Ruby Braff
Trumpet
| Label | Issue | Format | Artist | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Affinity | AFF98 | LP | Ruby Braff | The Mighty Braff |
| Bethlehem | 11059 | single | Bud Freeman | Stop, look and listen / Newport news / Stop, look and listen / Newport news |
| - | 11078 | - | Ruby Braff & Ellis Larkins | This can't be love / Ellie / Ellie / This can't be love |
| - | 11079 | - | Ruby Braff & E. Larkins | Flowers for a lady / When you're smiling / When you're smiling / Flowers for a lady |
| - | BCP5 | LP | Ruby Braff | |
| - | BCP29 | - | Bud Freeman | Newport News |
| - | BCP82 | - | Various Artists | Bethlehem's Best, Volume 1 |
| - | BCP85 | - | - | Nothing Cheesy About This Jazz |
| - | BCP86 | - | - | We Cut This Album for Bread |
| - | BCP88 | - | - | Jazz Music for People who don't care about Money |
| - | BCP89 | - | - | We've Built a Jazz Album for You |
| - | BCP90 | - | - | Handful of Cool Jazz |
| - | BCP91 | - | - | A Lot of Yarn but a Well Knitted Jazz Album |
| - | BCP1005 | - | Ruby Braff Quartet | Ruby Braff Quartet |
| - | BCP1032 | - | Ruby Braff | Holiday in Braff |
| - | BCP1034 | - | - | Ball at Bethlehem |
| - | BCP6043 | - | - | The Best of Ruby Braff |
| - | BEP110A | |||
| - | BEP110B | - | - | - |
| - | LPDX6 | - | - | - |
| Bethlehem New Series | BCP6043 | LP | Ruby Braff | Adoration of the Melody |
| London | EZ-N19002 | EP | - | |
| - | EZ-N19011 | - | - | - |
| - | LZ-N14022 | LP | - | Holiday in Braff |
| Parlophone | GEP8783 | EP | Bud Freeman Quintet | The Jazz Scene |
| Rep | LP204 |
| Leader | Site | Date | Session | Role |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bud Freeman Quintet | New York, NY | July, 1955 | [session] | trumpet |
| Ruby Braff | - | March 17, 1955 | [session] | - |
| Ruby Braff & Ellis Larkins | Unknown Location | Unknown Date | [session] | |
| Ruby Braff Quartet | New York, NY | October, 1954 | [session] | trumpet |
| Ruby Braff Sextet | - | December 31, 1954 | [session] | - |
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 9, 2003, in Chatham, Massachusetts and resided in Harwich, Massachusetts. He also spent a good part of his life living in the Riverdale section of The Bronx, New York. Wikipedia