Trombone Shorty Parking Lot Symphony

Parking Lot Symphony is Trombone Shorty's 2017 debut for Blue Note Records. The album is a 12-track tour de force produced by Chris Seefried (Fitz and the Tantrums, Andra Day) featuring 10 new original songs along with covers of Allen Toussaint ("Here Come The Girls") and The Meters ("It Ain't No Use"). True to its title, the 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 Shorty says, "Music brings unity."