Editing Ruby Braff

{{Short description|American jazz trumpeter and cornetist}}
{{Infobox musical artist 
| name                = Ruby Braff
| image               = 
| caption             = 
| image_size          = 
| background          = non_vocal_instrumentalist
| birth_name          = Reuben Braff
| alias               = 
| 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}}

==Discography==
===As leader/co-leader===
* ''[[Buck Meets Ruby]]'' ([[Vanguard Records|Vanguard]], 1954) with [[Buck Clayton]]
* ''Jazz at Storyville, Vol. 1 and 2'' ([[Savoy Records|Savoy]], 1955) with [[Pee Wee Russell]]
* ''Ruby Braff Swings'' (Bethlehem, 1955)
* ''Holiday in Braff'' (Bethlehem, 1955)
* ''Ball at Bethlehem with Braff'' ([[Bethlehem Records|Bethlehem]], 1955)
* ''Braff!!'' ([[Epic Records|Epic]], 1956)
* ''Ruby Braff featuring Dave McKenna'' ([[ABC-Paramount]], 1956)
* ''Hi-Fi Salute to Bunny''  ([[RCA Victor]], 1957)
* ''[[The Ruby Braff Octet with Pee Wee Russell & Bobby Henderson at Newport]]'' ([[Verve Records|Verve]], 1957)
* ''Ruby Braff Goes 'Girl Crazy''' ([[Warner Bros. Records]], 1958)
* ''Easy Now'' (RCA, 1959)
* ''You're Getting To Be A Habit With Me'' (Stere-O-Craft, 1959)
* ''Blowing Around The World'' ([[United Artists Records|United Artists]], 1959)
* ''The Ruby Braff Marshall Brown Sextet'' ([[United Artists Records|United Artists]], 1961)
* ''Very Sinatra'' (Finesse, 1982)
* ''Live at the Regattabar'' ([[Arbors Records|Arbors]], 1993)
* ''Ruby Braff Remembers [[Louis Armstrong]]: Being with You'' (Arbors, 1997)
* ''You Can Depend on Me'' (Arbors, 1998)
* ''Born to Play'' (Arbors, 1999)
* ''Ruby Braff and Strings: In the Wee, Small Hours in London and New York'' (Arbors, 2000)
* ''The Cape Godfather'' (Arbors, 2000)
* ''Music for the Still of the Night'' (Arbors, 2001)
* ''I Hear Music'' (Arbors, 2002)
* ''Relaxing at the Penthouse with the [[John Pizzarelli]] Trio'' (Victoria, 2002)
* ''Variety Is the Spice of Braff'' (Arbors, 2002)
* ''Watch What Happens'' (Arbors, 2003)
* ''You Brought a New Kind of Love'' (Arbors, 2005)
* ''Controlled Nonchalance' at the Regattabar, Vol. 2'' (Arbors, 2006)
* Ruby Braff And The Flying Pizzarellis: ''C'est Magnifique!'' (Arbors, 2007)
* ''Little Things - Live In Dublin 1976'' ([[Nagel-Heyer Records]], 2007)
* ''For the Last Time - Ruby Braff's Historic Final Performance With Scott Hamilton'' (Arbors, 2008)
* ''Our Love is Here to Stay'' (Arbors, 2010)

=== With [[George Barnes (musician)|George Barnes]]===
* ''The Ruby Braff-George Barnes Quartet'' ([[Chiaroscuro Records|Chiaroscuro]], 1974)
* ''The Ruby Braff-George Barnes Quartet Salutes Rodgers and Hart'' ([[Concord Jazz]], 1974)
* ''The Ruby Braff-George Barnes Quartet – Live at the New School'' (Chiaroscuro, 1974)
* ''The Ruby Braff-George Barnes Quartet Plays Gershwin'' (Concord Jazz, 1974)
* ''The Ruby Braff-George Barnes Quartet – To Fred Astaire with Love'' (RCA, 1975)

=== With [[Ellis Larkins]]===
* ''2 Part Inventions in Jazz, Vol. 2'', (Vanguard, 1955)
* ''The Grand Reunion'' (Chiaroscuro, 1972)
* ''Ruby Braff & Ellis Larkins: The Complete Duets'' (Definitive Classics, 2006)
* ''Ruby Braff and Ellis Larkins: Calling Berlin, Vols. 1 & 2'' (Arbors)

===As sideman===
'''With [[Larry Adler]]'''
*''Larry Adler Again!'' ([[Audio Fidelity Records|Audio Fidelity]], 1959)
'''With [[Louis Armstrong]]'''
*''[[Louis Armstrong and His Friends]]'' (Flying Dutchman/Amsterdam, 1970)
'''With [[Tony Bennett]]'''
*''Tony Bennett Sings 10 Rodgers & Hart Songs'' (Improv, 1976)
*''Tony Bennett Sings More Great Rodgers & Hart'' (Improv, 1977)
*''Tony Bennett Sings the Rodgers & Hart Songbook'' (Concord, 2005; reissue of Improv recordings, plus unreleased takes)
;With [[Buck Clayton]]
*''[[Jumpin' at the Woodside (album)|Jumpin' at the Woodside]]'' (Columbia, 1955)
*''[[All the Cats Join In]]'' (Columbia 1956)
'''With [[Scott Hamilton (musician)|Scott Hamilton]]''' and '''[[Dave McKenna]]'''
*''Controlled Nonchalance at the Regattabar, Volume 1'' (Arbors)
*''Controlled Nonchalance, Volume 2'' (Arbors)
'''With [[Woody Herman]]'''
*''It Had To Be Us'' (Chiaroscuro 1998)
'''With [[Milt Hinton]]'''
*''The Judge at His Best'' (Chiaroscuro, 2001)
'''With [[Dick Hyman]]'''
*''America, The Beautiful'' (Arbors)
*''Ruby Braff and Dick Hyman Play Nice Tunes'' (Arbors)
*''Manhattan Jazz'' ([[MusicMasters Records|MusicMasters]])
*''Music from My Fair Lady'' (Concord)
*''Music from South Pacific'' (Concord)
'''With [[Pee Wee Russell]]'''
*''The Individualism of Pee Wee Russell'' (1952)
*''A Portrait of Pee Wee'' (1958)
'''With [[Ralph Sutton]]'''
*''R & R'' (Chiaroscuro, 2002)
*''Remembered'' (Arbors DVD)
'''With [[George Wein]]'''
*''Wein, Women and Song and More, George Wein Plays and Sings'' (Arbors)
*''[[George Wein & the Newport All-Stars]]'' (Impulse!, 1962)
*''George Wein's Newport All-Stars'' (Atlantic, 1969)

==See also==
*[[Izzy Ort's Bar & Grille]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* [http://www.jazzreview.com/index.php/resources/artist-biographies/item/13690 Jazz Review biography]
* {{AllMusic | id= ruby-braff-mn0000357057 | label= Ruby Braff}}
* {{discogs artist|296955-Ruby-Braff|Ruby Braff}}

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