Troy Andrews  Genres: Jazz Decades Active: 2000s   1986, New
Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Andrews was born into a well-known New
Orleans musical family, his grandfather, Jessie Hill, being a
locally popular R&B recording artist. His older brother, James
Andrews, a successful jazz trumpeter, known as ‘12’, was an
early tutor who had himself been mentored by veteran jazzman
Danny Barker. Troy Andrews began playing music at a very early
age and was playing professionally at the age of five. He
mastered trombone, trumpet, and drums, eventually choosing the
trombone as his principal instrument and thus picking up his
nickname, Trombone Shorty. So advanced was he that, at the age
of eight, a club in the city’s Tremé district, where he was born
and raised was named Trombone Shorty’s in his honour.  Andrews
became a member of the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts’
musical education programme for high school students, other
graduates of which include Harry Connick...  Arrow Read the Full
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