Trombone Shorty Interviewed: Born to blow
By Graham Reid
Troy Andrews – better known as Trombone Shorty – is one of the rising stars of the New Orleans jazz scene. But he had a head start, he was playing trombone in local brass bands when he was six.
He attended the same arts college as Wynton and Branford Marsalis and Harry Connick Jnr, got out and played with rock bands (Lenny Kravitz, was with U2 and Green Day when they played the re-opening of the New Orleans Superdome in 2006), sits in with numerous local bands including Galactic, and his album Backatown topped the Billboard Contemporary Jazz Chart for nine weeks last year.