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Trombone Shorty's new album opens with a dirge, but if you think the beloved
bandleader, singer, songwriter and horn-blower born Troy Andrews came
here to mourn, you got it all wrong. That bit of beautiful New Orleans
soul—"Laveau Dirge No. 1," named after one of the city's most famous
voodoo queens—shows off our host's roots before Parking Lot Symphony
branches out wildly, wonderfully, funkily across 12 diverse cuts. True
to its title, this album contains multitudes of sound—from brass band
blare and deep-groove funk, to bluesy beauty and hip-hop/pop swagger—and
plenty of emotion all anchored, of course, by stellar playing and the
idea that, even in the toughest of times, as Andrews says, "Music brings
unity."

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