Is Trombone Shorty from New Orleans? Yes, Trombone Shorty grew up in Tremé, one of New Orleans' oldest neighborhoods. He appeared in several episodes of the HBO series "Treme." Trombone Shorty was one ...

Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue will close out the Rochester International Jazz Festival with a free concert on Parcel 5. When and where is the concert? The concert is set to begin at 9 p.m. on ...

Trombone (and sometimes ‘Trumpet’) Shorty Andrews & Orleans Avenue came and brought lots of brass (The Dirty Dozen Brass Band and Austin Knights Brass Band) to ACL Live at the Moody Theater last night ...

Perhaps you didn’t know you needed a big bad brass superstar in your life. Perhaps you’ve never been sitting around listening to music and thought to yourself, ‘You know what this song needs? More ...

Sometime around 1990, photographer Michael P. Smith, one of the most prolific documentarians of New Orleans culture, snapped a photo at a second-line of Lois Nelson Andrews. The daughter of R&B singer ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Brace yourselves for a high-energy horn show when Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue take the stage at the 34th annual Syracuse Jazz Fest on Sunday, July 3. Michael McDonald will ...

SM PIER — Since the release of their Grammy¬Æ-nominated 2010 debut album, "Backatown," Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue have grown creatively while winning hordes of new fans performing nonstop on ...

Troy Andrews, aka Trombone Shorty, was a child prodigy whose musical talents became apparent around the age most of us face our first days of kindergarten. Around the age of six he was already playing ...

Trombone Shorty has not yet devised a way to take his concert audiences to New Orleans, at least not literally. So, he’s doing the next best thing by bringing New Orleans to audiences nationwide. His ...

Troy Andrews can fit a century of New Orleans music history in his head. Absolutely impressive, but more impressive: Andrews can hear these past Crescent City styles in one ear and its future in the ...

It's hard to imagine an artist more steeped in the culture of New Orleans than Troy Andrews, better known as Trombone Shorty. Andrews grew up in the Tremé, a neighborhood that's become practically ...

Trombone Shorty was one of seven children and grew up in a musical household. His brother, trumpet player and bandleader James Andrews, gave him a trombone when he was 4 years old. Bo Diddley invited ...