Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews is the kind of player that's taken Duke Ellington's philosophy of genres truly to heart—the outlook that "there are two kinds of music, good music and the other kind." ...

This is a reissue of Johnson's rare late-1950s trombone classic, from a time when he was the definition of mastery of the instrument in jazz. The lingua franca, of course, was bop, and he had a ...