#Slim andrews one man band movie#
#Slim andrews one man band full#

#Slim andrews one man band full#

When Andrews came back with a full band, the songs came to life. Not because he was too busy, but because he wanted to hit the road and see how the music changed on him. “I had everything in a circle: tuba, trombone, trumpet, keyboard, Fender Rhodes, Wurly, B3 organ, guitar, bass, drums-and me buried in the middle.” He recorded an album’s worth of ideas and then, well, walked away for a year. “I had two weeks at home so I went to the studio and set up the ‘playground,'” he recalls. Considering Andrews’ relentless schedule, it’s all the more surprising that this LP began with him in a room, all alone, back in New Orleans.

#Slim andrews one man band movie#

In the last four years, Andrews banked his fifth White House gig backed Macklemore and Madonna at the Grammys played on albums by She & Him, Zac Brown, Dierks Bentley, and Mark Ronson opened tours for Daryl Hall & John Oates and Red Hot Chili Peppers appeared in Foo Fighters’ Sonic Highways documentary series voiced the iconic sound of the adult characters in The Peanuts Movie inherited the esteemed annual fest-closing set at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival in the tradition of Crescent City greats like the Neville Brothers and Professor Longhair and released Trombone Shorty, a children’s book about his life that was named a Caldecott Honor Book in 2016.Īdding to that legacy, his Blue Note Records debut Parking Lot Symphony finds Andrews teamed with Grammy-nominated producer Chris Seefried (Andra Day, Fitz and the Tantrums) and an unexpected array of cowriters and players including members of Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, The Meters, Better Than Ezra, and Dumpstaphunk. Some artists don’t work until they put a record out but I never stopped going.” Truly. True to its title, this album contains multitudes of sound-from brass band blare and deep-groove funk, to bluesy beauty and hip-hop/pop swagger-and plenty of emotion all anchored, of course, by stellar playing and the idea that, even in the toughest of times, as Andrews says, “Music brings unity.”Īs for why it’s taken Andrews so long to follow 2013’s Raphael Saadiq-produced Say That to Say This, the man simply says, “I didn’t realize so much time passed. 1,” named after one of the city’s most famous voodoo queens-shows off our host’s roots before Parking Lot Symphony branches out wildly, wonderfully, funkily across 12 diverse cuts. That bit of beautiful New Orleans soul-”Laveau Dirge No. Trombone Shorty’s new album opens with a dirge, but if you think the beloved bandleader, singer, songwriter and horn-blower born Troy Andrews came here to mourn, you got it all wrong.