Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews has been hailed as one of New Orleans' brightest young stars. From the age of 4, he honed his jazz skills at funerals and played for change in the city's Jackson Square.

Trombonist Wayne Henderson - a co-founder of the bebop ensemble the Jazz Crusaders and the popular jazz-soul fusion band the Crusaders - died April 5 of heart failure at his home in Los Angeles, his ...

SHORT PUMP, Va. -- Short Pump Elementary School music teacher Jill Garcia got a wild idea while teaching her students about jazz. Famous jazz musician Trombone Shorty was scheduled to play a nearby ...

Columns share an author's personal perspective and are often based on facts in the newspaper's reporting. At a Bo Diddley show in New Orleans around 1990, a 4-year-old walked by playing a trombone ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) – Local musician Troy ...

Trombone Shorty, born Troy Andrews, grew up in a family of musicians. Before he was old enough for Kindergarten, he was on stage performing on New Orleans’ biggest stage: Jazz Fest. Since then, his ...

For the past two years, the Denver-based band Paper Bird has been playing to packed houses throughout the West. The seven-piece band mixes multipart harmonies with a deliberately vintage sound. It's a ...

When it comes to celebrating arrivals and departures, no city in America does it better than New Orleans. It’s just one reason it’s a booking coup that the Crescent City’s foremost young cultural ...