The devil's song is a slow blues, a heavy shuffle fueled by an eternal fire. Often we forget that the blues represents the feeling of being human, the tension and restlessness of a constant state of limbo, rather than to abide to some heavenly form. The moans, groans, and woes of this life and death are what we try to emulate when we sing the blues.
Read MoreFrom the album, Dumaine Street Blues
Read MoreOn the 1974 album The Payback, the recording of “Shoot Your Shot” features the interplay between Mr. Brown, Fred Wesley, and Maceo Parker that pushed their live shows to legendary heights.
Read MoreFred Wesley's trombone solo is the sound of a man who only wants to do one thing - to play his horn.
Read MoreIf the goal of Say That To Say This was to elevate Trombone Shorty’s career to match that of the accomplished bassist, then his performance on “Shortyville” alone is a testament to the level of artistry behind Raphael Saadiq’s production.
Read MoreSongwriters Sam Hollander and Kristian “Boots” Ottestad contributed to the song “Dream On,” co-written with Trombone Shorty’s band.
Read MoreWhen The Meters - Art Neville, Leo Nocentelli, George Porter Jr., Zigaboo Modeliste, and Cyril Neville - reunited in a New Orleans studio for the first time in over 30 years to record with Trombone Shorty, it was a pretty big deal.
Read MoreThe Vieux Carré cocktail - a blend of colonial liquors - was invented at the New Orleans rotating bar, Carousel Piano Bar & Lounge, using the French translation of “old square” to reflect the mixed cultures of the city.
Read MoreSwedish guitarist Anders Osborne started a long way from home.
Read MoreTrombone Shorty’s collaborations with Atlanta songwriter David Ryan Harris incorporated the funk rock influence of Harris’ group, Follow For Now - the Black rock band that inherited the Afro-punk traditions of bands like Living Colour, Fishbone, and Bad Brains who pushed back against MTV’s whitewashing of mainstream rock music.
Read MoreA master of the tailgate style, Freddie Lonzo plays the trombone where most others do not, within the pockets of inhalations, the hiccups in between beats, while sliding around the harmonic boundaries as if to wrangle the wandering herd of musical voices.
Read MoreOriginally released in 2013, Trombone Shorty’s third and final album on Verve Records, Say That To Say This, intended to re-package the New Orleans jazz musician as an R&B superstar.
Read MoreRaphael Saadiq reigned in the help of his touring band, drummer Lemar Carter and bassist Calvin Turner, along with his songwriting partner, Taura Stinson, to craft a song that would blend with the modern-era revival of soul music.
Read MoreCo-written with Alonzo “Novel” Stevenson and Taura Stinson, “Fire and Brimstone” contains twelve bars of Trombone Shorty’s best improvisational flow.
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