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Willie Ruff

If you are interested at all in jazz, seek out recordings by Willie Ruff on French horn. He made several with the pianist Dwike Mitchell, as the "Mitchell-Ruff Duo". On some recordings, Ruff played bass, as well. Dwike Mitchell should be ranked as one of the greatest jazz pianists, as well. For one example, there is a great LP on the "Mainstream" label of the Mitchell-Ruff Duo with Dizzy Gillespie, live at Dartmouth College. Great stuff! Ruff was a classically trained musician of great sensitivity and style; I had the good fortune to grow up in New Haven, CT, which was his home base too, so I heard him play often when I was a teenager. He once owned a jazz club in New Haven, where I first heard Coltrane. Willie Ruff was still alive, a professor at Yale Music School, when last I knew about him. A very fine man.



Edits: 05/01/12

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