Artist
Ruby Braff
Popular
Albums
A Ruby Braff Omnibus (2013 Remaster)
2026 · Album
Inside & Out
2026 · Album
Ball at Bethlehem (Remastered 2013)
2026 · Album
Holiday In Braff (Remastered 2013)
2026 · Album
Ruby Braff Swings (Remastered 2013)
2026 · Album
Ruby's Rubies: The Ruby Braff Retrospective
2023 · Album
Easy Now
2023 · Album
Hi-Fi Salute to Bunny
2023 · Album
Golden Collection of Ruby Braff
2018 · Album
Lonesome Road
2017 · Album
Ruby Braff
2016 · Album
You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me
2016 · Album
Fireworks
2016 · Album
The Complete Bethlehem Recordings (Bonus Track Version)
2016 · Album
Deluxe Series Volume 5 (Bethlehem Collection): A Ruby Braff Omnibus
2016 · Album
Jazz Legends
2015 · Album
Ruby Braff featuring Dave McKenna
2015 · Album
Ruby Braff
2015 · Album
Blowing Around the World
2015 · Album
Swing That Music
2014 · Album
Hi-Fi Salute to Bunny
2014 · Album
Flowers For A Lady
2014 · Album
Lazy
2014 · Album
Braff!: The Complete Session + Bonus Tracks
2014 · Album
Singles & EPs
Compilations
Appears on
Jazz at Storyville Vol. 2
Pee Wee Russell
Jazz at Storyville, Vol. 2
Pee Wee Russell
Thigamagig (Remastered)
Mel Powell
Buck Meets Ruby (Remastered)
Buck Clayton
Jazz at Storyville, Vol. 1
Pee Wee Russell
Complete Recordings
Hank Jones
Manhattan Jazz
Dick Hyman
It Had To Be Us
Woody Herman
Ralph Sutton Quartet Featuring Ruby Braff Vol. 3
Ralph Sutton
Vol. 1
Ralph Sutton Quartet
Fats Waller's Heavenly Jive
Dick Hyman
About
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 Garry Moore television show and described Ruby as "the Ivy League Louis Armstrong".
Braff, who was of Jewish heritage, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. 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 resided in Harwich, Massachusetts and died of complications from emphysema, heart failure, and glaucoma on February 9, 2003, in Chatham, Massachusetts. He had spent a good part of his life living in the Riverdale section of The Bronx, New York City.