Willie Ruff (born September 1, 1931) is 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.
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Dwike Mitchell
American pianist
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Russell Procope
American musician
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Billy Mitchell
American jazz tenor saxophonist
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Charlie Persip
American jazz drummer
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Al Grey
American jazz musician
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Billy Eckstine
American musician
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Cat Anderson
American jazz trumpeter
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Ben Webster
American saxophonist
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Willie Cook
American musician
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Åke Persson
Swedish musician
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Mickey Roker
American jazz drummer
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Wild Bill Davis
American jazz pianist, organist, and arranger
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Louie Bellson
American jazz drummer, a composer, arranger, bandleader, and jazz educator
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Les Spann
American guitarist
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Matthew Gee
American musician
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Budd Johnson
American musician
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Britt Woodman
American jazz trombonist
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Jimmy Cleveland
American jazz trombonist
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Clark Terry
American swing and bebop musician
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Max Roach
American jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer
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Gerald Wilson
American trumpetist (1918-2014)
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Jimmy Forrest
African American jazz musician
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Harry Edison
American trumpeter
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Illinois Jacquet
American jazz tenor saxophonist, songwriter
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Joe Wilder
American trumpeter
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Bill Graham
American musician
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Joe Farrell
American saxophonist
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George Avakian
American record producer of Armenian descent
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Don Sebesky
American jazz musician
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John Dankworth
British musician (1927-2010)
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Cándido Camero
Cuban percussionist
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Creed Taylor
American record producer
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Lex Humphries
American drummer
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Duke Ellington
American jazz musician, composer and band leader
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Charles Mingus
American jazz double bassist, composer and bandleader
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Cecil Payne
American jazz saxophonist
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Curtis Fuller
American jazz musician
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Leo Wright
American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist and flautist
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Count Basie Orchestra
American big band led by Count Basie
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Mary Lou Williams
American jazz pianist, arranger, and composer
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Sonny Stitt
American jazz saxophonist
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Sabu Martinez
American musician
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Percy Heath
American musician
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Jerome Richardson
American jazz multi-instrumentalist
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Urbie Green
American jazz trombonist
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Duško Gojković
Serbian musician
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Jimmy Owens
jazz trumpeter, composer, arranger, lecturer, and educator
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Dave Burns
American musician, trumpeter and music educator
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Badal Roy
musician
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Billy Strayhorn
American musician, composer, lyricist and arranger