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Ruby Braff on Piano Jazz

Ruby Braff (with Howard Alden, left) at Pizza Express Jazz Club, London (1996)
Berit Bolt/www.howardalden.com

  Trumpeter and cornetist Ruby Braff (1927– 2003) drew his style from the influences of Louis Armstrong and Bix Beiderbecke. Throughout the 1950s, he was in demand in New York as a Dixieland and swing player, and he went on to form a quartet with guitarist George Barnes and other small-group settings later in his career. On this 1992 Piano Jazz, Braff joins McPartland for duets of “Thou Swell” and “Blue and Sentimental.”

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