Louis Armstrong always had a sidekick trombonist. And he's very influenced by Louis Armstrong.
But, you know, my brother plays the trumpet. Can you even remember why you picked the trombone?ĪNDREWS: No. SAGAL: Let me ask you a couple of basic questions. It's like "Behind The Music" Trombone Shorty got addicted the PEZ, you know? I imagine the lifestyle for a 6-year-old professional musician is crazy. SAGAL: Yeah I understand, started booking dates. And then we tried - turned it into the Trombone Shorty Brass Band as we got a little older and we started to work a bit more. So we would get out of school at three or four o'clock and we would walk home and then five o'clock every day you can catch us practicing and going around the neighborhood. SAGAL: Well, what was the name of your band?ĪNDREWS: The name of my band - first it was called the Five O'clock Band because we would go to school and.ĪNDREWS: No. The other bands down there in Jackson Square must've looked at you guys and said we don't have a chance because the little rascals are here playing.ĪNDREWS: That's the real name of a band too. Speaking as a sometime tourist in New Orleans myself, you must've cleaned up.
So did you have to take - like on your breaks, did you have like juice boxes?ĪNDREWS: No, we actually took the money we made and got us a good Lucky Dog. The other members of the band at this time - the band you're leading when you were six - how old were they?ĭICKINSON: Oh my gosh. And then whatever I couldn't play or whatever they couldn't play, and I learned it and taught it to those guys. SAGAL: How does a 6-year-old lead a band?ĪNDREWS: Well, my brother taught me a bunch of things and I wanted to imitate him so I got some of my neighbors together and I put together this brass band and we would go out to Jackson Square. SAGAL: And I read that you were leading your own band? And I had to use a trumpet mouthpiece because my lips were so small. And you picked up a trombone when you were 4 years old?ĪNDREWS: Yeah I did. SAGAL: Really? So you started playing when you were really young. SAGAL: So people walking down the street go hey, Trombone Shorty. Andrews? What should we call you?ĪNDREWS: Whatever you like. SAGAL: So first things first, how should we - should we call you Trombone? Should we call you Shorty? Should we call you Troy, which was your birth name? Mr. And under the name Trombone Shorty he has spread New Orleans' music around the world. Troy Andrews grew up in Treme, the same neighborhood as Louis Armstrong, and went to the same performing arts academy as Harry Connick and Terence Blanchard and the Marsalis brothers. In New Orleans they grow musicians like San Francisco sprouts billionaires and New York grows jerks. And now the game where somebody who does a lot of things really well is asked about one of the holes in his resume.
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