Tom Piazza Archives | NICKSAV Film & Music SHOW https://podcast.nsavides.com/tag/tom-piazza/ For filmmakers, musicians, & creative people who do amazing things and want to make the world better in some way. Tue, 27 Aug 2019 01:27:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 59503089 Treme & Why New Orleans Matters: Writer Tom Piazza https://podcast.nsavides.com/treme-why-new-orleans-matters-writer-tom-piazza/ Wed, 24 Jul 2019 02:33:51 +0000 http://podcast.nsavides.com/?p=2409 Author Tom Piazza has written 12 books, many of which feature New Orleans, music, or both. His post-Katrina manifesto Why New Orleans Matters helped to inspire the HBO show Treme, and the show’s co-creator David Simon brought him on as a staff writer largely because of it. Tom received a Grammy Award for his album notes […]

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]]> Author Tom Piazza has written 12 books, many of which feature New Orleans, music, or both. His post-Katrina manifesto Why New Orleans Matters helped to inspire the HBO show Treme, and the show’s co-creator David Simon brought him on as a staff writer largely because of it. Tom received a Grammy Award for his album notes to Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: A Musical Journey and has also written for numerous publications including The New York Times, The Atlantic, and The Oxford American.

Treme writer Tom Piazza Grammy winner podcast interview nicksav.show I met with Tom at the historic Columns Hotel in New Orleans to talk about his work and the city that has shaped so much of it. Some of the things we discuss in the episode include

  • Highlights from the 50th anniversary of Jazz Fest
  • How to write about a place like a local
  • What not to do when writing music criticism
  • Research that went into his album notes for Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues
  • How the writing room on Treme worked together to flesh out challenging story points

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This is the commentary track, where I share my take on Treme, how it relates to The Wire, and some reflections on my conversation with Tom:

Show notes for the commentary track are here.

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This is the video I put together to commemorate The Rayo Brothers’ performance at Jazz Fest 2018. For part of their set they were joined by Grammy-winning musician Louis Michot from the Lost Bayou Ramblers.

This wedding video I shot includes some classic New Orleans elements including Brennan’s, where Bananas Foster was invented; the Pontchartrain Hotel, where Tennessee Williams worked on his play Streetcar Named Desire; streetcars; and jazz.
More of my videos are here.
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Additional music for the show provided by Rob Costlow.

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Books Mentioned

  • An American Dream by Norman Mailer
  • City of Refuge by Tom Piazza
  • Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
  • La Vita Nuova by Dante
  • The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
  • Understanding Jazz: Ways to Listen by Tom Piazza
  • Why New Orleans Matters by Tom Piazza

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Musicians Mentioned

  • Barbecue Bob
  • Bill Monroe
  • Bob Dylan
  • Bonnie Raitt
  • The Carter family
  • Diana Krall
  • Elvis Costello
  • Hank Williams
  • Jimmie Rodgers
  • John Prine
  • Muddy Waters
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Shows Mentioned

  • Deadwood
  • Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: A Musical Journey
  • Treme 
  • The Wire 

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