Remembrances
Interviews and Features
- Renaissance man - Willie Ruff's creative intellect knew no bounds. - Yale Alumni Magazine
- Willie Ruff, Jazz Missionary and Professor, Dies at 92 - New York Times
- Sheffield native, former Yale music professor Willie Ruff dies at 92 - Times Daily
- Willie Ruff, legendary musician and scholar who studied and taught at Yale, dies at 92 - Yale University
- The Fascinating Quest of a “Supreme Musician” by Chuck McCutcheon
- LEONARD COHEN’S BASS MAN HAS DIED
- Willie Ruff, co-founder of the W.C. Handy Music Festival, passes away - WAFF 48
- Willie Ruff, a world renowned jazz musician who played with greats and taught at Yale, dies at 92 - CT Insider
Interviews and Features
- From the Balcony to the Stage. An Interview with Willie Ruff at the Ritz Theatre in Sheffield, AL
- Unforgettable: Fifty years ago, an assembly of jazz greats shared the stage at Woolsey Hall. By Ben Yagoda, Yale Alumni Magazine, Sep/Oct 2022
- The French Horn in the Lives of Musicians of African and Creole Descent in America, 1700-2000, HD
- Global Education Project: Perspective Conciousness - The Talking Drum - article by Willie Ruff
- Leonard Cohen Files - John Hammond Interview (includes commentary on Willie Ruff)
- Dwike Mitchell & Willie Ruff: A tribute
- Article on the talking drum
- The Harmony of the World: An Interview with Willie Ruff on his Kepler Project
- Willie Ruff Uses Cinema Skills to Intro Aaron Diehl's Trio Set at Yale (NPR)
- Treasures from the Yale Film Archive: Willie Ruff Online Screening and Filmmaker Conversation
- NPR - Radio Diaries: Harry Pace And The Rise And Fall Of Black Swan Records
- The New Yorker - Black, Brown, And Beige: Duke Ellington’s Music and Race In America
Claudia Roth Pierpont - Charles Mingus, Duke Ellington, and Willie Ruff at the 1972 Jazz Convocation at Yale University - Yale Alumni Magaznie
- Interview Transcripts
- Willie Ruff's Interviews with American Jazz Greats
- Willie Ruff Interviewed by Libby Van Cleve, 2.24.2015
- Willie Ruff on Jazz French Horn
- Online Exhibit Drawing on Willie Ruff's Work: The Struggles and Triumphs of Bessie Jones, Big Mama Thornton, and Ethel Waters
- The Yale Music Library Archives include collections of Benny Goodman, Slam Stewart, Ted Lewis
- Yale Historical Sound Collection
- All About Jazz
- www.mvdaily.com - a e-zine for classical music lovers
- The Edward Kennedy Ellington Pages
- Library of Congress (contains large archive of Duke Ellington materials)
- Duke Ellington Society
- Dedication To Duke
- Billy Strayhorn - The Music
- Artists Direct - Ultimate Band List
- Dutch Classical Music Home Page
- Jazz Horn Page
- Tom Varner - Composer - French Hornist
- John Clark - Hidden Meaning Music - Jazz Horn and Composer
- Primary Colors - Vocalist Nate Pruitt and Guitarist Rick Vandivier
- Jerryjazzmusician.com
- Tuskegee Airmen
- Veterans of Underage Military Service
- eJazz Lines
- OKoto- Computer Music Resources on the Internet