It is June 2021 as I write. I was living in NYC when Katrina slammed the Coast and destroyed so much. But it also brought an unemployed merchant seaman up from New Orleans, to my classroom. Three doors down from where I lived. It was October 2005, a month or so after the hurricane. That merchant seaman would become a good friend. And we have been married since 2008. We are now re-lo'ed here to Jackson Square in the French Quarter . In my NY days, I used to read Lafcadio Hearn. I'd wonder how come he loved New Orleans with such articulate ferocity. Now - at last, I KNOW why...
Amazing post. Nola has infected me with a longing to always come back to visit. New Orlean a cornerstone of America. God bless New Orleans and her children young and old.
Such a memorable ending to a season, as usual with Simon. Some people think montages are a lazy form of storytelling. How could one watch this and think that?
if anyone's looking for this version it's the second take from Louis Armstrong's 1931 recordings. The first take, the one you find everywhere, is about 30 seconds longer and he does Bing Crosby-esque riffs. The Treme one is about 3m18s.
TheDrFunkenstein Found a french album on itunes that included this version but it was an album-only purchase. by the time i had enough money to get the whole album iTunes had pulled the album
Pops doing Crosby-esque riffs?! Wait a minute, before 20th century fiction starts getting repeated till it's fact- Mr. Armstrong was & remains this country's only starting/ending point of reference in terms of 'pop' singing. Bing was always doing -imo- a very poor man's mimic of Pops phrasing. But Pops turned up Crosby who turned up the Chairman of the board's early years. The other side of Armstrong turned up Lady Day's phrasing and she turned up the world. But it all comes from Pops genius who phrased & scatted direct extensions of what he had just played on that golden horn of his...........like what Mr. Good King Bad ( that's George Benson) has been doing with his voice & guitar for about the last 50 years or so. But American popular singing? That Mr. Armstrong- a complete original in every way.
My apologies! Maybe I live too far north lol Heading back in March. Hoping to find this recording there. Maybe at LMF. Sadly it’s not going there to stay. :-/
Sorry for the dead air...but The Space Between The Notes Is Where All The Funk Is At. If you need refuge and you are from NOLA, Wendell, Massachusetts is pretty laissez-faire. You just gotta survive the winters.
politics and the environmental rape going on is a part of this great show. the music is amazing, i didnt care much for most persons on this show but in season 2 it really grew on me and the music is what made me keep coming back. this final track of louis is just perfect
I was disappointed this song wasn't included on the Season 2 soundtrack. Actually, the Season 2 soundtrack was very poorly constructed compared to the Season 1 soundtrack, which was nearly perfect.
Are you thinking of the Nawlins’ people this is about? Where are the references to family lost and lifting themselves up from depression? People will come back and visit because it’s New Orleans and there’s no other place like it even after a big hurricane like Katrina but what about the lives lost not just life still going???
One of the most heart felt televsion series of the 20th Century.
The Corner, The Wire, and Treme are so absolutely amazing.
It is June 2021 as I write. I was living in NYC when Katrina slammed the Coast and destroyed so much. But it also brought an unemployed merchant seaman up from New Orleans, to my classroom. Three doors down from where I lived. It was October 2005, a month or so after the hurricane. That merchant seaman would become a good friend. And we have been married since 2008. We are now re-lo'ed here to Jackson Square in the French Quarter . In my NY days, I used to read Lafcadio Hearn. I'd wonder how come he loved New Orleans with such articulate ferocity. Now - at last, I KNOW why...
Amazing post. Nola has infected me with a longing to always come back to visit. New Orlean a cornerstone of America. God bless New Orleans and her children young and old.
Such a memorable ending to a season, as usual with Simon. Some people think montages are a lazy form of storytelling. How could one watch this and think that?
This scene alone made Season 2 worth watching.
what a great show;the music;the storylines;bravo to david simon
Wonderful series on HBO
fantastic scène really gets me
Este montaje final es una maravilla, la especialidad de David Simon. Gracias por compartirlo!
The cops chuckling over the dead body is too good.
Got me too ! America the good and the bad and "Gate" make all good again!
Thanks , Smokin Joe.
love you treme....thanks
if anyone's looking for this version it's the second take from Louis Armstrong's 1931 recordings. The first take, the one you find everywhere, is about 30 seconds longer and he does Bing Crosby-esque riffs. The Treme one is about 3m18s.
Ryan Coulter doing gods work. This version is so much better
TheDrFunkenstein Found a french album on itunes that included this version but it was an album-only purchase. by the time i had enough money to get the whole album iTunes had pulled the album
Pops doing Crosby-esque riffs?! Wait a minute, before 20th century fiction starts getting repeated till it's fact- Mr. Armstrong was & remains this country's only starting/ending point of reference in terms of 'pop' singing. Bing was always doing -imo- a very poor man's mimic of Pops phrasing. But Pops turned up Crosby who turned up the Chairman of the board's early years. The other side of Armstrong turned up Lady Day's phrasing and she turned up the world. But it all comes from Pops genius who phrased & scatted direct extensions of what he had just played on that golden horn of his...........like what Mr. Good King Bad ( that's George Benson) has been doing with his voice & guitar for about the last 50 years or so. But American popular singing? That Mr. Armstrong- a complete original in every way.
My apologies! Maybe I live too far north lol
Heading back in March. Hoping to find this recording there. Maybe at LMF.
Sadly it’s not going there to stay. :-/
You are a scholar and a gentleman, just like Davis! Thank you!
This is a great farking series!
Breaks my heart.
Best show
Sorry for the dead air...but The Space Between The Notes Is Where All The Funk Is At.
If you need refuge and you are from NOLA, Wendell, Massachusetts is pretty laissez-faire. You just gotta survive the winters.
politics and the environmental rape going on is a part of this great show.
the music is amazing, i didnt care much for most persons on this show but in season 2 it really grew on me and the music is what made me keep coming back. this final track of louis is just perfect
That was the stove from her old restaurant wasn't it?
I tried so hard to 'get' this series. Never did it for me.
@alexjr28 it wouldn't be new orleans without crooked politics. the show is straight up raw new orleans..no censor
Um, I'm pretty sure Lucia Micarelli has a pretty good idea of what written music looks like.
I was disappointed this song wasn't included on the Season 2 soundtrack. Actually, the Season 2 soundtrack was very poorly constructed compared to the Season 1 soundtrack, which was nearly perfect.
Are you thinking of the Nawlins’ people this is about? Where are the references to family lost and lifting themselves up from depression? People will come back and visit because it’s New Orleans and there’s no other place like it even after a big hurricane like Katrina but what about the lives lost not just life still going???