Ruby Braff
Reuben "Ruby" Braff (March 16, 1927 – February 9, 2003) 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.
Discography
As leader
Podcasts:
Ruby Braff
ALBUMS
- Ruby Braff Goes "Girl Crazy" released: 2009
- Duets, Volume 1 released: 2000
- Ruby Braff and His New England Songhounds, Volume 2 released: 1992
- Ruby Braff and His New England Songhounds, Volume 1 released: 1991
- Music From My Fair Lady: With an Extra Bit of Luck released: 1989
- A Sailboat in the Moonlight released: 1986
- Hear Me Talkin' released: 1971
- Ruby Braff & Buddy Tate with the Newport All Stars released:
- The Concord Jazz Heritage Series released:
- A Sailboat in the Moonlight released:
- Bravura Eloquence released:
- Inside & Out released:
Ruby Braff & Buddy Tate with the Newport All Stars
- Mean to Me (take 1)
- Body and Soul
- I Surrender Dear
- My Monday Date
- Take the 'A' Train (take 2)
- Don't Blame Me
- Pan Am Blues
- These Foolish Things
- The Sheik of Araby (take 2)
- Lullaby of the Leaves
- Mean to Me (take 2)
- Take the 'A' Train (take 1)
- Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
- The Sheik of Araby (take 1)
Born: 1927-03-16
Died: 2003-02-09
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by My Fair Lady Soundtrack
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by Frederick Loewe
Ascot Gavotte
by: My Fair Lady SoundtrackLadies and Gentlemen
Every duke and earl and peer is here
Everyone who should be here is here.
What a smashing, positively dashing
Spectacle: the Ascot op'ning day.
At the gate are all the horses
Waiting for the cue to fly away.
What a gripping, absolutely ripping
Moment at the Ascot op'ning day.
Pulses rushing! Faces flushing!
Heartbeats speed up! I have never been so keyed up!
And second now They'll begin to run. Hark!
A bell is ringing, They are springing Forward Look!
It has begun...! What a frenzied moment that was!
Didn't they maintain an exhausting pace?
'Twas a thrilling, absolutely chilling Running of the
Ascot op'ning race.