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Ruby Braff - As Time Goes By
From Album: "Ruby Braff ~ As Time Goes By...",
Recorded live at University College School at Hampstead, London, England on
May 16th, 1991.
Personnel: Ruby Braff (cornet); Howard Alden (guitar); Frank Tate (bass).
Reuben "Ruby" Braff (March 16, 1927 – February 9, 2003) was an American jazz trumpeter and cornetist.
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 1940's. 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.
