Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue live at 42nd International Jazzweek Burghausen 2011

Troy Andrews (tb, tp, voc)
Tim McFatter (s)
Pete Murano (g)
Mike Ballard (b)
Joey Peebles (dr)

recorded live at Wackerhalle, Burghausen, March 25, 2011

1. Backatown
2. Suburbia
3. Orleans and Claiborne
4. On Your Way Down
5. Hurricane Season
6. Groove On/ Right To Complain
7. St. James Infarmery
8. On The Sunny Side Of The Street
9. I Know You Wanna Be/ James Brown Medley
10. One Night Only/ Something Beautiful
11. When The Saints

Since Hurricane Katrina demolished New Orleans' musical infrastructure, there has been a committed reconfiguration of the city's brass-band tradition courtesy of young players like those in the Rebirth and Soul Rebels bands, among whom Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews perhaps offers the greatest crossover potential on his most recent album "For True", released on Verve Forecast.

Shorty here offers an explosive blend of funk, blues and jazz right from the opening bars of the rumbustious "Buckjump", where Rebirth's ebullient horns ride an itchy fatback groove against 5th Ward Weebie's syncopated vocal expostulations. It also includes the first of Shorty's athletic trombone solos, whose slippery, rowdy character is set against the fierier contributions of guest guitarists such as Warren Haynes and Jeff Beck, the latter typically dazzling on "Do to Me".