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Willie Ruff on Piano Jazz

Willie Ruff
Vincent Oneppo

  ---News Stations: Sat, Jul 11, 8 pm | Classical Stations: Sun, Jul, 12, 9 pm---

Willie Ruff is a master of the bass and the French horn, which he reveals as a singularly beautiful jazz instrument. Trained as a classical musician, he studied with Paul Hindemith at the Yale School of Music and signed as first horn with the Tel Aviv Symphony. He went on to team up with pianist Dwike Mitchell, forming the Mitchell-Ruff duo and performing worldwide. In this 1991 Piano Jazz session, Ruff plays horn on “Prelude to a Kiss” and bass on “There is No Greater Love.”