SPECIAL GIVEAWAY :: New Orleans jazz/funk phenom Trombone Shorty plays the 9:30 Club

Trombone Shorty plays in December at the 9:30 Club. Enter the contest and you could win two free early-bird tickets. Courtesy Jonathan Mannion

by Giovanni Russonello
Editorial board

Is there any more powerful, pleasure-seeking, dance-inducing performer today than Trombone Shorty? The New Orleans native makes music that seems to ignore genre, and aims for your hips. So we’re glad to be giving away a couple early-bird tickets for Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue’s upcoming performance at the 9:30 Club.

The trombonist, trumpeter and vocalist will be doing a three-night run at the end of December, helping D.C. ring in the new year with shows on Dec. 29, 30 and 31. If you haven’t experienced his thrilling live show yet, now’s the time.

We have two tickets to give away for the Dec. 30 show. To get a hold of them, click below and enter our contest by sharing CapitalBop’s Facebook post.

 
A hundred years after jazz emerged in New Orleans and about 80 after the music’s epicenter moved to New York City, the Crescent City just keeps on coughing up talent. Artists who renew the music, and show us new ways that it can be bent and combined with other music. Most of all, New Orleans music is dance music, and social music — what musicologists call “functional,” and most people call “fun as hell.” The 27-year-old Trombone Shorty is just the latest in a long line of jazz-trained musicians to mix and mash it with funk, soul, rock, hip-hop and much else. In lots of ways, he’s a James Black for the 21st century.

Don’t miss this young master when he hits D.C. in December!

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About Giovanni Russonello

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A co-founder of CapitalBop, Giovanni Russonello is also a music writer and critic for the New York Times. He also teaches writing as a lecturer at New York University's School of Professional Studies. He previously served as a contributor to the Washington Post, the FADER, JazzTimes, NPR Music and others, and hosted “On the Margin,” a books show on WPFW-FM. He graduated from Tufts University with a bachelor’s degree in history, with a focus on African-American history. Reach Giovanni at [email protected]. Read him at giovannirussonello.com or nytimes.com/by/giovanni-russonello. Follow him on Twitter at @giorussonello.

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  1. Thanks for the posting, checked him out because of it. Just bought three albums. Beautiful.

    Chad Boulanger /
  2. I have most of his albums. Just received his new one. Got to see him twice in Jacksonville, FL. We are Jazz people and love his style of music.

    Thanks Trombone

    David Shillingburg /

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