A half-hour documentary by Willie Ruff and Gretchen Berland -"A Conjoining of Ancient Song"

A Conjoining of Ancient Song from Yale ISM on Vimeo.

 

 

Clips from a documentary on the Mitchell Ruff Duo made in 1981

The Mitchell Ruff Duo brought jazz to the Shanghai Conservatory for the first time after the Cultural Revolution in June 1981. This event was filmed by conservatory students given 3 super 8 cameras by the Duo. Part of the film was broadcast on the MacNeil Lehrer Report on New Year's Day 1982. For the complete story of the trip, see A Call to Assembly. Or read William Zinsser's account for the New Yorker, Shanghai Blues.

The Mitchell Ruff Duo in the USSR. For the story of the trip, see A Call to Assembly

or Time Magazine's "Those Cool Reds" from the Monday, Aug. 31, 1959, issue.

Tap Dancers Cookie Brown and Chuck Green join the Mitchell Ruff Duo on a Duke Ellington Fellowship at Yale concert at Yale University's Sprague Hall.

 

The Mitchell Ruff Duo's trip to Russia 25 years after its historic trip in 1959 at the Ambassador's Residence in Moscow.