Trombone Shorty is best known as a trombone and trumpet player but plays drums, organ, and tuba.
11 Facts About Trombone Shorty
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Trombone Shorty has worked with some of the biggest names in rock, pop, jazz, funk, and hip hop.
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Trombone Shorty participated in brass band parades as a child, becoming a band leader by the age of six.
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Trombone Shorty was featured guest on "Hey Troy, Your Mama's Calling You," a tribute to "Hey Leroy, Your Mama's Calling You" a Latin jazz song by the Jimmy Castor Bunch in 1966.
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Trombone Shorty recorded on CDs from Galactic, Eric Clapton, and Lenny Kravitz and on the Academy Award nominated song "Down In New Orleans" with Dr John.
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That led to a friendship that has seen Trombone Shorty sit in with the Foo Fighters at their performances at Voodoo Festival in New Orleans, Dave Grohl's Birthday Bash at the Forum in Los Angeles and at the William Morris retreat at the Belly Up in Solana Beach, California.
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Trombone Shorty performed "Stay All Night" with Little Big Town at the 2016 Academy of Country Music Awards.
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Trombone Shorty's Blue Note debut, Parking Lot Symphony, was released on April 28,2017, the first day of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.
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In 2020, Trombone Shorty appeared as a guest on the Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip marathon fundraiser episode of The George Lucas Talk Show.
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Trombone Shorty's stewardship is credited with Andrews' exposure, groundedness and professionalism that kept him from the same pitfalls as many of his talented Treme contemporaries.
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In May 2018, Trombone Shorty won a Blues Music Award in the Blues Instrumentalist: Horn category.