Does he need some more time to get it down? “No, I know the shape already,” he says. The snatch of piano, he explains, was something that came to him only a minute earlier and he just needed to hear it out loud. He is lean and muscular and, even at rest, maintains something of the pugilist’s bearing he assumes when playing his horn onstage. When the tones subside, Andrews answers the door apologetically, wearing a navy blue Nike tracksuit and a white T-shirt. Big, lush, 10-fingered piano chords swell out under the heavy metal door and onto the sidewalk, a sonic cloud you can almost picture following Andrews, better known as Trombone Shorty since he was a four-year-old prodigy lugging his oversize namesake instrument through the streets of the Crescent City. Charles Avenue in New Orleans’s Lower Garden District. Just as you half-imagined there would be, there’s music seeping from the entryway to Troy Andrews’s Buckjump Studio, just off St.
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