Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews is the kind of player that's taken Duke Ellington's philosophy of genres truly to heart—the outlook that "there are two kinds of music, good music and the other kind." ...

Take a handful of funk, add a pitcher of R&B, toss in some jazz, sprinkle a dusting of hip-hop, and sauté that gumbo under a sizzling New Orleans flame for a flavorful musical dish. It’s what the ...

There ain’t no party like a Trombone Shorty party. Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue headlined Friday night’s lineup at the 2025 Syracuse International Jazz Festival, delivering a non-stop dance party.

In December 1999, four world-class trombonists presented a spectacular concert at the Beethovenhalle in Bonn, Germany, and a few weeks later they gathered in a nearby studio to record this equally ...