It’s Thursday night at Penn Social, a sports bar in Penn Quarter, and the so-called Trombone King is winning over the basement crowd. He hops off stage with expert showmanship and a version of “Get ...

Troy Andrews, better known as Trombone Shorty, grew up with music all around him in New Orleans, first playing on the streets at age 4. Now with a Grammy, an international following and a new album, ...

Sometime around 1990, photographer Michael P. Smith, one of the most prolific documentarians of New Orleans culture, snapped a photo at a second-line of Lois Nelson Andrews. The daughter of R&B singer ...

As Trombone Shorty put it, Spokane took “a little trip down to New Orleans” at Northern Quest Resort and Casino on Sunday night. I barely missed the first opener, Dumpstaphunk, but the second opener, ...

Long before Trombone Shorty certified the trombone’s viability as a lead instrument for a rock band with arena ambitions, MuleBone mounted a similar effort. Founded in New Orleans in the mid-1990s by ...