WESTFIELD — Excuse the over-the-top music pun, but Jay Scherpa is not one to toot his own horn. “He’s very humble and modest. And very self-motivated,” said Zachary Scherpa, the father of ...

Trombone Champ takes a similar tack but for the gorgeous wind instrument, ... In this writer’s humble opinion, there is no song that cannot be improved with terrible trombone playing.

Trombone Shorty plays at the 2017 Essence Festival in New Orleans. (Bennett Raglin/Getty Images) ... Andrews is as low-key and affably humble offstage as he is energized and dynamic onstage.

Trombone Shorty. Big Easy Living. BY Michael J. Warren Published Jan 21, 2014. ... Despite that, a humble Trombone Shorty and his band Orleans Avenue hit the stage on January 16 at Toronto's Phoenix.