Artist.......: Trombone Shorty
Album........: Live de la Semaine
Label........: n/a
Genre........: Jazz
Catnr........: n/a
Source.......: DVBS
Rip.date.....: 2012-12-07
Str.date.....: 2012-00-00
Quality......: 241kbps/48.0kHz/Joint Stereo
Url..........: http://www.tromboneshorty.com/
track title time
1. Live de la Semaine 27:16
* Buck Jump
* Suburbia
* Dumaine St.
* Hurricane Season
* The Craziest Things
* One Night Only
* Do To Me
Runtime 27:16
Size 47.09
Release Notes:
Trombone Shorty is the best-known moniker for Troy Andrews. He was born into a
well-known New Orleans musical family in 1986. His grandfather, Jessie Hill, was
a locally popular R&B recording artist. His older brother, James "12" Andrews,
was a successful jazz trumpeter who was also an early mentor. Andrews began
playing music at a very early age and was playing professionally at the age of
five. He mastered trombone, trumpet, and drums, eventually choosing the trombone
as his principal instrument and thus picking up his nickname. So advanced was he
that, at the age of eight, a club in the cityÆs TremΘ district, where he was
born and raised, was named Trombone Shorts in his honor.
Andrews became a member of the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts' (NOCCA)
musical education program for high school students; other graduates included
Harry Connick, Jr., Nicholas Payton, and Wynton and Branford Marsalis. At NOCCA,
Andrews took music theory, ear training, and instrumental instruction courses
under Clyde Kerr, Jr. and Kent Jordan, among others. In 2003 he was one of five
young musicians chosen as the subject for a PBS television documentary, and also
performed on the network's nationally broadcast tribute to Louis Armstrong,
directed by Wynton Marsalis. Outside his home town, Andrews has appeared with
the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, and has performed with U2 and Green Day. He
has also traveled extensively overseas, playing concerts and festivals in Cuba
and Europe; he has appeared at the Vienna Jazz Festival, the North Sea Jazz
Festival, and the Istanbul Jazz Festival.
As a recording artist, Andrews has appeared on Global Song of Kids, a collection
of childrenÆs songs played in the style of New Orleans marching bands released
in Japan. His first recording under his own name, SwinginÆ Gate, was issued in
2002 and featured several of his own compositions; it was acclaimed by jazz
critics. This was followed in 2004 by The Same Pocket, Vol. 1 (by the BlueBrass
Project) and 12 & Shorty (with his brother James' band). In 2005, Treme Records
released The End of the Beginning (by the Troy Andrews Quintet) and Orleans &
Claiborne (by Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews & Orleans Avenue), and four volumes
of his performances at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival entitled Live
at Jazz Fest 2004, 2006, 2007, and 2008. He also appeared on the club hit
"Tufflove" on Galactic's Ya-Ka-May in 2010 before releasing his Verve Records
debut, Backatown (on which he not only plays trombone but also sings and plays
trumpet, keyboards, drums, and other percussion), under the Trombone Shorty
moniker.
Backatown was greeted by nearly universal critical and commercial acclaim -- it
hit the Billboard jazz chart at number one and remained there for nine straight
weeks, and in the Top Ten for over six months; the album was nominated for a
Grammy Award in the Best Contemporary Jazz Album category. Andrews and his band
toured worldwide to support it, knocking out sold-out crowds all over the globe
with their high-energy meld of styles, opening for Jeff Beck and Dave Matthews,
as well as playing the Bonnaroo and Bumbershoot festival stages along the way.
Andrews also appeared, as himself, in several episodes of the HBO television
series TrΘme. Taking no time off, Shorty and Orleans Avenue recorded For True
during brief breaks from the road. For True was released on September 13, 2011.
It was produced by Ben Ellman and George Drakoulias, and featured a host of
guest appearances from Jeff Beck, Ledisi, Lenny Kravitz, Kid Rock, Warren
Haynes, Ivan and Cyril Neville, and the Rebirth Brass Band, among others.