Willie Ruff, the Glossary
Willie Henry Ruff Jr. (September 1, 1931 – December 24, 2023) was an American jazz musician, specializing in the French horn and double bass, and a music scholar and educator, primarily as a Yale professor from 1971 to 2017.[1]
Table of Contents
76 relations: A cappella, Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame, Bachelor of Music, Benny Golson, Big Bags, Billy Strayhorn, Bobby Hutcherson, Call and response (music), Charlie Smith (drummer), 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 Cooche Man, Jazz, Jimmy Smith (musician), John P. Hammond, KGOU, Killen, Alabama, 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, ... Expand index (26 more) »
- American jazz horn players
A cappella
Music performed a cappella, less commonly spelled a capella in English, is music performed by a singer or a singing group without instrumental accompaniment.
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Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame
The Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame (AJHF) is an organization and museum in Birmingham, Alabama, United States.
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Bachelor of Music
A Bachelor of Music (BMus or BM) 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.
Billy Strayhorn
William Thomas Strayhorn (November 29, 1915 – May 31, 1967) was an American jazz composer, pianist, lyricist, and arranger who collaborated with bandleader and composer Duke Ellington for 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, call and response is a compositional technique, often a succession of two distinct phrases that works like a conversation in music.
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Charlie Smith (drummer)
Charlie Smith (April 15, 1927 in New York City – January 15, 1966 in New Haven), was an American jazz drummer.
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Clifford Coulter
Clifford Coulter (died August 16, 2021) was 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, educator 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 or documentary is a non-fictional motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a historical record".
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Double bass
The double bass, also known as the upright bass, the acoustic bass, or simply the bass, is the largest and lowest-pitched chordophone in the modern symphony orchestra (excluding rare additions such as the octobass).
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Duke Ambassadors
The Duke Ambassadors was a student-run jazz big band, active at Duke University from 1934 to 1964.
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Duke Ellington
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and leader of his eponymous jazz orchestra from 1923 through the rest of his life.
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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 research university in Durham, North Carolina, United States.
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Dwike Mitchell
Dwike Mitchell (born Ivory Mitchell Jr.; February 14, 1930 – April 7, 2013) 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, the American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony.
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Ethnomusicology
Ethnomusicology (from Greek ἔθνος ethnos ‘nation’ and μουσική mousike ‘music’) is the multidisciplinary study of music in its cultural context, investigating social, cognitive, biological, comparative, and other dimensions involved other than sound. Ethnomusicologists study music as a reflection of culture and investigate the act of musicking through various immersive, observational, and analytical approaches drawn from other disciplines such as anthropology to understand a culture’s music.
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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 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 Evans (né Green; May 13, 1912 – March 20, 1988) was a Canadian–American jazz pianist, arranger, composer and bandleader.
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 Cooche Man
Hoochie Cooche 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, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals.
Jimmy Smith (musician)
James Oscar Smith (December 8, 1928 – February 8, 2005) was an American jazz musician who helped popularize the Hammond B-3 organ, creating a link between jazz and 1960s soul music.
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John P. Hammond
John Paul Hammond (born November 13, 1942) is an American singer and musician.
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KGOU
KGOU (106.3 MHz) is a non-commercial, listener-supported, public radio station.
Killen, Alabama
Killen is a town in Lauderdale County, Alabama, United States.
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Lalo Schifrin
Boris Claudio "Lalo" Schifrin (born June 21, 1932) is an Argentine-American pianist, composer, arranger, and conductor.
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Leonard Cohen
Leonard Norman Cohen (September 21, 1934November 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, percussionist, and bandleader. Willie Ruff and Lionel Hampton are jazz musicians from Alabama.
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Louis Armstrong
Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed "Satchmo", "Satch", and "Pops", was an American trumpeter and vocalist.
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Master of Music
The Master of Music (MM or MMus) is, as an academic title, the first graduate degree in music awarded by universities and conservatories.
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Memoir
A memoir is any nonfiction narrative writing based on the author's personal memories.
Miles Ahead (album)
Miles Ahead is an album by Miles Davis that was released in October 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 Jackson (January 1, 1923 – October 9, 1999), nicknamed "Bags", was an American jazz vibraphonist.
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Native Americans in the United States
Native Americans, sometimes called American Indians, First Americans, or Indigenous Americans, are the Indigenous peoples native to portions of the land that the United States is located on.
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Ohio
Ohio is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.
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, also known as a warm-up act, support act, supporting act or opener, 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 189528 December 1963) was a German and American composer, music theorist, teacher, violist and conductor.
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Porgy and Bess (Miles Davis album)
Porgy and Bess (CL 1274) is a studio album by the 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.
Quincy Jones
Quincy Delight Jones Jr. (born March 14, 1933) is an American record producer, songwriter, composer, arranger, and film and television 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, 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 is an Ohio Air National Guard installation at Rickenbacker International Airport near Lockbourne in southern Franklin County.
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Rodgers and Hammerstein
Rodgers and Hammerstein was a theater-writing team of composer Richard Rodgers (1902–1979) and lyricist-dramatist Oscar Hammerstein II (1895–1960), who together created a series of innovative and influential American musicals.
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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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Sheffield, Alabama
Sheffield is a city in Colbert County, Alabama, United States, and is included in the Florence-Muscle Shoals Metropolitan Area. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 9,403.
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Sideman
A sideman is a professional musician who is hired to perform live with a solo artist, or with a group in which they are not a regular band member.
Songs of Leonard Cohen
Songs of Leonard Cohen is the debut album by Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen, released on December 27, 1967, on Columbia Records.
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Sonny Stitt
Sonny Stitt (born Edward Hammond Boatner Jr.; February 2, 1924 – July 22, 1982) 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 (born November 14, 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, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.
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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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TimesDaily
The TimesDaily is the daily newspaper for Florence, Alabama.
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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 air service branch of the United States Armed Forces, and is one of the eight uniformed services of the United States.
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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
Yale School of Music (often abbreviated to YSM) is one of the 12 professional schools at Yale University.
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Yale University
Yale University is a private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut.
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See also
American jazz horn players
- Bob Northern
- David Amram
- James Buffington
- John Clark (musician)
- John Graas
- Julius Watkins
- Junior Collins
- Lee Bracegirdle
- Pete Levin
- Richard Dunbar
- Robert Lee Watt
- Sharon Freeman
- Stefan de Leval Jezierski
- Tom Varner
- Vincent Chancey
- Willie Ruff
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Ruff
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