In 30 years of writing about television, I have never heard music used as organically, wisely and powerfully as it is in the new HBOdrama, "Treme," from Baltimore writer David Simon and playwright Eric Overmyer.
The 80-minute pilot episode opens on a street parade and closes on a funeral procession. The former, with its screaming brass, syncopated bass drum and snake-hipped dancers, lifted me out of my seat and instantly transported me into the bombed-out landscape of post-Katrina New Orleans, where the series is set.
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