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Willie Ruff

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Willie Ruff (born September 1, 1931) is an American jazz musician, specializing in the French horn and double bass. [1]

73 relations: A cappella, Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame, Bachelor of Music, Benny Golson, Big Bags, Billy Strayhorn, Bobby Hutcherson, Call and response (music), Clifford Coulter, Count Basie, Dizzy Gillespie, Dizzy Gillespie and the Mitchell Ruff Duo in Concert, Do It Now! (Clifford Coulter album), Documentary film, Double bass, Duke Ambassadors, Duke Ellington, Duke Ellington Fellowship Program, Duke University, Dwike Mitchell, Epic Records, Ethnomusicology, Exclusive psalmody, For Someone I Love, French horn, Gil Evans, Gil Evans & Ten, Head On (Bobby Hutcherson album), Hoochie Coochie Man (Jimmy Smith album), Jazz, Jimmy Smith (musician), John P. Hammond, KGOU, Lalo Schifrin, Leonard Cohen, Lining out, Lionel Hampton, Louis Armstrong, Master of Music, Memoir, Miles Ahead (album), Miles Davis, Miles Davis & Gil Evans: The Complete Columbia Studio Recordings, Milt Jackson, Native Americans in the United States, Ohio, Once a Thief and Other Themes, Opening act, Paul Hindemith, Porgy and Bess (Miles Davis album), ..., Precentor, Quincy Jones, Quincy Plays for Pussycats, Radio program, Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Roulette Records, Samuel Sanford, Scottish national identity, Session musician, Sheffield, Alabama, Songs of Leonard Cohen, Sonny Stitt, Sonny Stitt & the Top Brass, Sterlin Harjo, Take a Number from 1 to 10, The Washington Post, This May Be the Last Time, Traditional black gospel, United States Air Force, W. C. Handy Music Festival, Yale School of Music, Yale University. Expand index (23 more) »

A cappella

A cappella (Italian for "in the manner of the chapel") music is specifically group or solo singing without instrumental accompaniment, or a piece intended to be performed in this way.

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Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame

The Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame (AJHF) was founded in 1978, and opened a museum on September 18, 1993, with a mission "to foster, encourage, educate, and cultivate a general appreciation of the medium of jazz music as a legitimate, original and distinctive art form indigenous to America.

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Bachelor of Music

Bachelor of Music is an academic degree awarded by a college, university, or conservatory upon completion of a program of study in music.

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Benny Golson

Benny Golson (born January 25, 1929) is an American bebop/hard bop jazz tenor saxophonist, composer, and arranger.

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Big Bags

Big Bags is an album by vibraphonist Milt Jackson featuring big band performances arranged by Tadd Dameron and Ernie Wilkins recorded in 1962 and released on the Riverside label.

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Billy Strayhorn

William Thomas "Billy" Strayhorn (November 29, 1915 – May 31, 1967) was an American jazz composer, pianist, lyricist, and arranger, best known for his successful collaboration with bandleader and composer Duke Ellington, lasting nearly three decades.

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Bobby Hutcherson

Robert Hutcherson (January 27, 1941 – August 15, 2016) was an American jazz vibraphone and marimba player.

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Call and response (music)

In music, a call and response is a succession of two distinct phrases usually written in different parts of the music, where the second phrase is heard as a direct commentary on or in response to the first.

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Clifford Coulter

Clifford Coulter is an American blues, R&B and jazz guitarist and keyboardist.

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Count Basie

William James "Count" Basie (August 21, 1904 – April 26, 1984) was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer.

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Dizzy Gillespie

John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and singer.

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Dizzy Gillespie and the Mitchell Ruff Duo in Concert

Dizzy Gillespie and the Mitchell Ruff Duo in Concert is a live album by trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie and the Mitchell-Ruff Duo recorded at Dartmouth College in 1971 and released on the Mainstream label.

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Do It Now! (Clifford Coulter album)

Do It Now! (subtitled Worry 'Bout It Later) is the second album by American guitarist and keyboardist Clifford Coulter recorded in 1971 for the Impulse! label.

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Documentary film

A documentary film is a nonfictional motion picture intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education, or maintaining a historical record.

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Double bass

The double bass, or simply the bass (and numerous other names), is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra.

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Duke Ambassadors

The Duke Ambassadors was a student-run jazz big band, active at Duke University from 1934-1964.

