History can lift you up or weigh you down. It can be a mountain to stand on or a sack of stones upon your back. This is especially true in a town where musical history is as rich and omnipresent as it ...

Trombone Shorty, Janelle Monae, Earth Wind & Fire, Gary Clark Jr. and Dr. John combined for an inspired performance at the New Orleans Arena on Sunday night (Feb. 16), presenting a throwback yin to… ...

Grammy-nominated band leader Trombone Shorty once skipped school with his bandmates to get to a recording session. That's not a surprise, considering he was a band leader at age 6 and started touring ...

MONTREUX, Switzerland (Reuters) – Usher and The Roots, and Trombone Shorty gave high-energy shows at the Montreux Jazz Festival on Wednesday night, bringing American funk, hip-hop and R&B to the famed ...

Better than: Anything that doesn't include Stanton Moore showing how good he is at the drums. If all good things must end, Saturday night's funk marathon was the best possible way to cap off over a ...

Whoa. Trombone Shorty is one amazing musician. His show at the Jewish Mother’s new Hilltop location on Tuesday, June 7, was tour de force propelled by fun, funk and massive, unpretentious chops.

Since he was a small child, Trombone Shorty has been defying expectations. The New Orleans native, who was born Troy Michael Andrews in 1986, learned the trombone at age 4, became a bandleader at age ...

NEW ORLEANS — Troy Andrews has been playing at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival for 20 years — and he's only 24. On Sunday, Andrews, who's better known as "Trombone Shorty," and his group ...

Bonerama’s 2001 debut album, “Live at the Old Point,” included the trombone-powered funk-rock band’s take on the Led Zeppelin chestnut “Moby Dick.” For Zeppelin, “Moby Dick” served as a showcase for ...

Trombone Shorty's new album "Lifted" comes on the heels of the artist's first Grammy win for his work as a songwriter and a featured artist on the album of the year, Jon Batiste's "We Are." Batiste ...

Gary Clark Jr., Earth Wind & Fire and Dr. John also took part in the performance. By Jason Lipshutz, Billboard "We love music, we love funk, we love soul, we love to jam," Monae told Billboard prior ...