Willie Ruff, legendary musician and scholar who studied and taught at Yale, dies at 92

Willie Ruff, an influential and erudite jazz musician and scholar who connected the Yale and New Haven communities to "America's musical art form," died on Dec. 24 in Killen, Alabama. He was 92.

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