Jazz at Two featuring Ruffus 4-tet

By one published account, Rafael "Ruffus" Silva was playing thirteen instruments by fifteen, having begun music study at eleven in his native Santos, Brazil. A scholarship took him to Berklee, and he later worked New York rooms that include the Blue Note and the Jazz Standard. A pianist and saxophonist, he leads the Ruffus 4-tet through jazz standards, bossa nova, Brazilian and Latin numbers, Songbook favorites, his own compositions and jazz versions of familiar pop songs at Unitarian Universalist of SRQ.