Booker T. Nabs Best Pop Instrumental GRAMMY

Booker T. won the award for Best Pop Instrumental Album at the 52nd Annual GRAMMY Awards in Los Angeles earlier today.

(Photo: REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson)

Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue Hit Both Coasts This Winter

Following a Mardi Gras throwdown at Tipitina’s in New Orleans on February 14th (with Rebirth Brass Band and special guests to be announced), Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue will tour both the East and West Coasts in February and March.

TS&OA hit the East Coast in February 2010 for a 12-date headlining run through nine States, including a February 19th date at the Highline Ballroom in NYC and ending with an appearance on NPR's Mountain Stage.

The band will then tackle Colorado and the West Coast in March 2010 on a co-headlining tour with The New Mastersounds. Salvador Santana, Carlos's son, opens that run of dates.

The tour with the UK-based New Mastersounds kicks off a Mile-High in the Rockies at Denver's Ogden Theater March 6 and slides down to sea-level in San Diego on March 10, where the band was last seen blowing away the Street Scene festival this past summer. After a show in L.A. March 11, Shorty visits Santa Cruz March 12 and San Francisco on March 13, returning to the cities of three sold out New Year’s run shows at the end of 2009. Dates in Portland and Seattle round out the seven-date run. Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue will also headline Colorado dates in Steamboat Springs March 7th and Breckenridge on March 8th without the New Mastersounds or Salvador.

Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue have been busy recording their upcoming record with Ben Ellman from Galactic producing. The record is scheduled for an April 2010 release.

Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews is also a guest on Buckwheat Zydeco’s GRAMMY-nominated Lay Your Burden Down, is heard in the opening song of Disney's The Princess & The Frog and performs on forthcoming albums from Eric Clapton, Galactic, and Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars.

Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue Winter 2010 US Tour Dates:

1/21/2010--Athens, GA @ The Melting Point
1/22/2010--Atlanta, GA @ Smith's Olde Bar++
1/23/2010 --Atlanta, GA @ Smith's Olde Bar++

2/6/2010--Alexandria, LA @ (Private Event)
2/14/2010--New Orleans, LA @ Tipitina's
2/16/2010--Philadelphia, PA @ World Cafe Live
2/17/2010--Northampton, MA @ The Iron Horse
2/18/2010--Cambridge, MA @ Regattabar
2/19/2010--New York, NY @ Highline Ballroom
2/20/2010--New Haven, CT @ Yale University - The Commons
2/21/2010--Bondville, VT @ Red Fox Inn
2/23/2010--Richmond, VA @ Jazz Composers Alliance
2/24/2010-- Baltimore, MD @ The Eight by Ten
2/25/2010--Falls Church, VA @ The State Theatre
2/26/2010--Wilmington, DE @ Big Chief's
2/27/2010--Pittsburgh, PA @ The Rex Theater
2/28/2010--Charleston, WV @ Mountain Stage

3/6/10--Denver, CO @ Ogden Theatre***
3/7/10--Steamboat Springs, CO @ Ghostranch Saloon
3/8/10--Breckenridge, CO @ three20south
3/10/10--Solana Beach, CA @ Belly Up***
3/11/10--Los Angeles, CA @ El Rey Theatre***
3/12/10--Santa Cruz, CA @ The Catalyst***
3/13/10--San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore***
3/14/10--Sacramento, CA @ Venue TBD
3/16/10--Sisters, OR @ Sisters HS Auditorium
3/17/10--Portland, OR @ Berbati's Pan***
3/18/10--Seattle, WA @ Neumos***

++ w/ The Dirty Dozen Brass Band
*** w/ The New Mastersounds & Salvador Santana

For more information, please visit http://www.tromboneshorty.com.

(Photo: Trombone Shorty at The Independent, December 31, 2009. Photo © 2009 Anna Hiatt, http://www.annahiatt.com)