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Mark Ruffin: Bebop Fairy Tales
by Seton Hawkins
Celebrating 40 years as a jazz broadcaster, music producer, and writer this year, Mark Ruffin--perhaps best known as the program director for the Real Jazz channel on SiriusXM --stands as one of jazz's unsung heroes. Countless artists owe their career successes and prominence to his tireless efforts, boundless enthusiasm and advocacy, and encyclopedic knowledge of the art form. While he may be best known throughout the nation for his broadcasting, Ruffin has an equally deep resume as a writer, with ...
read moreMark Ruffin Celebrates 40th Anniversary In Radio Broadcasting With The September 1st Publication Of "Bebop Fairy Tales," His First Short Story Collection
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Mark Ruffin , known coast-to-coast as the afternoon drivetime DJ for SiriusXM’s Real Jazz channel, celebrates his 40th anniversary in jazz radio in on September 1, 2020. Ruffin, who is also the program director for Real Jazz, began his first professional job in the business—at Chicago NPR affiliate WBEZ-FM—on September 1, 1980. In the time since, he has amassed an odyssey’s worth of jobs, accomplishments, relationships, and stories, both real and imagined. (Three of the latter will be published September ...
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New National Jazz Radio Program with Neil Tesser & Mark Ruffin
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All About Jazz
JAZZ REVIEW PROGRAM MAKES NATIONAL DEBUT IN JANUARY Listen Here! features journalists and radio hosts Neil Tesser and Mark Ruffin CHICAGO -- Radio stations throughout North America and the Caribbean will be carrying a new weekly jazz radio program beginning in January, 2005. Dubbed Listen Here!, the show will be hosted by Chicago-based jazz journalists and radio hosts Neil Tesser and Mark Ruffin, and distributed by WFMT Radio Network. The program will air in a two-hour format incorporating ...
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