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He had a deep commitment to education and was a founding instructor at the ambitious but short-lived Advanced School of Contemporary Music in Toronto, along with pianist Oscar Peterson and bassist Ray Brown

“A CONJOINING OF ANCIENT SONG”, a film, produced by Willie Ruff and Yale University, will be screened at Belle Mont Mansion on Saturday, February 17, at 2pm. The documentary tells

Morning Blend host Dorrie Nutt spoke with musician Willie Ruff in an hour long interview back in 2019—we're airing this in his memory. He passed away on Dec 24 2023 at the age of 92.

A master of the French horn, a rarity in jazz, he toured the world with the pianist Dwike Mitchell and taught music at Yale.

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Willie Ruff, an influential and erudite jazz musician and scholar who connected the Yale and New Haven communities to "America's musical art form," died on Dec. 24 in Killen, Alabama. He was 92.

Today, Craft Recordings announces its exclusive line-up of titles for RSD Black Friday, taking place on November 24 at participating independent retailers. This year’s releases include seven limited-edition pressings from a wide range of genres and eras, encompassing everything from midcentury jazz to post-millennium punk.

FLORENCE – The Music Preservation Society, Inc. Board of Directors recently announced that a design by Sheffield resident, Garrett Rittenberry, is the winner of this year’s W.C. Handy Music Festival

I am going to be 64 years old this year. Well now, that’s too much information. But that means that my brother is going to be 66. We were together

On April 2, the Ellington Jazz Series, led by Artistic Director Thomas C. Duffy, will present a rare performance of Mingus’ jazz-orchestra epic Epitaph. Scored for double big band, Mingus’ magnum opus defies categorization while reflecting the composer’s extraordinary artistic vision and offering the world an experience of the man himself and the ideas that animated him.