Moda

Summer

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Fashion

Música:
James P Johnson
Old Fashioned Love (1944)
(James P Johnson)
DECCA 24882

James P. Johnson (p) Eddie Dougherty (d). New York, June 28, 1944.

Patron Saint

El Santo Patrono

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Música:
Robert Hicks (Barbecue Bob)
When The Saints Go Marching In (1927)
COLUMBIA 14231 D

Barbecue Bob (vcl,g). New York, June 16, 1927.
Robert Hicks: Better known as Barbecue Bob, most of his recordings were issued as such with the exception of Columbia 14231-D and 14531-D, which were released as by Robert Hicks.

Lontano

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Música:
Teddy Wilson
Long Ago And Far Away (1946)
MUSICRAFT 372

Teddy Wilson (p) solo. New York, May 12, 1946.

En la vieja ciudad

In the old town

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Música:
Bessie Smith
There'll Be A Hot Time In Old Town Tonight (1927)
COLUMBIA 14219 D

Bessie Smith (vcl) acc by her Band: Joe Smith (cnt) Jimmy Harrison (tb) Buster Bailey (cl-1) Coleman Hawkins (cl-2) Fletcher Henderson (p) Charlie Dixon (bj). New York, March 2, 1927

Cabalga Dura

Rideress

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Música:
Fletcher Henderson & His Orch
War Horse Mama (1924)
BRUNSWICK 2592

Fletcher Henderson and his Orchestra: Elmer Chambers, Howard Scott (cnt) Teddy Nixon (tb) Don Redman (cl,as) Coleman Hawkins (cl,ts) Allie Ross (vln) Fletcher Henderson (p) Charlie Dixon (bj) Ralph Escudero (tu) Kaiser Marshall (d). New York, March 11, 1924

Beso

Kiss Me

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Matame a besos.

Música:
("Lo peor que me has hecho fue besarme")
Fats Waller & His Rhythm
The Meanest Thing You Ever Did Was Kiss Me (1937)
(Lewis-Newman-Mencher)
VICTOR 25536

Fats Waller and his Rhythm: Herman Autrey (tp) Gene Sedric (cl,ts) Fats Waller (p,vcl) Al Casey (g) Charles Turner (b) Slick Jones (d). New York, February 22, 1937

La rebelión de las masas

Rebelión

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The Revolt of the Masses

Música:
Jimmy Dorsey And His Orch.
The Masquerade Is Over (1939)
DECCA 2293B

Jimmy Dorsey and his Orchestra: Ralph Muzzilo, Shorty Sherock (tp) Bobby Byrne, Sonny Lee (tb) Don Mattison (tb,vcl) Jimmy Dorsey (cl,as) Milt Yaner, Leonard Whitney (as) Charlie Frazier (ts,fl) Herbie Haymer (ts) Freddy Slack (p,arr) Roc Hillman (g) Jack Ryan (b) Ray McKinley (d) Bob Eberly (vcl).
New York, February 10, 1939

Que Tiempos Aquellos!

Musagete

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Them Olden Days.

Música:
Mildred Bailey & Her Orchestra
It Seems Like Old Times (1939)
VOCALION 4939

Mildred Bailey and her Orchestra: Mildred Bailey (vcl) acc. by Charlie Shavers (tp) Buster Bailey (cl) Russell Procope (as) Red Norvo (xyl) Billy Kyle (p) John Kirby (b) Cozy Cole (d). New York, June 14, 1939

Cuando en Roma...

Rome

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Haz como hacen los romanos. Dibujo filosófico.
When in Rome... Philosophical drawing.

Música:
Abe Lyman And His California Orch
Rome Wasn't Built In A Day (1933)
BRUNSWICK 6699

Soneto de papel higiénico

Toilet Paper Sonnet

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Música:
Jess Stacy & His Orch
It's Only A Paper Moon (1945)
V-DISC 539

Jess Stacy and his Orchestra: Billy Butterfield, Pee Wee Erwin, Anthony Natoli (tp) Will Bradley, Jack Satterfield (tb) Sal Franzella (cl) Hank Ross, Hymie Schertzer (as) Larry Binyon, Julius Bradley (ts) Jess Stacy (p) Frank Worrell (g) Bob Haggart (b) Mario Toscarelli (d) Lee Wiley (vcl). New York, June 29, 1945

Brisca

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Música:
Bessie Smith
Dying Gambler's Blues (1924)
(Jack Gee)
COLUMBIA 14051 D

Bessie Smith (vcl) acc by Charlie Green (tb) Fred Longshaw (p). New York, December 13, 1924

Chelonioidea & Reptilae

Quelonios y Reptiles

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Música:
Jelly Roll Morton Trio
Turtle Twist (1929)
(Morton)
BLUEBIRD 10194

Jelly Roll Morton Trio: Barney Bigard (cl) Jelly Roll Morton (p) Zutty Singleton (d).
New York, December 17, 1929

Cualquier dolor de cabeza...

