Search - Artist/Band: Ruby Braff

• Name: Ruby Braff
• Birthday: 03/16/1927
• Birth Place: Boston, MA
• Died: 02/09/2003
• Decades Active: 1940,1950,1960,1970,1980,1990,2000
• Genre: Jazz
• Styles: Mainstream Jazz, Swing, New Orleans Jazz, Jazz Instrument, New Orleans Jazz Revival, Standards, Trumpet Jazz
• Moods: Amiable/Good-Natured, Freewheeling, Joyous, Organic, Romantic, Sentimental, Laid-Back/Mellow, Light, Pastoral, Refined/Mannered, Reserved, Reverent, Intimate, Sophisticated, Sweet, Bright, Playful

Title	Release
C'est Magnifique! W	10/09/2007
Recovered Treasures W	11/21/2006
Complete Recordings Featuring Jim Hall W	11/20/2006
Complete Original Quartet/Quintet Sessions W	11/15/2006
Ruby Braff & Ellis Larkins: The Complete Duets W	06/20/2006
You Brought a New Kind of Love W	02/01/2005
Watch What Happens... WA	01/07/2003
Ad Lib Blues	12/04/2002
Variety Is the Spice of Braff	09/03/2002
I Hear Music	03/05/2002
I'm Shooting High	01/01/2002
Music for the Still of the Night WA	05/01/2001
Ruby Braff Omnibus	02/21/2001
Cape Codfather	08/15/2000
Duets, Vol. 2 WA	02/22/2000
Ruby Braff and Strings	2000
Duets, Vol. 1 WA	10/26/1999
Canadian Sessions	10/18/1999
Linger Awhile	09/28/1999
Born to Play	04/06/1999
It Had to Be Us	01/26/1999
You Can Depend on Me	09/01/1998
The Concord Jazz Heritage Series WA	08/25/1998
Ruby Braff Remembers Louis Armstrong: Being With You	09/23/1997
Inside & Out WA	02/27/1996
Calling Berlin, Vol. 2	1996
Calling Berlin, Vol. 1 WA	10/31/1995
Play Nice Tunes	07/02/1994
Cornet Chop Suey	1994
Ruby Braff & His New England Songhounds, Vol. 2 WA	04/30/1991
Ruby Braff & His New England Songhounds, Vol. 1 WA	04/29/1991
Music from South Pacific	04/24/1991
Music From My Fair Lady WA	07/1989
Bravura Eloquence WA	06/1988
Me, Myself & I	06/1988
A First WA	02/1985
A Sailboat in the Moonlight WA	02/1985
Mr. Braff to You: The Ruby Braff Quintet WA	12/15/1983
Fireworks	1983
Pipe Organ Recital Plus One	04/24/1982
Very Sinatra	12/12/1981
Ruby and Woody	1980
R&R	10/1979
Them There Eyes	1976
To Fred Astaire with Love	1975
Plays Rodgers & Hart WA	10/1974
Ruby Braff & the George Barnes Quartet Play Gershwin WA	07/26/1974
The Grand Reunion	10/14/1972
Swing That Music	10/20/1969
Hear Me Talkin'	11/08/1967
Ruby Braff with Buddy Tate & the Newport All Stars	10/28/1967
You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me WA	1959
Ruby Braff Goes Girl Crazy	12/04/1958
This Is My Lucky Day	1958
Hi Fi Salute to Bunny	1957
Braff! WA	1956
Two by Two: Ruby and Ellis Play Rodgers and Hart WA	10/14/1955
Little Big Horn	1955
The Best of Braff WA	1955
Hustlin' and Bustlin' WA	1954

One of the great swing/dixieland cornetists, Ruby Braff went through long periods of his career unable to find work because his music was considered out-of-fashion, but his fortunes improved by the 1970s. A very expressive player who in later years liked to build his solos up to a low note, Braff's playing was instantly recognizable within seconds.

Braff mostly worked around Boston in the late '40s. He teamed up with Pee Wee Russell when the clarinetist was making a comeback (they recorded live for Savoy), and after moving to New York in 1953, he fit easily into a variety of dixieland and mainstream settings. Braff recorded for Vanguard as a leader, and with Vic Dickenson, Buck Clayton, and Urbie Green. He was one of the stars of Buck Clayton's Columbia jam sessions, and in the mid-'50s worked with Benny Goodman. But, despite good reviews and occasional recordings, work was hard for Braff to come by at times. In the 1960s, he was able to get jobs by being with George Wein's Newport All-Stars and at jazz festivals, but it was not until the cornetist formed a quartet with guitarist George Barnes, in 1973, that he became more secure. Afterward, Braff was heard in many small-group settings, including duets with Dick Hyman and Ellis Larkins (he had first met up with the latter in the 1950s), quintets with Scott Hamilton, and matching wits with Howard Alden. He remained one of the greats of mainstream jazz until his death in 2003. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide