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Troy Andrews earned his nickname at a jazz funeral. Only four years old at the time, Andrews was parading with a trombone almost twice his size — his older brother spotted him and shouted “Trombone Shorty!” A couple feet taller and twenty years older, Shorty still hasn’t outgrown that exclamation, or its roots. A bona […]

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