Headache

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Música:
Fats Waller & His Rhythm
You Went To My Head (1938)
(Meyer-Bernier-Emmerich)
VICTOR 25812

Fats Waller and his Rhythm: Herman Autrey (tp) Gene Sedric (cl,ts) Fats Waller (p,vcl) Al Casey (g) Cedric Wallace (b) Slick Jones (d). New York, March 11, 1938

Ruedas

Wheels

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Música:

Una obra maestra de precisión armónica. Tatum no acompaña, toca duetos con los solistas. Bellísimo!
A masterpiece of harmonic precision. Tatum doesn't accompany, duets with the soloists. A true beaut!

Art Tatum and his Swingsters
I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm (1937)
DECCA 1198

Art Tatum and his Swingsters: Lloyd Reese (tp) Marshall Royal (cl) Art Tatum (p) Bill Perkins (g) Joe Bailey (b) Oscar Bradley (d). Los Angeles, Ca., February 26, 1937

Tristezas de un Doble A

Teddy

Lamento tener que comunicar la triste noticia del fallecimiento de Atilio "Teddy" Peiró. Humorista, Poeta, Malabarista y el mejor bandoneonista de Londres.
La familia tendrá un servicio fúnebre privado en Poole el próximo miércoles y en fecha próxima, aun a definir, se celebrará un "memorial" en Londres.

Para los que no lo supiesen, Teddy era el malabarista que Charlie Parker estaba mirando en la TV cuando murió. Al menos es a quien muestran en la película "Bird" de Clint Eastwood.

Aquí va un dibujo que le hice con las ilustraciones para su libro "Poemas Para Mi Fueye".

Chau, Teddy!

Oscar Grillo

Madame Yvonne

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Música:
Madame Yvonne (tango)
Solo de bandoneón en vídeo / Bandoneon solo video performance
Intérprete desconocido /Unknown player

Soiree

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Música:
Fred Astaire
Music Makes Me (1933)
COLUMBIA 2912 D

Swan Lake

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Música:
Chicago Black Swans
Don't Tear My Clothes #2 (1937)
CONQUEROR 8780

Chicago Black Swans: Big Bill Broonzy (g,vcl) acc. by Alfred "Mr. Sheiks" Bell (tp) Arnett Nelson or Odell Rand (cl) Black Bob (p) unknown 2nd g-1 and perc. Chicago, January 26, 1937

Pagina

Page 19

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Si queres leer un reportaje que me hicieron recientemente en España podes ir aqui:
Oscar.

Música:
Para mi esta es una de las mas hermosas grabaciones del Jazz. Sencillo y directo, como debe ser.
For me one of the greatests pieces of jazz ever recorded

George Lewis
Burgundy Street Blues
Good Time Jazz 99999b

Oklahoma

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Música:
Spade Cooley & His Orch
Oklahoma Stomp (1946)
(Soldi, DePaul, Cooley)
COLUMBIA 20573

Malón

La Indiada

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Raid

Música:
(dos piezas, una para cada guerrero)
(two pieces, one per each warrior)

Bud Powell Trio
Cherokee (1949)
(Ray Noble)
MERCURY 2199

Bud Powell Trio: Bud Powell (p) Ray Brown (b) Max Roach (d).
New York. May 1949.

Don Byas Quartet
Cherokee (1949)
(Ray Noble)
SAVOY 609B

Don Byas Quartet: Don Byas (ts) Teddy Brannon (p) Frank Skeete (b) Fred Radcliffe (d).
New York, May 17, 1946

Símbolos

Symbols

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Música:
Night Club Orchestra (Harry Reser)
I'm Gonna Dance Wit De Guy Wot Brung Me (1927)
HARMONY 473-H

The Seven Wild Men (Harmony´s issued as "Night Club Orchestra"): Red Nichols (tp) Sammy Lewis tb) Larry Abbott (cl,as) Norman Yorke (ts) Jimmy Johnston (bassax) Bill Wirges (p) Harry Reser (bj) Tom Stacks (d,vcl). (a very likely personnel)

Ay!

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Música:
Les Brown & His Orch
Mexican Hat Dance (1941)
OKEH 6697

Les Brown and his Orchestra: Eddie Bailey, Bob Thorne, Joe Bogart (tp) Warren Brown, Si Zentner (tb) Bob Fishel (tb) Les Brown (cl) Steve Madrick, Abe Most (as) Wolffe Tayne (ts) Henry "Butch" Stone (cl,as,bar) Billy Rowland (p) Joe Petroni (g) Charlie Green (b) Eddie Julian (d). New York, October 1941

Penal

Penalty

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In The Penal Colony

Música:
Erskine Hawkins & His Orch
Let The Punishment Fit The Crime (1939)
BLUEBIRD 10218

Erskine Hawkins and his 'Bama State Collegians: Erskine Hawkins, Wilbur Bascomb, Marcellus Green (tp) Sam Lowe (tp,arr) Edward Sims, Robert Range (tb) William Johnson (as,arr) Jimmy Mitchelle (as,vcl) Paul Bascomb (ts) Haywood Henry (bar) Avery Parrish (p) William McLemore (g) Leemie Stanfield (b) James Morrison (d). New York, July 20, 1936

