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AVID Jazz here presents three classic Ruby Braff albums plus, including original LP liner notes on a finely re-mastered and low priced double CD. Hi Fi Salute To Bunny, Easy Now, Youre Getting To Be A Habit To Me and the plus the previously unavailable Jimmy Rushing And The Newport All-Stars recorded in 1959. Our latest release in the AVID Jazz series features a man who once said that he attended the University of Louis Armstrong from which you never graduate. In fact our host, Ruby Braff was often irritated as a result of recording one of our featured albums, as he was forever after cited as a Berigan disciple, whereas our earlier quote firmly places him in the Armstrong camp! Ruby Braff was born in Boston in 1927 and did indeed learn his music by listening to Louis Armstrong but along with many other great musicians like Lester Young, Count Basie, Billie Holiday, Bing Crosby and Bessie Smith, with whom he had in common being discovered by Columbias John Hammond! On the Newport sessions liner notes Ruby is described as a friendly, clean cut little guy with a great sense of humour and a powerful love for jazz
..His is a traditional style trumpet played in a modern style
he has the tone, warmth and heart
even the majesty of an Armstrong. Settle back and listen while Ruby is joined by among others Roy Eldridge, Benny Morton, Pee Wee Russell, Mundell Lowe, Hank Jones, Vic Dickinson, Bob Wilber and Jimmy Rushing and we think you may well agree!. All three albums plus have been digitally re-mastered for probably the finest sound quality ever!
CD1 1-8: Hi-Fi Salute To Bunny 1. Keep Smiling At Trouble 2. Its Been So Long 3. Im Coming Virginia 4. I Cant Get Started 5. Marie 6. I Got It Bad And That Aint Good 7. Downhearted Blues 8. Somebody Else Is Taking My Place 9-17: Easy Now 9. For Now 10. When My Sugar Walks Down The Street 11. I Just Couldnt Take It, Baby 12. My Walking Stick 13. Little Man, Youve Had A Busy Day 14. Give My Regards To Broadway 15. Willow Weep For Me 16. This Is My Lucky Day 17. Someday Youll Be Sorry
CD2 1-2: Easy Now 1. Yesterdays 2. The Song Is Ended But The Melody Lingers On 3-12: Youre Getting To Be A Habit With Me 3. Someday Sweetheart 4. When Your Lover Has Gone 5. Your Getting To Be A Habit With Me 6. Lets Do It 7. Swing That Music 8. Youd Be So Nice To Come Home To 9. Taking A Chance On Love 10. Cabin In The Pines 11. Lazy 12. If Dreams Come True 13. It Dont Mean A Thing (If It Aint Got That Swing) from At Newport 14. These Foolish Things (Remind Me Of You) from At Newport 15. Oh, Lady Be Good from At Newport 16. Im Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter from Jimmy Rushing And The Newport All-Stars (Previously Unissued) 17. Goin To Chicago from Jimmy Rushing And The Newport All-Stars (Previously Unissued) 18. St. Louis Blues from Jimmy Rushing And The Newport All-Stars (Previously Unissued)
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