There is more than one artist with this name: 1. Jack Ruby was a short-lived proto-No Wave band from New York featuring George Scott of the James Chance & the Contortions fame. “Seven years ago, a guy named Gary Reese wrote me and said he was friends with the late Contortions bass player George Scott, and that he could probably help me out with some information on the mythic band Jack Ruby. Up until that point, nobody knew of any surviving recordings by this unit.