Īndrews performed on "Where Y'At" as part of the Sixth Ward All-Star Brass Band Revue featuring Charles Neville of The Neville Brothers. In the film, he performed with Kermit Ruffins and Irvin Mayfield on " Skokiaan", and was a guest performer with the Dirty Dozen Brass Band on "My Feet Can't Fail Me Now" as well as a guest performer with Big Sam's Funky Nation on "Bah Duey Duey". He was featured guest on "Hey Troy, Your Mama's Calling You," a tribute to "Hey Leroy, Your Mama's Calling You" a Latin jazz song by the Jimmy Castor Bunch in 1966.Īndrews is interviewed on screen and appears in performance footage in the 2005 documentary film Make It Funky!, which presents a history of New Orleans music and its influence on rhythm and blues, rock and roll, funk and jazz. Andrews was part of the New Orleans Social Club, a group formed after Hurricane Katrina to record a benefit album. In 2005, Andrews was a featured member of Lenny Kravitz's horn section in a world tour that shared billing with acts including Aerosmith.
Andrews graduated in 2004 from Warren Easton High School. Since his youth, Andrews has been mentored by Cyril Neville, whom he calls "a second father". Andrews attended the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA) along with fellow musician Jon Batiste. Andrews' parents opened a nightclub in Tremé called Trombone Shorty's, where he would play on occasion as a child, as well as a jam space for musicians called "The Space". In his teens, he was a member of the Stooges Brass Band. He participated in brass band parades as a child, becoming a band leader by the age of six. Bo Diddley heard the four-year-old Andrews playing and invited him on stage at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. Īt the age of four, Andrews started playing a trombone given to him by his brother James "because the family already had a trumpet player".
Other musical family members include his brother James Andrews III and cousins Glen David Andrews and the late Travis "Trumpet Black" Hill. Andrews' father James Andrews Jr., a member of the Bayou Steppers Social Aid & Pleasure Club, would frequently invite musician friends to visit their home. Andrews' family have deep roots in the music scene of New Orleans - his grandfather was musician Jessie Hill, his great-uncle Walter "Papoose" Nelson played with Fats Domino, and Andrews' mother Lois Nelson Andrews was a regular grand marshal of jazz funerals and second-line parades in New Orleans, where she routinely encouraged young musicians and was known as the "Mother of Music" and "Queen of the Tremé". and Lois Andrews in New Orleans and grew up in the culturally vibrant Tremé neighborhood, steeped in New Orleans jazz, R&B and music-related traditions such as second line parades. Trombone Shorty at age five, with the Carlsberg Brass Band, New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, 1991Īndrews was born to James Andrews Jr.
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