The singing Crescent City trumpeter dips into the Louis Armstrong songbook on this tartly rendered and thoroughly charming album. Ruffins evokes Pops' instrumental pizzazz in the peppy "Hey Look Me Over" and melancholy "La vie en rose." He also takes "If I Only Had a Brain" on an extended Latin journey before bringing it all back home with the geographically precise "I Got a Tremé Woman" and the swaggering blues of "New Orleans (My Home Town)."