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7:00 PM SUNDAY, AUGUST 26, 2018
PAVILION
TROMBONE SHORTY’S VOODOO THREAUXDOWN
featuring
:
TROMBONE SHORTY
& ORLEANS AVENUE
†
GALACTIC
†
PRESERVATION HALL JAZZ BAND
NEW BREED BRASS BAND
†
with special guests
WALTER “WOLFMAN” WASHINGTON
†
CYRIL NEVILLE
KERMIT RUFFINS
†
†
Ravinia debut
TROMBONE SHORTY &ORLEANS AVENUE
Born Troy Andrews in New Orleans just over
years ago, the future Trombone Shorty began
learning music from his family at an early age,
developing chops on the trumpet and drums
before settling on the trombone as his primary
instrument and earning professional gigs before
the age of . He began attending the New Orle-
ans Center for Creative Arts, and by
he had
made his rst recording under his own name,
Swingin’ Gate
, which featured several original
compositions. While working up a fresh setlist,
Andrews contributed to
’s
e Same Pocket,
Vol.
by the BlueBrass Project and
& Shorty
,
a collaboration with his older brother, trumpet-
er James “ ” Andrews. With the so-called Troy
Andrews Quintet, he followed up in
with
e End of the Beginning
, but another disc on
the same local label (Treme Records) later that
year,
Orleans & Claiborne
, was credited to Troy
“Trombone Shorty” Andrews & Orleans Ave-
nue. Around this same time, he toured in Len-
ny Kravitz’s horn section, later joining Kravitz,
the Rebirth Brass Band, and others to record
“Whole Lotta Lovin’ ” for the
Fats Domi-
no tribute disc
Goin’ Home
. Andrews’s next four
albums featured sets from the
,
,
,
and
New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festi-
vals. In
he joined the Verve Records roster
under just the moniker Trombone Shorty and
released
Backatown
, on which he also sang and
played trumpet, keyboards, and assorted per-
cussion. e disc hit number one on
Billboard
’s
jazz chart and earned him a Grammy nomina-
tion. Between
and
, Andrews appeared
as himself in several episodes of the HBO series
Treme
, a drama set in his native neighborhood.
Even with little downtime from touring, Shorty
& Orleans Avenue released
For True
in
with
special guests including Kravitz and guitarists
Je Beck and Warren Haynes.
Say
at to Say
is
followed in
, digging deep into New
Orleans R&B and funk. A er signing with Blue
Note Records, the group returned with
Parking
Lot Symphony
in
. Trombone Shorty & Orle-
ans Avenue are making their Ravinia debut.
Tonight’s concert celebrates the tercentennial of the City of New Orleans
as well as the musical connection between the Crescent and Windy Cities
in celebration of the Illinois bicentennial Constitution Day.
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