Yale Professor Willie Ruff, jazz musician and scholar, brought together three congregations "separated by custom and law," but united in belief and their devotion to a form of psalm singing that spans ...

A centuries-old singing tradition in Scotland , found by Yale professor and jazz musician Willie Ruff to be an ancestor of African-American singing traditions in the Deep South , will be celebrated at ...

Jazz artist Willie Ruff, a Yale University music professor, is convinced that “presenting the line” _ the unaccompanied singing of psalms in Gaelic by Presbyterians of the Scottish Hebrides _ is the ...

A Scottish church has voted to allow the singing of hymns and playing of musical instruments for the first time in 160 years, according to a report. The Free Church of Scotland, which split from the ...