Kermit Ruffins To Release CD, Get Hitched Onstage

  I  

Basin Street Records will celebrate the release of Kermit Ruffins’ new album, Live At Vaughan’s, at Vaughan’s in New Orleans on April 5.

All of the proceeds from the evening’s CD sales will be donated to the Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong Summer Jazz Camp. The CD itself is set for release on April 3.

In other news, Ruffins is set to get married onstage at the French Quarter Fest on April 14. The public is invited to attend.

For more information, visit: www.basinstreetrecords.com



  • Andy_Bey_NYC_2014_by_Steven_Sussman_copy.jpg

    “It kind of slows down, but it’s still kind of productive in a way, because you have something that you can be inspired by,” Andy Bey said on a 2019 episode of NPR Jazz Night in America, when he was 80. “The music is always inspiring.”

    Vocalist Andy Bey Dies at 85

    Singer Andy Bey, who illuminated the jazz scene for five decades with a four-octave range that encompassed a bellowing…

  • Al_Foster_Marketing.jpg

    Foster was truly a drummer to the stars, including Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins and Joe Henderson.

  • Branford_Marsalis_by_Mark_Sheldon_copy.jpg

    “Branford’s playing has steadily improved,” says younger brother Wynton Marsalis. “He’s just gotten more and more serious.”

  • Sasha_Berliner_by_Gulnara_Khamatova_copy.jpeg

    “What did I want more of when I was this age?” Sasha Berliner asks when she’s in her teaching mode.

  • unnamed.jpg

    Roscoe Mitchell will receive a Lifetime Achievement award at this year’s Vision Festival.


On Sale Now
July 2025
Joe Satriani & Steve Vai
Look Inside
Subscribe
Print | Digital | iPad