

Bo Diddley heardįour-year-old Shorty playing trombone in the crowd and then brought him onto His brother James gave him his first ‘bone at age 4,īecause, they say, the family already had a trumpet player.

New Orleans soon recognized him as a sensational

He was raised in the city’s Treme neighborhood, which Shorty was the second youngest of six children of a family with a great His unique hybrid sound he calls “supafunkrock?” Didn’t Louis ArmstrongĪnd other Jazz greats do the same thing as Trombone Shorty? Let’s take a look.īorn in New Orleans on January 2, 1986, as Troy Andrews, Trombone That same man tinkered with traditional and modern Jazz music to create School as Wynton Marsalis, and who collected his first Jazz award as a His own street brass band as a New Orleans music prodigy be on that list? Could a teenager who attended the same music Performers, and Trombone Shorty is often on the list. Traditionalists might have something to say about that.Īsk any music critic or millennial to name their favorite Jazz Is he, or is he ain’t a Jazz man? Many Jazz
