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Trombone Shorty is 39 years old but he's already taken center stage in New Orleans for 35 years. The Grammy Award winning musician from The Big Easy will perform "America the Beautiful" with ...

All About Jazz is celebrating Trombone Shorty's birthday today! Since the release of their Grammy-nominated 2010 debut album, Backatown, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue have grown creatively while ...

Yes, it's true that Mardi Gras doesn't roll around on the calendar until Tuesday, March 4, but unbeknownst to most Northerners, Mardi Gras is not a single-day celebration in New Orleans. It's actually ...

You heard 'em on Conan and again on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson — now here's the video for the For True single "Do To Me," featuring Troy Andrews and company gearing up and playing at a ...

"Shorty sent me to show ya'll how to play this here music," he says weakly, though everyone knows it's not true. The amazing thing about all this chatter is left unspoken: At the time depicted in this ...

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, ...

Enter For True, the follow-up to 2010's Backatown (Verve), Troy Andrews' universally acclaimed breakthrough LP - a release that not only stood out among local output as a stellar work, but one that ...

Two bands the masses may not have heard of lit up the F.M. Kirby Center for the Performing Arts on Friday for a small but very musically savvy and enthusiastic crowd. Judging by the performances ...

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 ...