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It’s been a whirlwind six months for Kermit Alphonso, known best to NEPA music fans for his work with The Collective. The hip-hop, soul and funk band — clearly the biggest such act to ever hail from ...

Kermit Ruffins has retired from his weekly Thursday gig at Vaughan's Vaughan's Lounge at 800 Lesseps St. in New Orleans Thursday August 18, 2011. (DAVID GRUNFELD, NOLA.com | THE TIMES PICAYUNE) Jay ...

For more than 20 years, trumpeter Kermit Ruffins' weekly Thursday gig at Vaughan's in Bywater has served as a dependable, and popular, late-night music option. At Vaughan's and elsewhere, he embodied ...

This record makes me think of something Tom Waits once said, “In New Orleans, music is like hot sauce. They put it on their food.” Yes, we do, and few things taste as good as trumpeter Kermit Ruffins, ...

In celebration of Basin Street Records’ 20th anniversary, label mates and trumpeters Kermit Ruffins and Irvin Mayfield join forces on A Beautiful World. These two mock adversaries, who used to ...