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Mark Ruffin is an American broadcaster, producer, and writer. He has won the regional Chicago / Midwest Emmy Awards [1] [2] two times, and has been nominated for a Grammy Award. [3] Ruffin has been the Program Director/On-Air host for Sirius XM's Real Jazz channel [4] [5] since 2007.. Ruffin received both the Jazz Journalists Association's Career Excellence Award in Broadcasting and the Duke ...

Mark Ruffin on Jazz, Baseball & Intolerance. Mark Ruffin is a jazz journalist and radio host. A two-time Emmy Award-winning television broadcaster and a Grammy nominee, he is the Program Director for Real Jazz on Sirius XM. His new book, Bebop Fairy Tales: An Historical Fiction Trilogy on Jazz, Intolerance, and Baseball, is out now.

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 ...