Ruby Braff
Swing music, Musical Artist
1927 – 2003
Who was Ruby Braff?
Reuben "Ruby" Braff was an American jazz trumpeter and cornetist. Jack Teagarden was once asked about him on the Gary Moore TV show and described Ruby as "The Ivy League Louis Armstrong."
Braff was born in Boston. He was renowned for working in an idiom ultimately derived from the playing of Louis Armstrong and Bix Beiderbecke.
He began playing in local clubs in the 1940s. In 1949, he was hired to play with the Edmond Hall Orchestra at the Savoy Cafe of Boston. He relocated to New York in 1953 where he was much in demand for band dates and recordings.
He died February 10, 2003, in Chatham, Massachusetts.
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- Born
- Mar 16, 1927
Boston - Also known as
- The Ruby Braff Trio
- Braff, Ruby
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Died
- Feb 9, 2003
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on July 23, 2013
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