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News: Recording

Trombone Shorty: New Album in Sept

July 14, 2011

NEW ALBUM FOR TRUE FEATURES JEFF BECK, KID ROCK, LENNY KRAVITZ, LEDISI, WARREN HAYNES, IVAN & CYRIL NEVILLE, AND MORE Trombone Shorty follows his Grammy nominated Backatown CD with For True to be released Sept 13 on Verve Forecast. For True features Troy Andrews' band, Orleans Avenue, as well as a string of legendary performers with ...

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News: Festival

Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival Hits Milestone Friday June 10

June 9, 2011

10th Anniversary Edition is June 10-18 for 9 days with 285 Concerts and 1000+ Artists Elvis Costello, Natalie Cole, k.d. lang, Chris Botti, Bela Fleck and The Fab Faux Headline Rochester, NY—The Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival (XRIJF) presented by M&T Bank will celebrate its 10th anniversary this Friday. The festival's largest edition opens June 10 ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Buckwheat Zydeco to Perform in Sellersville (PA) & Bordentown (NJ)

April 10, 2011

"Stanley 'Buckwheat' Dural leads one of the best bands in America. A down-home and high-powered celebration, meaty and muscular with a fine-tuned sense of dynamics...propulsive rhythms, incendiary performances."—The New York Times Grammy Award-winning American musical legend Stanley “Buckwheat" Dural Jr.—along with his band, Buckwheat Zydeco—is the preeminent ambassador of Louisiana zydeco music. Buckwheat Zydeco is on ...

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Article: In the Artist's Own Words

Wayne Wallace: The Thrill of the Grammys

by Wayne Wallace
March 15, 2011

I have had the honor of performing on four Grammy-nominated recordings. Mister E, by Pete Escovedo, S.F. Bay, by the Machete Ensemble, Then Some, by Steve Berrios, and Far East Suite, by Anthony Brown and the Asian American Orchestra. This was my second time being a part of a Grammy presentation, but my first as the ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Jazz Arts Group Welcomes Back the "Supafunkrock" of Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue

March 15, 2011

Jazz Arts Group's Inside Track series makes a surprise stop at the Capitol Theatre Riffe Center on Sunday, April 3 to welcome back 24-year-old New Orleans singer / songwriter / multi-instrumentalist and all-around musical powerhouse Troy “Trombone Shorty" Andrews & Orleans Avenue, with special guest Stretch Lefty. Rare indeed is the artist with the virtuosity to ...

News: Performance / Tour

Trombone Shorty with Los Amigos Invisibles | S.F. | Review

February 23, 2011

Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue with Los Amigos Invisibles :: 02.11.11 :: The Fillmore :: San Francisco, CA Walking down Geary towards The Fillmore the gaps in the sounds of the traffic zooming by on the boulevard were filled by a familiar yet seemingly out-of-place refrain, the source of which became clearer the closer I got ...

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News: Interview

Grammy Award-Winning Bassist Stanley Clarke Interviewed at All About Jazz

February 22, 2011

When bassist Stanley Clarke won the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album, last week, for The Stanley Clarke Band (Heads Up, 2010), it was particularly meaningful, given he was up against everyone from fellow fusion god John McLaughlin to young up-and-comer Trombone Shorty. But while this particular win has great significance for the bassist who ...

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News: TV / Film

Esperanza Spalding to perform at the GRAMMY Awards

February 9, 2011

Best New Artist GRAMMY nominee Esperanza Spalding will perform on the 53rd Annual GRAMMY Awards. The show will take place at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California from 5:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. on Sunday, February 13, 2011. The GRAMMY Awards will be broadcast live on the CBS Television Network from 8-11:30 p.m. ET/PT. Esperanza ...

News: Technology

Verve Music Group Launches "Cupid Breaker" Online Game

February 8, 2011

"Break Hearts and Get Free Music" is the tagline for Cupid Breaker (www.cupidbreaker.com), a new free online game launched February 4th from music label Verve just in time for Valentine's Day. In the tradition of enormously popular online games such as Angry Birds, users play Cupid and shoot arrows at flying hearts. The final point score ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Trombone Shorty Captures New Orleans and National Honors

February 3, 2011

Shorty, a 2010 GRAMMY nominee, is the big winner with five Offbeat magazine Best of the Beat awards; joins First Lady Michelle Obama and NBA superstar Kevin Durant as one of NBC News' “Grio's 100: History Makers in the Making" LOS ANGELES, Calif.—Trombone Shorty's star continues to rise as he is honored with more local and ...