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Duke Ellington

Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American composer, pianist, and bandleader of a jazz orchestra, which he led from 1923 until his death in a career spanning over fifty years.

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Duke Ellington Fellowship Program

The Duke Ellington Fellowship Program is a community-based organization which sponsors artists mentoring and performing with Yale University students and young musicians from the New Haven public school system.

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Duke University

Duke University is a private, non-profit, research university located in Durham, North Carolina.

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Dwike Mitchell

Dwike Mitchell (born Ivory Mitchell Jr.; February 14, 1930) was an American piano player and teacher.

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Epic Records

Epic Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, Inc., the North American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony.

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Ethnomusicology

Ethnomusicology is the study of music from the cultural and social aspects of the people who make it.

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Exclusive psalmody

Exclusive psalmody is the practice of singing only the biblical Psalms in congregational singing as worship.

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For Someone I Love

For Someone I Love is an album by vibraphonist Milt Jackson featuring big band performances arranged by Melba Liston recorded in 1963 and released on the Riverside label.

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French horn

The French horn (since the 1930s known simply as the "horn" in some professional music circles) is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell.

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Gil Evans

Ian Ernest Gilmore "Gil" Evans (born Green; May 13, 1912 – March 20, 1988) was a Canadian jazz pianist, arranger, composer and bandleader.

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Gil Evans & Ten

Gil Evans & Ten (also released as Big Stuff and Gil Evans + Ten) is the first album by pianist, conductor, arranger and composer Gil Evans as a leader, released on the Prestige label in 1957.

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Head On (Bobby Hutcherson album)

Head On is an album by American jazz vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson recorded in 1971 and released on the Blue Note label.

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Hoochie Coochie Man (Jimmy Smith album)

Hoochie Coochie Man is a 1966 album by Jimmy Smith arranged by Oliver Nelson.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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Jimmy Smith (musician)

James Oscar Smith (December 8, 1925 or 1928 – February 8, 2005) was an American jazz musician who achieved the rare distinction of releasing a series of instrumental jazz albums that often charted on Billboard.

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John P. Hammond

John Paul Hammond (born November 13, 1942, New York City) is an American singer and musician.

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KGOU

KGOU is a National Public Radio member News/Talk/Jazz music/Blues music radio station serving the Oklahoma City area and towns in Pontotoc, Seminole and Grady counties.

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Lalo Schifrin

Boris Claudio "Lalo" Schifrin (born June 21, 1932) is an Argentine-born American pianist, composer, arranger and conductor.

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Leonard Cohen

Leonard Norman Cohen (September 21, 1934 – November 7, 2016) was a Canadian singer-songwriter, poet and novelist.

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Lining out

Lining out or hymn lining, called precenting the line in Scotland, is a form of a cappella hymn-singing or hymnody in which a leader, often called the clerk or precentor, gives each line of a hymn tune as it is to be sung, usually in a chanted form giving or suggesting the tune.

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Lionel Hampton

Lionel Leo Hampton (April 20, 1908 – August 31, 2002) was an American jazz vibraphonist, pianist, percussionist, bandleader and actor.

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Louis Armstrong

Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed Satchmo, Satch, and Pops, was an American trumpeter, composer, singer and occasional actor who was one of the most influential figures in jazz.

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Master of Music

The Master of Music (M.M. or M.Mus.) is, as an academic title, the first graduate degree in Music awarded by universities and conservatories.

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Memoir

A memoir (US: /ˈmemwɑːr/; from French: mémoire: memoria, meaning memory or reminiscence) is a collection of memories that an individual writes about moments or events, both public or private, that took place in the subject's life.

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Miles Ahead (album)

Miles Ahead is an album by Miles Davis that was released in 1957 by Columbia Records.

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Miles Davis

Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926September 28, 1991) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.

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Miles Davis & Gil Evans: The Complete Columbia Studio Recordings

Miles Davis & Gil Evans: The Complete Columbia Studio Recordings is a box set of music by jazz musicians Miles Davis and Gil Evans originally released on CD in 1996 and remastered and re-released in 2004.

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Milt Jackson

Milton "Bags" Jackson (January 1, 1923 – October 9, 1999) was an American jazz vibraphonist, usually thought of as a bebop player, although he performed in several jazz idioms.

