Kermit Ruffins
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Kermit Ruffins is an American jazz trumpeter, singer, and composer from New Orleans. He has been influenced by Louis Armstrong and Louis Jordan and says that the highest note he can hit on trumpet is
Ruffins at the 2007 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
Ruffins (left) with the late Danny Barker at French Quarter Festival, circa 1990
Ruffins at Tipitina's, February 2006
Ruffins at Old Mint, shown before a set at the Satchmo SummerFest, August 2007
Rebirth Brass Band
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The Rebirth Brass Band is a New Orleans brass band. The group was founded in 1983 by Phillip "Tuba Phil" Frazier, his brother Keith Frazier, Kermit Ruffins, and classmates from Joseph S. Clark Senior
Kermit Ruffins
…He developed an appreciation for cooking from his grandmother, observing her movements in the kitchen. Ruffins co-founded the Rebirth Brass Band in 1983 while attending Clark High School in the Tremé neighborhood. He made his first recordings with the Rebirth band in 1984. The group was inspired…
Three members of the Rebirth Brass Band and other musicians play for a second-line parade in the Central Business District of New Orleans in 2007.
Rebirth Brass Band at the Maple Leaf, December 15, 2015
Glen David and Troy Andrews at JazzFest 2010