When we heard live music during the first season of HBO’s Treme, we heard the same thing the cast and crew heard when they shot the scene—a live performance. The numbers weren’t cut in the studio then lip synched for the camera, and those performances dominate the Treme soundtrack. The versions represent the artists as [...]
Tag Archives: New Orleans Jazz Vipers
Various Artists, Treme: Music from the HBO Original Series, Season One (Geffen Records)
April 1, 2011 – 12:47 am
Playing Under the Radar
December 1, 2006 – 12:01 am
In September 2005, the New Orleans Jazz Vipers were one of the first jazz bands back on the streets of New Orleans. It was a month after the hurricane and almost no music venues were open yet, so the band played outdoors, near the corner of Decatur and Gov. Nicholls streets, outside Angeli on Decatur. [...]
