Editing Ruby Braff (section)

{{Short description|American jazz trumpeter and cornetist}}
{{Infobox musical artist 
| name                = Ruby Braff
| image               = 
| caption             = 
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| background          = non_vocal_instrumentalist
| birth_name          = Reuben Braff
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| birth_date          = {{Birth date|1927|3|16}}
| death_date          = {{death date and age|2003|2|9|1927|3|16}}
| origin              = [[Boston, Massachusetts]], U.S.
| death_place         = [[Chatham, Massachusetts]], U.S.
| instrument          = [[Cornet]]<br />[[Trumpet]]
| genre               = [[Swing music|Swing]]<br />[[Dixieland]]<br />[[Mainstream jazz]]
| label               = [[Arbors Records|Arbors]]
| past_member_of      = [[Edmond Hall]]
}}

'''Reuben''' "'''Ruby'''" '''Braff''' (March 16, 1927<ref name="LarkinJazz">{{cite book|title=[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music|The Guinness Who's Who of Jazz]]|editor=[[Colin Larkin (writer)|Colin Larkin]]|publisher=[[Guinness Publishing]]|date=1992|edition=First|isbn=0-85112-580-8|page=57/8}}</ref> &ndash; February 9, 2003)<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.theguardian.com/news/2003/feb/12/guardianobituaries.jazz|title=Obituary: Ruby Braff|date=12 February 2003|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|access-date=July 25, 2021}}</ref> was an American [[jazz]] trumpeter and [[cornetist]]. [[Jack Teagarden]] was once asked about him on the [[Garry Moore]] television show and described Ruby as "the [[Ivy League]] [[Louis Armstrong]]".

Braff, who was of Jewish heritage, was born in [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]], United States.<ref name="LarkinJazz"/> 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.<ref name="LarkinJazz"/>

He resided in [[Harwich, Massachusetts]] and died of complications from emphysema, heart failure, and [[glaucoma]] on February 9, 2003, in [[Chatham, Massachusetts]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/ruby-braff-36252.html|title=Ruby Braff|date=11 February 2003|newspaper=[[The Independent]]|access-date=July 25, 2021}}</ref> He had spent a good part of his life living in the [[Riverdale, Bronx|Riverdale]] section of [[The Bronx]], New York City.{{citation needed|date=November 2022}}