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He is founding Director of the Duke Ellington Fellowship Program at Yale, a community based organization sponsoring world-class artists mentoring and performing with Yale students and young musicians from the New Haven Public School System.
Ruff's 1992 memoir, "A Call to Assembly" was awarded the Deems Taylor ASCAP award. He has written widely on Paul Hindemith one of his teachers at Yale, and on his professional association with the American composers, Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn.
His collaborations with Yale Geologist, John Rodgers on the musical astronomy of the 17th century scientist, Johannes Kepler, resulted in an important "planetarium for the ear" currently on CD and published widely in international astronomy journals.
Ruff has also written on music and dance in Russia, and on the introduction of American Jazz in China where he has lectured in Mandarin. his next book, "Six Roads to Chicago" explore's the relation of culture in Chicago to life in its hinterlands.
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