Get Shorty

 Google “kid Trombone Shorty” and try not to smile. The top search result shows Troy Andrews, age 5, playing at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in 1991. The child is bug-eyed, with puffed cheeks, blowing into an instrument twice as long as his body. The adult Andrews is a lot taller, but the stage name stuck through his early years — a band leader at 6, on international tour at 12, a member of Lenny Kravitz’s band at 19, and most recently fronting the hard-edged funk band Orleans Avenue. His virtuosic spirit is now a force to be reckoned with. Orleans Avenue “employs hip-hop beats, rock dynamics and improvisation in a jazz tradition.” It’s love, supremely played, from one of our greatest art forms — with enough huge beats to make you dance in your seat.

 Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue: Tuesday at 8 p.m. $26.50-$36.50. Calvin Theater, 19 King St., Northampton. (413) 586-8686, iheg.com.

 — Hunter Styles