Make It Funky (film)
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Make It Funky! is a 2005 American documentary film directed, written and co-produced by Michael Murphy. Subtitled in the original version as "It all began in New Orleans", the film presents a history
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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
Make It Funky (film)
…and the interviewees include local music pioneers Allen Toussaint, Lloyd Price, Irma Thomas, and Aaron Neville, contemporary New Orleans musicians Kermit Ruffins and Trombone Shorty, as well as rock musicians Bonnie Raitt and Keith Richards, who describe the influence of New Orleans music on their careers. The…
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