People: Musician replaces boy’s stolen trombone
A 14-year-old boy whose trombone was stolen at gunpoint has a new one thanks to musician Troy Andrews, much better known as Trombone Shorty. Bill Taylor, executive director of the Trombone Shorty Foundation, said he delivered the instrument, which is engraved with the name “Trombone Shorty,” on Saturday.
“He was like speechless. And I got Troy on the phone. As soon as I gave him the horn I had Shorty on the line and gave him the phone,” Taylor said.
The foundation didn’t release the boy’s name. The mother accepted the offer of the new trombone after receiving assurances that the boy’s name wouldn’t be released, because she feared for his safety.
He was walking home from band practice Thursday night in the middle-class neighborhood around his New Orleans school when a gunman jumped from a van and grabbed his shirt, demanding his trombone, police said. The boy yanked himself away and ran, but dropped the instrument when he heard gunshots.
The trombone was delivered before Andrews went on stage Saturday at the Newport Jazz Festival, Taylor said.
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