New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Trombone Shorty has released "No Good Time," the third single from Parking Lot Symphony, the Blue Note debut by the beloved bandleader, singer, songwriter and horn-blower born Troy Andrews, which comes out this Friday, April 28. The shuffling, bluesy song was written by Troy and the album's producer Chris Seefried, and features Troy singing and playing trombone, trumpet, keyboards and drums backed by his stellar band and a choir.
Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue have also announced an extensive Fall headline tour that kicks off
September 14 at ACL Live in Austin, Texas, and includes two nights at Terminal 5 in New York City (October 13-14). Fan pre-sales begin Tuesday, April 25 at 10am local time, with general tickets going on sale Friday, April 28. The band also plays album release shows tonight in NYC at the Bowery Ballroom, and this Saturday, April 29 in New Orleans at their annual Treme Threauxdown at the Saenger Theatre. Trombone Shorty will also perform on May 7 at the 2017 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, where he has inherited the festival's prestigious closing set in the legacy of great New Orleans artists like the Neville Brothers and Professor Longhair. A summer co-headline tour with St. Paul & The Broken Bones will include a performance at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles on August. 30. For more tour details visit tromboneshorty.com/tour.
"gleaming, graceful, slightly gritty and distinctly modern."—The Wall Street Journal
"an entertainer, whose music blends jazz, funk, R&B and whatever else will get the crowd jumping and shouting... play it loud enough and questions of genre will fly away on the breeze from Andrews' horn."—Stereogum
"Parking Lot Symphony continues Trombone Shorty's personal tradition of stunningly good musicianship, crowd-pleasing good material and just plain good fun… Andrews keeps the music close to his heart and his hometown."—OffBeat
TROMBONE SHORTY & ORLEANS AVENUE - TOUR DATES:
April 24 - Bowery Ballroom - New York, NY
April 29 - Treme Threauxdown @ Saenger Theatre - New Orleans, LA
May 4 - Shorty Fest 2017 @ House of Blues - New Orleans, LA
May 7 - New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
May 20 - Central Washington University Concert Hall - Ellensburg, WA
June 2 - Dominion Arts Center - Richmond, VA
June 3 - The Ritz - Raleigh, NC
June 4 - Greenfield Lake Amphitheatre - Wilmington, NC
June 6 - Ridgefield Playhouse - Ridgefield, CT
June 8 - Burlington Discover Jazz Festival - Burlington, VT
June 9 - Ocean City
Music Pier - Ocean City, NJ
June 10 - Boarding House Park - Lowell, MA
June 11 - College Street
Music Hall - New Haven, CT
June 15 - Sherman Theater - Stroudsburg, PA
June 16 - Westbury Theater - Westbury, NY
June 17 - Aura - Portland, ME
June 24 - Bayou Boogaloo & Cajun Festival - Norfolk, VA
June 29 - Meijer Gardens Amphitheater - Grand Rapids, MI
June 30 - Summerfest - Milwaukee, WI
July 1 - Grandview Park Bandshell - Sioux City, IA
July 2 - ESSENCE Festival - New Orleans, LA
August 3 - Freeman Stage at
Bayside - Selbyville, DE
August 4 - Newport Jazz Festival - Newport, RI
August 5 - Summer
Spirit Festival - Columbia, MD
August 14 - Wilma Theatre - Missoula, MT
August 16 - Red Rocks Amphitheater - Morrison, CO
August 17 - Red Butte Garden Amphitheatre - Salt Lake City, UT **co-headline with St. Paul & The Broken Bones**
August 19 - Edgefield - Troutdale, OR **co-headline with St. Paul & The Broken Bones**
August 20 - Woodland Park Zoo - Seattle, WA **co-headline with St. Paul & The Broken Bones**
August 22 - Mountain Winery - Saratoga, CA **co-headline with St. Paul & The Broken Bones**
August 24 - Green
Music Center - Rohnert Park, CA **co-headline with St. Paul & The Broken Bones**
August 25 - Avila Beach Amphitheater - Avila Beach, CA **co-headline with St. Paul & The Broken Bones**
August 26 - The Chelsea - Las Vegas, NV **co-headline with St. Paul & The Broken Bones**
August 27 - Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre - San Diego, CA **co-headline with St. Paul & The Broken Bones**
August 30 - Hollywood Bowl - Los Angeles, CA **co-headline with St. Paul & The Broken Bones**
September 14 - ACL Live at the Moody Theater - Austin, TX
September 15 - Aztec Theater - San Antonio, TX
September 16 - Pavilion at the
Music Factory - Irving, TX
September 19 - House of Blues - Houston, TX
September 20 - Saenger Theater - Mobile, AL
September 21 - Tabernacle - Atlanta, GA
September 23 - Pilgrimage
Music & Cultural Festival - Franklin, TN
September 24 - Bourbon & Beyond Festival - Louisville, KY
September 26 - The Fillmore - Charlotte, NC
September 28 - Jannus Live - St. Petersburg, FL
September 29 - Revolution - Ft. Lauderdale, FL
September 30 - Revolution - Ft. Lauderdale, FL
October 1 - Ponte Vedra Concert Hall - Ponte Vedra, FL
October 10 - Orpheum Theater - Boston, MA
October 11 - The Fillmore - Philadelphia, PA
October 13 - Terminal 5 - New York, NY
October 14 - Terminal 5 - New York, NY
October 20 - Palace Theater - St. Paul, MN
October 21 - Riviera Theatre - Chicago, IL
October 23 - Danforth
Music Hall - Toronto, Canada
October 24 - Danforth
Music Hall - Toronto, Canada
October 26 - The Fillmore - Detroit, MI
October 27 - Egyptian Room at Old
National Centre - Indianapolis, IN
Part Jimi Hendrix, part
James Brown and all New Orleans, Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews is the bandleader and frontman of Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, a hard-edged funk band that employs brass-band beats, rock dynamics and improvisation in a jazz tradition. NPR hailed him as "New Orleans' brightest new star in a generation," and New York Magazine wrote that "Trombone Shorty takes in a century-plus worth of sounds—ragtime and jazz and gospel and soul and R&B and hip-hop—and attacks everything he plays with festive fervor."
A 2011 GRAMMY Award nominee for his album Backatown (Verve), Andrews' virtuosity and high-energy live shows have drawn unanimous raves worldwide with Rolling Stone calling him a "must-see act." He was named to Forbes' "
30 Under 30" Class of 2016 for
Music along with
Selena Gomez, The
Weeknd and Jon Batiste. His illustrated autobiography for young readers, Trombone Shorty, was named a 2016 Caldecott Honor Book by the American Library Association. Andrews made his feature film debut in 2015—using his trombone to voice the iconic sound of the adult characters in the animated box office smash The Peanuts Movie.
Andrews is passing down his musical knowledge and keeping the New Orleans brass band tradition alive through his own Trombone Shorty Foundation and
Music Academy, and since 2014 has worked as a "Turnaround Artist'" with the Turnaround Arts Initiative, a program that helps low-performing schools improve through intensive arts programs.
