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Even in New Orleans, it’s a constant struggle to create art. And in post-Katrina New Orleans, a lot of things compounded that strife. WBGO’s Josh Jackson recaps the episode’s soundtrack to a painful plot twist. Episode 8 of the HBO program takes place on the first Fat Tuesday after Katrina and the two days preceding it. But there’s both sadness and happiness buried beneath the carnival masks. Josh Jackson breaks down the soundtrack. The fifth installment of Treme is filled with gunshots at a second line, politically-charged remakes of New Orleans R&B and rabbit kidneys wrapped in bacon lardons. Josh Jackson breaks down the musical score and the Kid Ory references Only four episodes into Treme , one of the ideas that keeps recurring is how ultimately doomed everybody is — and how everybody manages to crack an occasional smile in spite of it all. Josh Jackson breaks down the black humor and the music. ? E-Mail This ???? ? Add to Del.icio.us In New Orleans, where musicians are very much everyday people, Treme is more than just background music. Speaking of that soundtrack, Patrick Jarenwattananon and WBGO’s Josh Jackson, having just soaked up three days of Jazz Fest, e-mailed about episode three It’s been a rainy whirlwind down in New Orleans — Josh Jackson and Patrick Jarenwattananon divided, then conquered the festival, sending back photos, reports and tape. ? E-Mail This ???? ? Add to Del.icio.us At the end of a long day of music, Josh Jackson and I met at the hub of Frenchmen Street in New Orleans to talk about what we saw. As you hear from the brass band on the corner, the music continued around the clock: we taped at 2:30 a.m In the New Orleans of Treme , joy is irrepressible. Get Breaking News Alerts * Share * Comments 188 Thirteen years ago, 68-year-old jazz guitarist Calvin Keys underwent a life-saving quadruple bypass surgery. Keys, a notable Bay Area musician who recorded and toured with Ray Charles in the ’70s, says he would not have been able to afford that surgery if he hadn’t been covered under his wife’s health insurance…
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