“Lots of good, greasy fun” – Rick Anderson, All Music Guide “Kermit plays a sweet, sweet horn” – Newsweek.com “A musical good-time tour of the Crescent City” – Larry Applebaum, Jazztimes
Lifted into the national spotlight by the hit television show Treme, Kermit keeps the momentum swinging with his first big band album. OffBeat Magazine’s Best of the Beat award winner for Best Traditional Jazz Album!
An unabashed entertainer who plays trumpet with a bright, silvery tone” – Jon Pareles, NY Times “A universal call to party” – Jeff Kalis, Jazziz “Channeling the free spirit of Satchmo” – C. Michael Bailey, AllAboutJazz.com Top local CDs of 2001 – Times-Picayune Best Traditional Jazz Album – OffBEAT Best of the Beat Awards
On the heels of his OffBEAT Magazine “Entertainer of the Year” award, Kermit includes a beefed up horn section to show the world what Swing should be. Produced by Tracey Freeman. Swing This! is swathed in the sauce of New Orleans with Ruffins the ever-ready chef. – JazzTimes
The album that started it all. Kermit Ruffins & The BBQ Swingers Live at Tipitina’s, New Orleans, 1997. Mastered for and issued on vinyl for the first time to celebrate our 20th anniversary.
Kermit continues to blur the boundaries of Jazz, Funk, Brass Band, and Hip Hop with Livin’ A Treme Life an album named for the famed New Orleans neighborhood essential to its culture
“We Partyin’ Traditional Style! is like a love letter to Ruffin’s home town, and demonstrates once again his devotion to the preservation of New Orleans jazz.” –EurWeb
A Package of 30 CDs of your choosing (a $450 value), for only $300 in celebration of the New Orleans tricentennial. An offer like this only comes once in a lifetime. Includes free U.S. shipping.
Trumpeter and New orleans legend Kermit Ruffins performs classic jazz and swing in the tradition of Louis Armstrong in this retrospective compilation put together by Putamayo World Music
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