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 ...

If Trombone Shorty needs a roof over his head between weekends at Coachella, the new Brooklyn Bowl should feel just like home. The trombone and trumpet funk dealer had his last two albums produced by ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Trombone Shorty and an all-star group of American artists and student musicians from his Trombone Shorty Foundation took a five-day cultural exchange trip in Cuba from Jan. 11 through 15. During the ...

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 ...

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… ...

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 ...

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 ...