Scores of former Ohio State University Marching Band members have come to the defense of its fired director and the organization’s reputation. We recently reported a university official made efforts ...

The peripatetic, both geographically and musically, trombonist Roswell Rudd ranges far and wide on these two albums: a trombone-dominated romp involving five bands from two continents and a ...

Long before Trombone Shorty certified the trombone’s viability as a lead instrument for a rock band with arena ambitions, MuleBone mounted a similar effort. Founded in New Orleans in the mid-1990s by ...

Sometime around 1990, photographer Michael P. Smith, one of the most prolific documentarians of New Orleans culture, snapped a photo at a second-line of Lois Nelson Andrews. The daughter of R&B singer ...

Over the weekend, Dave Matthews Band returned to Charlottesville, Va., for a pair of hometown shows at John Paul Jones Arena. On Friday and Saturday night, DMB welcomed a pair of guests, including ...

The band is called Bonerama. Three of its six members play trombone. So any gig Bonerama plays is guaranteed to be a bonapalooza. A confluence of musical activities led New Orleans trombonists Mark ...

Natalie Cressman is a rising star, but her career isn't easy to categorize. She's a jazz trombone player who's also a singer-songwriter, known in the jam band community for her work in the Trey ...

If you're a fan of Trombone Champ on Switch, then you might want to check out Disaster Band, an alternative that branches out to allow players to take control of 15 different intruments. Developed by ...

It was after midnight when Trombone Shorty stepped offstage at the House of Blues in New Orleans, but he wasn’t done playing yet. Not by a long shot. “I had an idea for a new song right after the show ...

It’s best not to ask why someone would outfit his trombone with a flamethrower. The better question is why the rest of the brass section hasn’t followed suit. For fairly obvious reasons, please don’t ...

With so many jazz and funk bands taking Syracuse by storm, we wanted to shine the spotlight on the horn section for a hot second. Though they're loud, they're sometimes forgotten behind guitarists and ...

Trombone Shorty is 39 years old but he's already taken center stage in New Orleans for 35 years. The Grammy Award winning musician from The Big Easy will perform "America the Beautiful" with ...