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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 and resided in Harwich, Massachusetts. He also spent a good part of his life living in the Riverdale section of The Bronx, New York.
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- Where's Freddie?
- For Now
- I Just Couldn't Take It, Baby
- Little Man, You've Had a Busy Day
- The Song Is Ended
- Smart Alex Blues
- My Walkin' Stick
- Ruby Got Rhythm
- Foolin' Myself
- When My Sugar Walks Down the Street
- Sailboat in the Moonlight
- My Romance
- What Is There to Say
- I Married an Angel
- Skylark
- Blues for Ruby
- Blue Moon
- Love for Sale
- In a Mountain Greenery
- Thou Swell
- Where or When
- Younger Than Springtime
- Honeybun
- There Is Nothing Like a Dame
- Happy Talk
- Dites-Moi
- The Nearly Was Mine
- A Wonderful Guy
- Some Enchanted Evening
- Cockeyed Optimist
