Red-hot musician Trombone Shorty ready to heat up Power Center
Troy Andrews —AKA Trombone Shorty —has definitely been on a roll for the last year or so.First, in April of 2010, he released the super-funky “Backatown” album—a disc that won glowing reviews and helped him break out to the mass audience.
Before long, he was playing more high-profile gigs—including one of the prestigious closing slots at Jazzfest and his debut gig at the Hollywood Bowl for the Playboy Jazz Festival.
In December, “Backatown” was nominated for a Grammy for Best Contemporary Jazz Album, and in January, Andrews won five Best of the Beat awards from the New Orleans’ Offbeat magazine—snagging honors for Artist of the Year, Album of the Year, Best R&B/Funk Artist, Best R&B/Funk Album and Best Trombonist.
Then, in February, Andrews was named to NBC News’ “The Grio’s 100: History Makers in the Making”—a list of the top 100 African-American men and women who are helping to write the next chapter of American history.
And Andrews and his band, Orleans Avenue, are presently knocking audiences dead on their current tour, which comes to the Power Center on Tuesday for an Ann Arbor Summer Festival show.
The music on “Backatown,” is a combustible roux of funk, rock, New Orleans R&B, and hip-hop that Andrews—a New Orleans native—has dubbed "Supafunkrock."
“Backatown” is a term used by New Orleans natives for an area of the city that includes the historic Treme neighborhood, where Andrews grew up. That area also encompasses Congo Square, the birthplace of Louis Armstrong, and which has been dubbed "the most musical neighborhood in America's most musical city." (The Treme district, of course, has also been depicted, in gritty fashion, in the HBO series of the same name.)
The album was produced by Ben Ellman of Galactic (another New Orleans native) and includes guests turns by Lenny Kravitz, Marc Broussard and New Orleans legend Allen Toussaint, who plays piano on his own composition, "On Your Way Down," which is the album’s lone cover—the other 13 songs were written or co-written by Andrews.
Andrews, only 25 years old, has been hailed not only as a stellar trombonist, but also for his trumpet-playing talents. Plus, he’s an expressive singer and charismatic front man.
And the critics are fully on board. After catching one of Andrews’ live gigs, The New York Times’ Jon Pareles wrote that Andrews “flaunted the presence of a rock star," and USA Today effused about his "blistering, bold, exuberant and cutting edge" performances.
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