![]() The following year – at age 17 – he formed the group Orleans Avenue and recorded Orleans & Claiborne for Treme Records and also paid tribute to one of his city’s oldest professional trumpeters on Trombone Shorty Meets Lionel Ferbos, trading licks with the 90-year-old trumpeter on tunes such as “Mahogany Hall Stomp” and “Tishomingo Blues.”Īs you can see, Shorty’s professional career blossomed while he was a teenager in Louisiana, but at age 20 in 2005 he decided to see the world. In 2002, he released the first album under his own name, Trombone Shorty’s Swingin’ Gate, for Louisiana Red Hot Records, and in 2004, he and his older brother, trumpeter James Andrews, waxed a disc called 12 & Shorty for Keep Swingin’ Records. Shorty soon became a member of the Stooges Brass Band. Taking his music seriously even as a kid, Shorty studied at the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts, the jazz incubator founded in 1973 on Perrier Street, Uptown. When Troy Andrews made his New Orleans jazz parade debut at age 6, they called him “Trombone Shorty.” The nickname stuck even though he’s now a tall and handsome 30-year-old man and one of the hottest tickets in all of jazz. ![]()
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