2012 New Orleans Jazz Fest poster of Trombone Shorty is a Gem.

The 2012 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival presented by Shell poster is an explosively colored clarion call to Crescent City music lovers and art lovers alike. Titled "Porch Song: A Portrait of Trombone Shorty," the poster depicts a fiery sunset serenade by Treme native and New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts graduate Troy Andrews by former Treme resident and NOCCA graduate Terrance Osborne.

Osborne, 37, who masterfully designed the Jazz Fest's 2007 Congo Square poster depicting Philip Frazier and the 2010 Congo Square poster of Uncle Lionel Batiste, matches Andrews' muscular, kinetic trombone style with equally energetic brush handling and dynamic intersection of shapes.

Based on website previews of the poster, Osborne's expressive 2012 composition is among the best of the long-running series. It's certainly the most exciting offering since Douglas Bourgeois' poignant post-flood portrait of Irma Thomas in 2008. Conceptually, the combination of youthful subject and artist rescues the Jazz Fest souvenir from a rather stodgy recent trend. 

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