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Native Americans in the United States

Native Americans, also known as American Indians, Indians, Indigenous Americans and other terms, are the indigenous peoples of the United States.

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Ohio

Ohio is a Midwestern state in the Great Lakes region of the United States.

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Once a Thief and Other Themes

Once a Thief and Other Themes is an album of film and television themes by Argentine composer, pianist and conductor Lalo Schifrin recorded in 1965 and released on the Verve label.

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Opening act

An opening act, warm-up act, or supporting act is an entertainment act (musical, comedic, or otherwise), that performs at a concert before the featured act, or "headliner".

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Paul Hindemith

Paul Hindemith (16 November 1895 – 28 December 1963) was a prolific German composer, violist, violinist, teacher and conductor.

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Porgy and Bess (Miles Davis album)

Porgy and Bess (CL 1274) is a studio album by jazz musician Miles Davis, released in March 1959 on Columbia Records.

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Precentor

A precentor is a person who helps facilitate worship.

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Quincy Jones

Quincy Delight Jones Jr. (born March 14, 1933), also known as "Q", is an American musician and record producer.

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Quincy Plays for Pussycats

Quincy Plays for Pussycats is an album by Quincy Jones featuring sessions recorded between 1959 and 1965 which was released on the Mercury label.

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Radio program

A radio program (radio programme in the United Kingdom) or radio show is a segment of content intended for broadcast on radio.

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Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base

Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base (1942–present) is an Air National Guard facility of the Ohio Air National Guard located near Lockbourne in southern Franklin County.

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Rodgers and Hammerstein

Rodgers and Hammerstein refers to composer Richard Rodgers (1902–1979) and lyricist-dramatist Oscar Hammerstein II (1895–1960), who together were an influential, innovative and successful American musical theatre writing team.

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Roulette Records

Roulette Records was an American record company and label founded in 1957 by George Goldner, Joe Kolsky, Morris Levy and Phil Kahl, with creative control given to producers and songwriters Hugo Peretti and Luigi Creatore.

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Samuel Sanford

Samuel Simons Sanford (15 March 18496 January 1910) was an American pianist and educator.

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Scottish national identity

Scottish national identity is a term referring to the sense of national identity, as embodied in the shared and characteristic culture, languages and traditions, of the Scottish people.

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Session musician

Session musicians, studio musicians, or backing musicians are musicians hired to perform in recording sessions or live performances.

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Sheffield, Alabama

Sheffield is a city in Colbert County, Alabama, United States, and is included in the Shoals metropolitan area.

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Songs of Leonard Cohen

Songs of Leonard Cohen is the debut album by Canadian folk singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen, released on December 27, 1967 on Columbia Records.

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Sonny Stitt

Edward Hammond Boatner Jr. (February 2, 1924 – July 22, 1982), known professionally as Sonny Stitt, was an American jazz saxophonist of the bebop/hard bop idiom.

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Sonny Stitt & the Top Brass

Sonny Stitt & the Top Brass is an album by saxophonist Sonny Stitt recorded in 1962 and released on the Atlantic label.

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Sterlin Harjo

Sterlin Harjo (Seminole-Muscogee, born 1979)Sam Lewin,, Native Times News, reprinted in Canku Ota, May 24, 2004 (article gives his age as 24 in 2004).

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Take a Number from 1 to 10

Take a Number from 1 to 10 is an album by saxophonist Benny Golson, featuring performances recorded in late 1960 and early 1961 and originally released on the Argo label.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper founded on December 6, 1877.

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This May Be the Last Time

This May Be the Last Time is a 2014 American documentary film produced and directed by Sterlin Harjo.

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Traditional black gospel

Traditional black gospel is music that is written to express either personal or a communal belief regarding African American Christian life, as well as (in terms of the varying music styles) to give a Christian alternative to mainstream secular music.

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United States Air Force

The United States Air Force (USAF) is the aerial and space warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces.

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W. C. Handy Music Festival

The W. C. Handy Music Festival is held annually in Florence, Alabama, sponsored by the Music Preservation Society, Inc., in honor of Florence native W. C. Handy, the "Father of the Blues." The non-profit Music Preservation Society was formed in 1982, with the mission to preserve, present, and promote the musical heritage of Northwest Alabama.

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Yale School of Music

The Yale School of Music is one of the 12 professional schools at Yale University.

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Yale University

Yale University is an American private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Ruff

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