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HBO’s Treme Revives Jazz On National TV – chicagotribune.com

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If you haven’t been watching Treme yet, here is your introduction. so far it’s not quite matured into “the wire” i’m still very hooked into following david simon’s very unique altmanesque storytelling.

“Not everything in “Treme” serves its noble cause. Portraying one of the show’s leading characters, the fictional jazz trombonist Antoine Batiste (played by Wendell Pierce), as a chronic philanderer who’s always swindling someone taps the sorriest stereotypes about jazz life. “

“Then, again, Simon and friends aren’t trying to produce a treatise on jazz but, rather, a dramatic series about the near-death of a city. And not just any city, but one that has exported more musical culture to the rest of the country — and the world — than anyplace else on this continent.

“Treme” is sending a message about the incalculable musical value of New Orleans, why this city must be saved and what will be lost if its citizens can’t regain their footing.”

link: HBO’s Treme revives jazz on national TV – chicagotribune.com

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