Zufälligheit

Fortituidad

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Musik:
Leo Reisman & His Orch
You Will Remember Vienna (1930)
VICTOR 22512

Un dibujo del pasado

Lost Faith

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Un dibujo del pasado (2004) / A Golden Oldie

Música:
Chicago Black Swans
You Drink Too Much (1937)
CONQUEROR 8780

Chicago Black Swans: Big Bill Broonzy (g,vcl) acc. by Alfred "Mr. Sheiks" Bell (tp) Arnett Nelson or Odell Rand (cl) Black Bob (p) unknown 2nd g-1 and perc. The percussions sounds produced by tapping the body of the guitar. Chicago, January 26, 1937

Tráfico

Traffic

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Música:
Artie Shaw And His Orchestra
Traffic Jam (1939)
(Teddy McCrae-Artie Shaw)
BLUEBIRD B-10385-A

Artie Shaw and his Orchestra: John Best, Bernie Privin, Chuck Peterson (tp) George Arus, Les Jenkins (tb) Harry Rodgers (tb) Artie Shaw (cl) Les Robinson, Hank Freeman (as) Tony Pastor (ts) Georgie Auld (ts) Bob Kitsis (p) Al Avola (g) Sid Weiss (b) Buddy Rich (d) Teddy McCrae (arr). Hollywood, June 12, 1939

Padre

Letter

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K. escribe su famosa "Carta al Padre"

Música:
Bunny Berigan & His Orch
Father, Dear Father (1938)
(Joe McCarthy-Harry DeCosta)
VICTOR 26061A

Bunny Berigan and his Orchestra: Bunny Berigan, Irving Goodman, Steve Lipkins (tp) Ray Conniff, Nat Lobovsky (tb) George Bohn, Gus Bivona (as,cl) Georgie Auld, Clyde Rounds (ts) Joe Bushkin (p) Dick Wharton (g,vcl) Hank Wayland (b) Buddy Rich (d) Bernie McKay (vcl). New York, September 13, 1938

Chacales y Arabes

Jackals and Arabs

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Música:
V-DISC ALL STARS
The Sheik Of Araby (1944)
Hot Lips Page (tp,vcl)
V-DISC 418

Bobby Hackett (cnt) Hot Lips Page (tp,vcl) Lou McGarity, Jack Teagarden (tb) Ernie Caceres, Nick Caiazza (cl,ts) Johnny Guarnieri (p) Herbe Ellis (g) Al Hall (b) Specs Powell (d). New York, December 6, 1944

Postage

Franqueo

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K. Le envia una carta sin estampillas a Milena.
K. Posts a letter to Milena without a stamp.

Música:
Wisconsin Skyrockets
Postage Stomp (1928)
PARAMOUNT 12642

Jesse Cohen and his University of Wisconsin Skyrockets: Bunny Berigan ***(tp) Don Bonn (tp,cl,ts) Jesse Cohen (p) + others. Chicago, Ill., April 1928.
***Walter Bruyninckx informs in his famous discography that Bunny Berigan was in the recording, but there are many doubts -including denials- about that presence. el editor

Niños

Children

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- ¿Y por qué no duermen?
- Porque no están nunca cansados.
- ¿Y por qué no?
- Porque son tontos.
- ¿Y los tontos no se cansan?
- ¿Cómo van a cansarse los tontos?

"Niños en la carretera"- Franz Kafka, 1904
"Children on a country road"- Franz Kafka, 1904

Música:
The Lion
Send You Children To Orphan Home
DECCA 17284B

"...Most popular Calypso singer is The Lion (real name: Hubert Raphael Charles), a young black buck who was taken to Manhattan in 1936 by Ralph Perez, successively a Calypso specialist for Columbia and Decca. The Lion, however, proved the most censorable of the Calypsonians, all of whose records Mr. Perez must submit to British officials before they may be sold in Trinidad. The Lion's share of the 1937 carnival was his song Netty-Netty, voted the most popular by the public, but banned on the island. On sale in the U. S., its words are allegedly unprintable, and at all but a few points effectively inaudible, or in Caribbean patois. But verbal understanding is not necessary to convince hearers that it is a saga of a rollicking Trinidad wench".
More information here from Time on Monday, Aug. 29, 1938 !!!

Premonición

Premonition

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Música:
Jimmie Lunceford & His Orch
I Had A Premonition (1941)
DECCA 3718B

Jimmie Lunceford and his Orchestra: Gerald Wilson (tp) Snooky Young (tp) Paul Webster (tp) Elmer Crumbley, Russell Bowles (tb) Trummy Young (tb) Willie Smith (cl,as) Dan Grissom (cl,as,vcl) Jimmie Lunceford (as,arr) Ted Buckner (as) Joe Thomas (cl,ts,vcl) Earl Carruthers (cl,bar,as) Edwin Wilcox (p) Al Norris (g,vln) Moses Allen (b) Jimmy Crawford (d) Don Redman (arr). New York, March 26, 1941