Nick Spitzer: [applause] Yeah, Treme Brass Band. How about that? John Gilbert on saxophone and singing too. Benny, maybe you could just say a little bit about how you first got involved making the ...

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During the first episode of HBO’s Treme, members of the Rebirth Brass Band and the show’s trombone-playing character Antoine Batiste end a jazz parade in front of a neighborhood bar owned by Batiste’s ...

The Treme Brass Band will perform at Chickie Wah Wah (2828 Canal St.) on Friday, Sept. 12, at 8 p.m., in a special event celebrating the legacy of Donna’s Bar & Grill, the former North Rampart Street ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Lionel Batiste, the vocalist, bass drummer and assistant leader of the Treme Brass Band, has died. He was 81. Fans of the HBO series "Treme" (truh-MAY) may not have known Batiste by ...

After Hurricane Katrina, members of New Orleans's Treme Brass Band were scattered around the country. While some of the group moved away, 63-year-old snare drummer Benny Jones Sr. and 75-year-old bass ...

The musician, who had been a fixture on the New Orleans jazz scene since the 1940s, died Sunday morning after a brief battle with cancer. By Jane Kellogg “Uncle” Lionel Batiste, the longtime bass ...

Corey Henry’s ‘Treme Funktet is only about two months young but, as with everything the young trombonist does music-wise, its taking off like a fast growing fire. Sunday nights at the Candlelight ...

Giving a hip new twist to a time-honored tradition, New Orleans chefs will vie to simmer the best vegan gumbo in a contest at this weekend’s Tremé Creole Gumbo Festival in Armstrong Park. For the old ...