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Kermit Ruffins: Swingin' and Smilin'
by Tod Smith
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 ...
Ottawa Jazz Festival 2009: Days 1-3, June 25-27, 2009
by John Kelman
Days 1-3 | Days 4-6 John Stetch TV Trio / Dave Douglas Brass Ecstasy / Roberta Gambarini Toshiko Akiyoshi Trio / Jimmy Cobb's So What Band; S.M.V. The Botos Brother / Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue / Al GreenTD Canada Trust Ottawa International Jazz Festival Ottawa, Ontario, Canada ...
Kermit Ruffins: Shake and Bake
By: Jim Welte There's only one thing that New Orleans jazz man Kermit Ruffins handles better than a trumpet - a barbecue. And if that barbecue happens to have a smoker with a handle shaped like a trumpet? Fuhgeddaboutit. Ruffins' barbecue, so big that it's attached to a hitch hooked onto the back of his pickup ...
Basin Street Records Releases Kermit Ruffins' "Livin' a Treme Life"
Catch Kermit at the 2009 NOLA Heritage & Jazz Festival and Lincoln Center's Mid Summer Night Swing! Kermit is currently acting in and consulting for new HBO pilot Treme, created by David Simon (The Wire). “An unabashed entertainer who plays trumpet with a bright, silvery tone." --New York Times Make no mistake, everything about Kermit Ruffins ...
40th New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival Preview
by Tod Smith
Seven days, two weekends, forty years. No matter how you measure it, the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival Presented by Shell is a musical and cultural rite of spring for hundreds of thousands of visitors each year. From its humble beginnings at Congo Square, to this the 40th anniversary, Jazz Fest always provides enough musical ...
Live at Vaughan's
Label: Basin Street Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Introduction; Skokiaan; World on a String; Drop Me Off In New Orleans; Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?; Palm Court Strut; Treme' Second Line; Can't Take My Baby Nowhere; Hide the Reefer; If You Want Me To Stay; Be Thankful For What You Got; Talking Loud and Saying Nothing; O-o-h Child.
Kermit Ruffins: Live at Vaughan's
by Henry Smith
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 ...
Kermit Ruffins
Label: Putumayo World Music
Released: 2005
Track listing: Ain't Misbehavin'; Monday Night in New Orleans; On the Sunny Side of the Street; After You've Gone; Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams; Goodnight; Leshianne; When My Dream Boat Comes Home; Kermit's Second Line; Bye and Bye; Do the Fat Tuesday.
Mark Samuels: Basin Street In and Out of New Orleans
by AAJ Staff
By Mark SamuelsWhen I was invited to have one of our many artists write for All About Jazz's Megaphone column, I envisioned sitting down on the phone with one of them and typing as they talked. What has happened in the two or three weeks since has been amazing and has kept us from ...
