Jazz Articles about Kermit Ruffins

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A Musical Odyssey - Wandering The Streets of New Orleans

by Thomas Cole
May 25, 2026

Locals will tell you there are four seasons in New Orleans: football season celebrating the New Orleans Saints (affectionately dubbed the “Ain'ts" in reference to their perennial losing ways), Mardi Gras season when the town turns upside down and business grinds to a halt no matter how urgent, the dreaded hurricane season and, finally, festival season beginning with free concerts of local music for three days every spring at French Quarter Fest, culminating with the heralded Jazz & Heritage Festival, ...

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Delfeayo Marsalis: Crescent City Jewels

by Angelo Leonardi
July 18, 2025

L'Uptown Jazz Orchestra di Delfeayo Marsalis torna col suo estroverso programma che esalta la tradizione orchestrale swing e mainstream, più il multiforme patrimonio popolare di New Orleans in una sorta di gumbo musicale dove s'incrociano jazz, funk, R&B, cajun, zydeco eccetera. Anche questo nuovo album si propone di diffondere gioia tra il pubblico con esuberanza e groove ritmico. Una sorta di manifesto programmatico per un progetto nato nel 2007, con tre dischi alle spalle, programmi educativi nelle scuole ...

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Delfeayo Marsalis Uptown Jazz Orchestra: Crescent City Jewels

by Jack Bowers
October 30, 2024

Among the four musically talented Marsalis brothers from New Orleans, Delfeayo is the one who plays trombone. He is also the one who leads the impressive Uptown Jazz Orchestra in Crescent City Jewels, an affable salute to his beloved home town. The playlist spans the gamut from blues to ballads, breezy bon bons to flat-out burners, and the UJO is brightly polished and at ease in every mood and at any tempo. The New Orleans vibe is ...

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Delfeayo Marsalis: Crescent City Jewels

by Pierre Giroux
October 9, 2024

Delfeayo Marsalis' release Crescent City Jewels is a vibrant tribute to the resilience and spirit of New Orleans, expertly captured by his Uptown Jazz Orchestra. The album reads like a journal from Marsalis, full of musical moments that celebrate life's joys. Featuring an array of veteran musicians and rising stars from the Crescent City, it is a high-energy collection that showcases the vitality of big-band jazz with an infectious New Orleans flavour. The session's blend of jazz standards, original compositions ...

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Kermit Ruffins: Swingin' and Smilin'

by Tod Smith
June 30, 2009

There's a rebirth occurring in New Orleans music, and trumpeter/vocalist Kermit Ruffins finds himself front and center. While the post-Katrina recovery has meant many things for the Crescent City, in a number of ways it's been musicians who have taken the lead in bringing the city back to its traditions. Prior to the storm, many musicians and fans of the traditional New Orleans sound spoke despairingly about the musical future for the city that many considered to be the place ...

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Kermit Ruffins: Live at Vaughan's

by Henry Smith
July 22, 2007

Trumpeter/vocalist Kermit Ruffins sure knows how to throw a party, and frankly, he should. As the founder of two great New Orleans jazz bands, the Rebirth Brass Band and the Barbeque Swingers, Ruffins has become somewhat of a New Orleans musical diplomat, embracing a vigorous touring schedule that has brought him further from home than many of the city's mainstays.

Live at Vaughan's is a different story though, as Ruffins brings his Barbeque Swingers back home for a Thursday night ...

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Kermit Ruffins Spreads the Word

by Franz A. Matzner
July 23, 2005

Demonstrating his flexibility as a performer, New Orleans trumpeter and vocalist Kermit Ruffins brought his Barbecue Swingers to the Kennedy Center's Millennium Stage for a free concert last week and found himself greeted by the distinctive blend of audience members one can only find at the Kennedy Center's Millennium stage. Featuring free concerts daily, the Millennium Stage draws a diverse mix of tour groups, aficionados, students, families, retirees, opera fans arriving early, and sundry other individuals from ...