Troy Andrews' Trombone Shorty: Soulful New Orleans Jazz

Roseann: This book is great for preteens and young teens who are interested in music. The illustrations make you feel like you're at Mardi Gras in New Orleans. It's empowering and heart warming! Based on a real person, Trombone Shorty, who had the talent and interest to learn how to play music and went on to perform with the likes of stars like Bo Diddley!

United States on Mar 18, 2023

Thuy Nguyen: Full of culture, nostalgia, love, and warmth! Looking forward to more books from this author/musician!!
Thank you for introducing so many people to the the NOLA culture and preserving it!!

United States on Mar 05, 2023

Kevin Ogren: I love this book!! I use it for my elementary music classes. I did a unit in Troy Andrews for Black History month. I also purchased his other book 5 O’clock Band - another great book!

Canada on Sep 06, 2020

Client d'Amazon: Fan de jazz et de Trombone Shorty, un beau livre sur son histoire et celle de sa ville la Nouvelle Orléans. Belles illustrations et parcours intéressant d'un enfant surdoué. Une belle histoire à faire découvrir aux enfants à travers la ville.
Un beau cadeau à faire ou à se faire ce qui était mon cas.

France on Mar 26, 2019

JMIce: I had a student pick this book out to share with me during a tutoring session. I was floored. The student told me that the librarian in his school had read it to him and he wanted to read it to me.

As he started to read, I immediately noticed that he didn't understand what tone and intonation by the text that was written. Some words were in this awesome bold black font. Other words were highlighted with quotation marks and exclamation marks. As we continued to read this amazing true story, I was able to help my student learn about why authors write the way they do and why they choose certain text. The illustrations have such an honest realism to match the story and I got the opportunity to talk to my student about different cultures found in parts of cities, in the cities themselves, and states in our country.

I was so enthusiastic about the book, I immediately bought a copy for my dad who loves the culture of Treme and New Orleans. I didn't tell him what I was sending but when he got it, not only did who know who Trombone Shorty was but owned one of his albums.

This story resonated with an 8 year old Filipino boy and 68 year old Caucasian man. How amazing is...

United States on Jul 23, 2018

J: My daughter who is seven got this book for Christmas. She had read it before but requested it last night when we were reading together as a family with her sister and dad. We all loved it. What a great true story and about someone with whom I wasn't familiar. The lessons about working hard to pursue a goal are FABULOUS as is the positive role model the older brother was. I was super impressed. Not surprised this book won awards! The illustrations are clever and creative and the "Where Y'at?" phrase really caught my kids' attention. Their favorite part was the message by Trombone Shorty himself at the end of the book with pictures from his past. Super cool! I am especially pleased to have my kids read, learn about, and be excited by a character/real person who doesn't look like them and grew up in a neighborhood that's totally different from their environment.

United States on Jan 11, 2017

JLS: “Trombone Shorty” is a 2016 Caldacott Honor book and a winner of the Coretta Scott King award. In this auto-biography, the author, Troy Andrews, tells his story of how he came to be the famous Trombone Shorty. This book truly belongs in the hands of all children as it is a beautiful story of how a young boy who comes from meager means, discovers not only his love of music but also a trombone that would change his life.
The big idea of this story is to show that when you hold on to what you love at all costs, great things can happen. This story is steeped in rich New Orleans culture as Troy Andrews begins his story with a traditional New Orleans, ‘hello’ by saying ‘where Y’at?’ on the first page and throughout the entire story. He credits his city and his older brother with igniting his passion for music. In the beginning of the story, Andrews says that he and his friends would watch his older brother’s jazz band and they would pretend to play along. One day, at only six years of age, Troy found a trombone in severe disrepair, but he that did not stop him from trying to fix it and play it. The trombone was bigger than he was which is how he got the nickname...

United States on Apr 10, 2016