Reuben "Ruby" Braff (March 16, 1927 – February 9, 2003) was an American jazz musician who played the trumpet and cornet. Jack Teagarden once talked about Ruby on the Garry Moore television show and called him "the Ivy League Louis Armstrong."

Braff was born in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, and was of Jewish heritage. He was known for his music style, which came from the playing of Louis Armstrong and Bix Beiderbecke. He started performing in local clubs in the 1940s. In 1949, he joined the Edmond Hall Orchestra at the Savoy Cafe in Boston. In 1953, he moved to New York, where he was often asked to play in bands and record music.

He lived in Harwich, Massachusetts, and died on February 9, 2003, in Chatham, Massachusetts, due to complications from emphysema, heart failure, and glaucoma. He had lived much of his life in the Riverdale section of The Bronx, New York City.

Discography

• Buck Meets Ruby (Vanguard, 1954) with Buck Clayton
• Jazz at Storyville, Volumes 1 and 2 (Savoy, 1955) with Pee Wee Russell
• Ruby Braff Swings (Bethlehem, 1955)
• Holiday in Braff (Bethlehem, 1955)
• Ball at Bethlehem with Braff (Bethlehem, 1955)
• Braff!! (Epic, 1956)
• Ruby Braff featuring Dave McKenna (ABC-Paramount, 1956)
• Hi-Fi Salute to Bunny (RCA Victor, 1957)
• The Ruby Braff Octet with Pee Wee Russell & Bobby Henderson at Newport (Verve, 1957)
• Ruby Braff Goes 'Girl Crazy' (Warner Bros. Records, 1958)
• Easy Now (RCA, 1959)
• You're Getting To Be A Habit With Me (Stere-O-Craft, 1959)
• Blowing Around The World (United Artists, 1959)
• The Ruby Braff Marshall Brown Sextet (United Artists, 1961)
• Very Sinatra (Finesse, 1982)
• Live at the Regattabar (Arbors, 1993)
• Ruby Braff Remembers Louis Armstrong: Being with You (Arbors, 1997)
• You Can Depend on Me (Arbors, 1998)
• Born to Play (Arbors, 1999)
• Ruby Braff and Strings: In the Wee, Small Hours in London and New York (Arbors, 2000)
• The Cape Godfather (Arbors, 2000)
• Music for the Still of the Night (Arbors, 2001)
• I Hear Music (Arbors, 2002)
• Relaxing at the Penthouse with the John Pizzarelli Trio (Victoria, 2002)
• Variety Is the Spice of Braff (Arbors, 2002)
• Watch What Happens (Arbors, 2003)
• You Brought a New Kind of Love (Arbors, 2005)
• Controlled Nonchalance at the Regattabar, Vol. 2 (Arbors, 2006)
• Ruby Braff And The Flying Pizzarellis: C'est Magnifique! (Arbors, 2007)
• Little Things – Live In Dublin 1976 (Nagel-Heyer Records, 2007)
• For the Last Time – Ruby Braff's Historic Final Performance With Scott Hamilton (Arbors, 2008)
• Our Love is Here to Stay (Arbors, 2010)

• The Ruby Braff-George Barnes Quartet (Chiaroscuro, 1974)
• The Ruby Braff-George Barnes Quartet Salutes Rodgers and Hart (Concord Jazz, 1974)
• The Ruby Braff-George Barnes Quartet – Live at the New School (Chiaroscuro, 1974)
• The Ruby Braff-George Barnes Quartet Plays Gershwin (Concord Jazz, 1974)
• The Ruby Braff-George Barnes Quartet – To Fred Astaire with Love (RCA, 1975)

• 2 Part Inventions in Jazz, Vol. 2 (Vanguard, 1955)
• The Grand Reunion (Chiaroscuro, 1972)
• Ruby Braff & Ellis Larkins: The Complete Duets (Definitive Classics, 2006)
• Ruby Braff and Ellis Larkins: Calling Berlin, Vols. 1 & 2 (Arbors)

• Larry Adler Again! (Audio Fidelity, 1959)

• Louis Armstrong and His Friends (Flying Dutchman/Amsterdam,