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Trombone Shorty has released "No Good Time," the third single from Parking Lot Symphony, the Blue Note debut by the beloved bandleader, singer, songwriter and horn-blower born Troy Andrews, which comes out this Friday, April 28. The shuffling, bluesy song was written by Troy and the album's producer Chris Seefried, and features Troy singing and playing trombone, trumpet, keyboards and drums backed by his stellar band and a choir.
Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue have also announced an extensive Fall headline tour that kicks off September 14 at ACL Live in Austin, Texas, and includes two nights at Terminal 5 in New York City (October 13-14). Fan pre-sales begin Tuesday, April 25 at 10am local time, with general tickets going on sale Friday, April 28. The band also plays album release shows tonight in NYC at the Bowery Ballroom, and this Saturday, April 29 in New Orleans at their annual Treme Threauxdown at the Saenger Theatre. Trombone Shorty will also perform on May 7 at the 2017 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, where he has inherited the festival's prestigious closing set in the legacy of great New Orleans artists like the Neville Brothers and Professor Longhair. A summer co-headline tour with St. Paul & The Broken Bones will include a performance at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles on August. 30. For more tour details visit tromboneshorty.com/tour.
TROMBONE SHORTY & ORLEANS AVENUE - TOUR DATES (new dates in bold):
October 27 - Egyptian Room at Old National Centre - Indianapolis, IN
Part Jimi Hendrix, part James Brown and all New Orleans, Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews is the bandleader and frontman of Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, a hard-edged funk band that employs brass-band beats, rock dynamics and improvisation in a jazz tradition. NPR hailed him as "New Orleans' brightest new star in a generation," and New York Magazine wrote that "Trombone Shorty takes in a century-plus worth of sounds-ragtime and jazz and gospel and soul and R&B and hip-hop-and attacks everything he plays with festive fervor."
A 2011 GRAMMY Award nominee for his album Backatown (Verve), Andrews' virtuosity and high-energy live shows have drawn unanimous raves worldwide with Rolling Stone calling him a "must-see act." He was named to Forbes' "30 Under 30" Class of 2016 for Music along with Selena Gomez, The Weeknd and Jon Batiste. His illustrated autobiography for young readers, Trombone Shorty, was named a 2016 Caldecott Honor Book by the American Library Association. Andrews made his feature film debut in 2015-using his trombone to voice the iconic sound of the adult characters in the animated box office smash The Peanuts Movie.
Andrews is passing down his musical knowledge and keeping the New Orleans brass band tradition alive through his own Trombone Shorty Foundation and Music Academy, and since 2014 has worked as a "Turnaround Artist'" with the Turnaround Arts Initiative, a program that helps low-performing schools improve through intensive arts programs.