76W5LxjF8
► The Tork Trio (D. Torkanowsky, George Porter Jr. & Stanton Moore), Loyola University, New Orleans, 2016 : https://youtu.be/Alg-fsF9TAU?t=248

Evan Christopher
► With The Rosenberg Trio (Dutch gypsy jazz group), 2018 : https://youtu.be/gCLHZmspPVg
► With Vinny Raniolo, New Orleans University, 2018 : https://youtu.be/pIJAU3r9qG8?t=1084
► “The Faubourg Variations”, feat. David Torkanowsky, New Orleans Jazz Museum, 2018 : https://youtu.be/_Gt9fA6S4HY

Henry Butler
► “Where You Been”, Mendocino, CA, 2009 : https://youtu.be/WGz4goTAmJ0
► The Brickhouse Brewery, Long Island, NY, 2011 : https://youtu.be/SJs2qWYMS7g?t=71
►  Loyola University, New Orleans, 2011 : https://youtu.be/KS7OkwB3kZI?t=384
► With Steven Bernstein & The Hot 9, North Sea Jazz Festival, Netherland, 2014 :
► "Bourbon Street Blues", TSF Jazz, 2017 : https://youtu.be/Nqce-XHH5ig

DJ Davis & The Brassy Knoll
This fictional band in the series was modeled on the “Real Davis” (ex-WWOZ DJ Davis Rogan) and his band All That formed in the mid-1990's in particular with former members of different brass bands (Rebirth, DDBB, Mahogany, Klezmer All-Stars...)
► Davis Rogan & All That, 2010 : https://youtu.be/5DHKX9ZblzE
► Davis Rogan, The Hi-Ho Lounge, New Orleans, 2011 : https://youtu.be/6Vc29KCZunU
► Davis Rogan, “The New Ninth Ward”, 2014 : https://youtu.be/qoXO9Hkgcf8
► Davis Rogan & Friends, Buffa's, New Orleans, 2018 : https://youtu.be/AfZX0qSxoVo

The Iguanas at their debut
The Iguanas
► Louisiana Music Factory, New Orleans, 2017 : https://youtu.be/AiykgZpj3a8
► 1st Annual Tamale Festival, New Orleans, 2018 : https://youtu.be/lqLWnyZ7K2Q
► New Orleans Jazz Museum, 2023 : https://youtu.be/LaZDTmrHsgQ?t=402
► Cosmico Fest, Todos Santos, Baja California, Mexico, 2023 : https://youtu.be/DnkUKQsk2y8

The Radiators
► Louisiana World Exposition, New Orleans, 1984 : https://youtu.be/tJMz1rYszwI
► Red Rocks, CO, 1990 : https://youtu.be/0Pf11agbOEU
► The Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, 2011 : https://youtu.be/eScB-RObgDU
► New Orleans Jazz Fest, 2014 :
► New Orleans Jazz Fest, 2022 :
Al Johnson (& The Soul Apostles)
► “Carnival Time”, Louisiana Music Hall Of Fame, New Orleans, 2010 : https://youtu.be/JqLrLKwKWQI
► Al Johnson and The Chalmette High School Jazz Band, 2010 : https://youtu.be/xazVuVNvrIg
► 75th Birthday at Kermit's Tremé Mother-In-Law Lounge, New Orleans, 2014 : https://youtu.be/2QTqagUSPJM

Steve Riley (& the Mamou Playboys)
► Cajun Music Festival, 1994 : https://youtu.be/6RLFaP5z-3c
► Simi Valley Cajun & Blues Music Festival, CA, 2013 : https://youtu.be/CVQ6dS-In2U
► Downtown Alive, Lafayette, 2017 : https://youtu.be/J80AHbkNUDY
► Strawberry Park, Preston, CT, 2022 : https://youtu.be/AvqMkYB_2GM

The Faquetaique Mardi Gras
The “Courir de Mardi Gras” ("Fat Tuesday Run") is a traditional Cajun version of the urban Mardi Gras celebration held in New Orleans. They take place every year in many rural communities of the South-West Louisiana region known as Acadiana. The celebration always include singing "La Danse de Mardi Gras", an old traditional French song, and is often centered around a live chicken chase.
One of these “Courir” is taking place in an open field about 5 km south of Eunice, the Prairie Faquetaique, a name derived from a Choctaw word meaning "turkey hen".
► “Le Danse de Mardi Gras” by Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys, Lake Charles, LA,  2016 : https://youtu.be/GVOKGBp4PSM
► The 2010 Faquetaique Courir de Mardi Gras :
Aurora Nealand (& The Royal Roses)
► The Abita Springs Opry, LA, 2013 : https://youtu.be/U1ZV7xUCgOo
► Montreal Jazz Festival, 2018 : https://youtu.be/iWBO4vKVVR4
► The New Orleans Jazz Museum, 2021 : https://youtu.be/4kBKV6ZRvXc?t=421
► The Aurora Nealand Quartet, New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park, 2023 : https://youtu.be/PpP2EQU0r3A

Jon Cleary
► Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise #26, 2016 : https://youtu.be/dRmnZMlxIoo?t=36
► Solo on piano, Dakota Club, Minneapolis, MN, 2022 : https://youtu.be/C3wPVo0fQlc
► Jon Cleary & The Absolute Monster Gentlemen, Crescent City Blues & BBQ Festival, 2022 : https://youtu.be/tixMGFZxeNo
► Jon Cleary & the Absolute Monster Gentlemen Funky N.O. R&B Revue, with John Boutté, Al "Carnival Time" Johnson and James Rivers, The Broadside, New Orleans, 2023 :

The Pulse of Tremé
Street steppping in Tremé (scene from the series)
► The North Side Skull and Bones Gang wakes up the Tremé neighborhood on Mardi Gras morning 2017 : https://youtu.be/4rzO6l7-kTw
► Tremé Sidewalk Steppers Second line :
► Mardi Gras Indian Battle, Congo Square Rhythms Festival, 2022 : https://youtu.be/TWzo5NjWgpQ











 





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