Ruby Braff


Reuben "Ruby" Braff was an American jazz trumpeter and cornetist. Jack Teagarden was once asked about him on the Garry Moore TV show and described Ruby as "the Ivy League Louis Armstrong".
Braff was born in Boston, Massachusetts. 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 resided in Harwich, Massachusetts and died on February 9, 2003, in Chatham, Massachusetts. He also spent a good part of his life living in the Riverdale section of The Bronx, New York.

Discography

As leader/co-leader

With Larry Adler
With Louis Armstrong
With Tony Bennett
;With Buck Clayton
With Scott Hamilton and Dave McKenna
With Woody Herman
With Milt Hinton
With Dick Hyman
With Pee Wee Russell
With Ralph Sutton
With George Wein