The Trombone Shorty Foundation promotes a message of unity with its fourth annual Getting Funky in Havana pilgrimage. The Trombone Shorty Foundation held its fourth annual Getting Funky in Havana ...

New Orleans luminaries, Cuban musicians, and students unite in a transformative musical journey. Since 2018, the Trombone Shorty Foundation has been fostering a unique cultural exchange through its ...

Editor's note: This Saturday and next, we feature CDs by artists playing at this year's TD Ottawa International Jazz Festival. Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews is the New Orleans wunderkind whose ...

The Trombone Shorty Foundation brings New Orleans to Cuba. The Trombone Shorty Foundation completed its annual “Get Funky In Havana” pilgrimage, Jan. 16-20. Described as a cultural exchange, the trip ...

In almost any town anywhere in the world, at any time, ever, the very thought of a trombone jam would be reason enough to reschedule your night out, stay home and take cover in the basement, away from ...

Trombone Shorty and an all-star group of American artists and student musicians from his Trombone Shorty Foundation took a five-day cultural exchange trip in Cuba from Jan. 11 through 15. During the ...

The funky sound of Fred Wesley's trombone landed on the World Beat desk this week courtesy of an album he released in 1974, with his band, Fred Wesley & the New JB's, called Breakin' Bread (originally ...

Call it civic pride of the first order. Troy Andrews, known to fans of furious funk and roots music as Trombone Shorty, has such a deep and abiding love for the city of his birth that he decided to ...

The strongest winds to hit Louisiana this year didn't occur between June and November. They came weeks earlier, in the fierce gusts that launched Trombone Shorty's May LP Backatown (Verve Forecast) ...