For all of the progressive funk-meets-rock-meets-jazz-meets-blues fusion of Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue’s kinetic opening-night show at the Jazz Aspen Snowmass June Experience, the song that ...

Being nominated for a Grammy Award is an amazing accomplishment — especially when it happens more than once, as one University of Massachusetts Amherst professor knows. Ben Barnett, an adjunct faculty ...

Watching jazz trombonist Michael Dease improvise solos in front of a wailing big band is like watching a high-flying trapeze artist. He soars to great heights, takes huge risks, depends on the team ...

Trombone Shorty of Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue performs at Danforth Music Hall on Feb. 16, 2024, in Toronto, Ontario. The fan favorite will headline the 48th annual Saratoga Jazz Festival on June ...

There ain’t no party like a Trombone Shorty party. Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue headlined Friday night’s lineup at the 2025 Syracuse International Jazz Festival, delivering a non-stop dance party.

Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews has held down the final set of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival since 2013, and he often makes the show a big display of New Orleans music and culture via ...

You will receive many opportunities to perform with a variety of ensembles large and small. In addition to regular CU big band and combo concerts on campus, students often perform in other venues in ...

Since its creation over 40 years ago, Texas Tech’s Trombone Choir has been a key piece of the university’s music department, ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - Columbia jazz composer Ron Westray found his love for music at an early age, but the journey to where he is now has been anything but predictable. Born June 13th, 1970, Columbia ...

Jazz Fest, one of the nation’s liveliest annual music celebrations, should have been full-throttle this week in New Orleans. Instead, the city remains locked down, a hot spot in the COVID-19 pandemic ...

Pope Leo XIV played the trombone in a jazz band in the 1970s and '80s and was known in Chicago music circles as "Bobby Prev." In May 2025, after cardinals in Vatican City chose Robert Francis Prevost, ...