Performance at The White House February 21, 2012 for Black History Month celebration, In Performance at the White House: Red, White & Blues, joining Jeff Beck, Gary Clark, Jr., Shemekia Copeland, Buddy Guy, Warren Haynes, Mick Jagger, B.B. King, Keb Mo, Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks, with Booker T. Jones as music director and band leader, broadcast on PBS
New Album For True out September 13, 2011, featuring guest appearances by Jeff Beck, Kid Rock, Lenny Kravitz, Ledisi, Warren Haynes, Ivan Neville, Cyril Neville, The Rebirth Brass Band and more - #1 on Billboard's Contemporary Jazz Chart for 12 weeks and counting
Trombone Shorty guests on Jeff Beck's 2012 GRAMMY nominated Rock 'N' Roll Party Honoring Les Paul as well as writing the song "AP Touro" on Rebirth Brass Band's 2012 GRAMMY Winning album Rebirth Of New Orleans
2011 GRAMMY Nominee for Backatown for Best Contemporary Jazz Album
Featured on 2011 GRAMMY Nominated CDs:
♦ Performs "Ooh Pooh Pah Doo" on Treme, Music from the HBO Original Series, for Best Compilation Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media
♦ "Down In New Orleans" playing with Dr. John (FromThe Princess And The Frog) for Best Song Written For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media
2012 OffBeat magazine Best of The Beat Award WINNER:
♦ Artist of the Year
♦ Album of the Year for For True
♦ Best R&B/Funk Artist
♦ Best R&B/Funk Album for For True
♦ Best Trombonist
♦ Best Music Video for "Do To Me"
2011 OffBeat magazine Best of the Beat Award WINNER:
♦ Artist of the Year
♦ Album of the Year for Backatown
♦ Best R&B/Funk Artist
♦ Best R&B/Funk Album for Backatown
♦ Best Trombonist
RECENT MAGAZINE COVER STORIES include DOWNBEAT, JAZZIZ, RHYTHMS (Australia), JAZZ NEWS (France) and JAZZ N' MORE (Switzerland)
Featured as the Music Rising December (2011) Spotlight Artist. Music Rising, with founders including U2's The Edge, was launched to rescue the musical culture of the US Central Gulf region by replacing musical instruments lost or destroyed in the deluge of 2005.
New collaboration featuring Trombone Shorty with Mark Ronson, Erykah Badu, Mos Def, Zigaboo Modeliste and members of the Dap Kings on "A La Modeliste" is now streaming on YouTube. Recorded in New Orleans, the song is part of the Re:Generation Music Project supported by the Grammys. The song will be featured in the documentary of the project coming in February 2012.
Troy was honored for the 2nd year in a row with the 2011 Big Easy Music Award for Best Male Performer. He was recognized as Entertainer of the Year in 2010 and won Best Male Performer in 2008 as well.
Backatown (April 2010 Verve Forecast), Trombone Shorty's major label debut, produced by Galactic's Ben Ellman, featured guest appearances by Lenny Kravitz, Allen Toussaint and Marc Broussard
Upon release, Backatown entered Billboard Magazine's Contemporary Jazz Album chart at #1, staying there for 9 weeks straight and remaining in the Top 10 on the chart over half a year later and counting as of this writing.
"…a native prodigy destined for breakout success. "Backatown," with its blend of tight funk, power-chord rock and slinky R&B, builds on that premise, presenting him as an unstoppable force." - New York Times
"...already a New Orleans MVP. Backatown is both deeply rooted and culturally omnivorous." - Rolling Stone
USA TODAY 4/16/2010: New Orleans music hero Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews, 24, readies his first national release. Hear him play for USA TODAY and talk about his Treme upbringing.
