Trombone Shorty returns with his first album in five years and the follow-up to his Blue Note debut, Parking Lot Symphony. Capturing the energy of his live shows, the album combines classic New Orleans sounds(funk, gospel, street rhythms, Mardi Gras Indian chants, and second lines) with modern lyrics, melody and beats to create something fresh and unique, part Jimi Hendrix, part James Brown, and all New Orleans.

Though many standard musicological reference works document the use of the trombone from its beginning to the middle of the seventeenth century, and then from Mozart to the present, few deal with the intervening years. This book reproduces the texts from two dozen treatises, dictionaries, and encyclopedias, along with English translations, published between 1697 and 1811. It provides an overview of the use of the trombone during that time in America...