Frank Lee Devine, guitar/vocals; Tartan Purry, clarinet/sax/vocals; Professor Joseph Cordi, piano/vocals; King Crazy Oliver Steck, trumpet/vocals; General Ryan Gould, string bass/vocals
Influences
The Babies are influenced by all their worldly adventures and experiences, ranging from World War espionage to back porch jams with the Big Jug Band. They have spent time exploring the heights and the depths of the planet and spent time teaching some of the greats during their tenures at lofty conservatories and theatres like Carnegie Hall.
The Babies draw on these life experiences and combine them with everything occuring around them at the time they are making beautiful music to deliver the highest quality entertainment and finest musical performances.
Sounds Like
heaven; birds singing; the best band ever; better than any other band you've ever heard; great stuff; excellence.
Aunt Rubys Sweet Jazz Babies is an Austin, Texas based collection of talent and artistry that seeks to embody, in todays terms, the very essence of the hot jazz and swing music prevalent from the 1910-1940s. Each Aunt Rubys Sweet Jazz Babies performance is a family oriented event filled with dancing, romance, educated humor, and cosmopolitan sophistication.
The Babies are not a retrospective, sentimental group that longs for days gone by. Aunt Rubys Sweet Jazz Babies is a spontaneous and passionate band that celebrates the shear joy and treasures of living through song for the enjoyment of everyone.
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The following images are links to videos of Aunt Ruby's Sweet Jazz Babies performing live on Fox7 Morning News in Austin, Texas, on December 3, 2007. The Babies extend their gratitude to Fox7 News in Austin for featuring the Babies on their morning news program, and also to Cora Lee and Vernon Young of Spokane, Washington for providing a recording of these videos to the Babies Historical Archive. We hope you will enjoy the video files of the Babies performing “Sugar” and “When the Little Red Roses Get the Blues for You”.
"Sugar"
"When the Little Red Roses Get the Blues for You"
The following images are links to videos of Aunt Ruby's Sweet Jazz Babies performing live for the Austin Traditional Jazz Society in Austin, Texas, on April 20, 2008. This lineup of the Babies also includes the incredible Mr. Mark "Speedy" Gonzales performing on Trombone! The Babies extend their to Mr. Monte Price of Austin, Texas for providing a recording of these videos to the Babies Historical Archive. We hope you will enjoy the video files of the Babies performing.
"Louise"
"All My Life"
"When the Red Red Robin Comes Bob Bob Bobbin' Along"
"I Can't Give You Anything But Love"
"Have You Ever Been In Heaven"
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