Tour Highlights:
UK Tour with Jeff Beck - October 2010
US Tour with Dave Matthews Band - November 2010
Brazil Tour - August 2010
European Tours - March, July, September 2011
Japan - July and December 2010
Australia, New Zealand, Singapore - April 2011
United States and Canada - Constantly
TV and Radio Appearances Include:
Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews as himself on HBO's Emmy Award nominated hit series, Treme
Conan
Late Show with David Letterman
Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Jimmy Kimmel Live
Tavis Smiley
CNN, Good Morning America, ESPN
NBC's NFL Kickoff with Dave Matthews Band
NBC's 2010 NFL Premier Game - performing with Grandpa "Playing For Change" Elliott used as commercial wraparound
Austin City Limits
MTV's Real World New Orleans 2010 Theme - Trombone Shorty's "Hurricane Season"
NPR's On Point, April
NPR's Mountain Stage, May
American Routes, July
Also Profiled on both CNN.com and Time.com
Trombone Shorty as Special Guest:
Eric Clapton CD, Clapton, released September 2010
Lenny Kravitz CD Out August 30, 2011
Galactic and Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars' current releases
Onstage with Jeff Beck June 2010 for Les Paul Tribute on PBS and DVD, and during October 2010 UK Tour
Onstage with Gov't Mule August 2010 - Philadelphia
Collaboration with Mos Def, Lenny Kravitz, Tim Robbins and Preservation Hall Jazz Band for the song and video of "It Ain't My Fault" to benefit Gulf Aid
Earlier collaborations include: Buckwheat Zydeco's 2010 GRAMMY Winning Lay Your Burden Down; Dr. John and the Lower 911's 2009 GRAMMY Winning City That Care Forgot; the Oscar nominated "Down In New Orleans" with Dr. John (from the hit Disney film The Princess and the Frog); Harry Connick Jr.'s Oh, My NOLA; Kermit Ruffins' Livin' a Treme Life and many more.
Festivals:
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival (Annually)
Mountain Jam Festival - Hunter, New York
Bonnaroo
Playboy Jazz Festival - Hollywood Bowl
Montreal, Montreux and Monterey Jazz Festivals
Virgin Mobile Festival - Merriweather Post Pavilion, MD
Hardly Strictly Bluegrass - San Francisco
Austin City Limits Festival
Voodoo Festival - New Orleans
And Many More
Red Hot + New Orleans
Trombone Shorty reigned as musical director of "Red Hot + New Orleans" at New York's Brooklyn Academy of Music on December 3 & 4, 2010 with guests appearances including Dr. John, Ledisi, Irma Thomas, Marc Broussard, Partners-N-Crime, Kermit Ruffins, Ivan Neville and more. Part of the proceeds benefited New Orleans' NO/AIDS Task Force.
Troy initiated a direct collaboration with then Louisiana Lieutenant Governor, now Mayor of New Orleans, Mitch Landrieu's Office to speak in schools about the importance of making the right choices growing up and how music has helped him stay focused. He also works with New Orleans' Roots of Music organization, whose stated goal is to assist the education system in providing a well rounded arts curriculum with academic support by providing music education in history, theory, instrumental instruction and ensemble performance.
In 2009, he was featured on the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival's annual Congo Square official poster. At 23, he became the youngest artist ever to be pictured on the prestigious Jazz Fest poster - the next youngest was Wynton Marsalis, who was featured at age 41.
"Shorty possesses the rarest combination of talent, technical capability and down home soul. I'm his biggest fan." - Wynton Marsalis
Trombone Shorty "flaunted the presence of a rock star... He played trombone with almost combative postures." - Jon Pareles, New York Times
Troy was honored as Entertainer of the Year and won his 2nd Best Male Performer Award at the 2010 Big Easy Music Awards
Offbeat, New Orleans' premier music magazine, has awarded Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue Best R&B/Funk Band three times (2008, 2009 & 2011). Trombone Shorty himself has picked up three awards for Performer of The Year (2007, 2008 & 2011) and Best Trumpeter (2009 & 2010).
2010 and 2011 were breakout years for Trombone Shorty, but his story has been building for over two decades. New Orleans has watched his rise, from playing trumpet and trombone in a jazz band led by his older brother James when he was six, to his breakthrough in 2005 at age 19, when he toured the world as a member of Lenny Kravitz's band. "Shorty's a genius," says Kravitz, "he plays his ass off and he's a beautiful human being." The next year in 2006, Troy and other New Orleans stars performed together with U2 and Green Day, collaborating as one band, during the Louisiana Superdome's post-Hurricane Katrina re-opening spectacular. Soon after, Troy's Christmas 2006 acting debut on NBC's series Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (leading a group of New Orleans musicians in a performance of the holiday classic "O Holy Night") drew such an enthusiastic response from viewers that NBC released the single for free download on NBC.com. Taking a break from the road in 2008, he performed at the NBA All-Star Game with Harry Connick Jr., Kermit Ruffins and Branford Marsalis. It’s been a whirlwind ever since, as Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue have taken their patented Supafunkrock show to all corners of the globe, scoring raves everywhere - with much more to come.
