If you can’t be inside Tipitina’s tonight for Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue’s CD release party, Liveset will webcast the entire concert for free live on its website. The New Orleans-based company, which streams concerts in HD, will also make the show available for purchase in the coming weeks. Shorty’s new album, For True, goes [...]
Tag Archives: Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews
Trombone Shorty, For True (Verve Records)
September 1, 2011 – 12:59 am
Five years ago, a lot of people were wondering what the brightest young star of New Orleans music, Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews, was going to do next. Music industry insiders in Los Angeles and New York urged him to go all in, but Shorty stood pat, touring constantly and rehearsing his band Orleans Avenue incessantly. [...]
School Days: Jazz Alumni of NOCCA
May 1, 2011 – 12:17 am
For many, jazz is merely a style of music. For New Orleans, it is as much a part of its tradition as it is an institution. Founded in 1973, the New Orleans Creative Center for the Arts (NOCCA), has championed its legacy in the contemporary era. In its brief history, NOCCA alumni such as Harry [...]
Trombone Shorty’s Red Hot
December 1, 2010 – 12:03 am
Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews will curate an all-star New Orleans revue scheduled for December 3 and 4 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York City. The show’s producers asked Shorty to assemble a representative contingent of New Orleans musicians for the AIDS-benefit concert series, and he came up with a list of performers [...]
Midnite Disturbers: Jazz Fest Focus
May 1, 2010 – 12:26 am
The idea for the Midnite Disturbers came at drummer Stanton Moore’s kitchen table. He and fellow drummer Kevin O’Day had been tossing around the idea of forming an all-star brass band, and they had called Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews to see what he thought. When he agreed, they started calling friends and ended up with [...]
Growing Up Andrews
May 1, 2010 – 12:18 am
Check out a slideshow of the full photoshoot accompanying this story here. Jessie Hill’s “Ooh Poo Pah Doo” is one of the great New Orleans singles, and its Mardi Gras Indian chant, one of the great song-starters. James Andrews recapitulates its call-and-response miracle every time he hits the stage, and crowds all over the world [...]
