Ruby Braff, born in Boston and his first brush with professional music know him when he frequently visited the district of Storyville in the company of clarinetist, Pee Wee Russell. This cornetist-trumpeter, left ignore the times he lived - the bebop-and chose instead to develop and refine the sounds of swing. His admiration for Louis Armstrong was such that succeeded in developing a proposal consistent with the musical sounds of New Orleans. In 1953 he moved to New York where he began recording with prominent musicians of the same style. Achieved a remarkable success with an album in the company of trombonist Vic Dickenson, but it was very difficult to find work in town and at one

time given to emerging new sound in jazz: bebop. In the early sixties and during the next decade, first recorded steadily with guitarist George Barnes, then with the rise of the new label "Concord Jazz Records" out of ostracism with other musicians represent his style.