En la calle Ayacucho

In Ayacucho Street

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Música: (en video)
Carlos Gardel
El bulín de la calle Ayacucho

Máscara que fuma

Smoking mask

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Música:
Thelonious Monk Quintet
Smoke gets in your eyes (1954)
Prestige PRLP180

Thelonious Monk Quintet: Ray Copeland (tp) Frank Foster (ts) Thelonious Monk (p) Curly Russell (b) Art Blakey (d). Hackensack, N.J., May 11, 1954

Im dickicht der städte

En la jungla de las ciudades (In the jungle of the cities)

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Música:
Goldman Band
With trumpet and drums
V-Disk 42A1

Le Temps des Cerises

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Música:
Ornette Coleman
Tears inside (1959)
Contemporary M3569

Don Cherry (tp) Ornette Coleman (as) Percy Heath (b) Shelly Manne (d). Los Angeles, Ca., March 9-10, 1959

Swimmin' with the wimmin'

Nadando con las mujeres

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Música: (en video)
George Formby
Swimmin' With The Wimmin' (1933)

Blue and sentimental

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Música:
Don Byas Quartet
Blue and sentimental (1947)
Swing (F)267

Don Byas Quartet: Don Byas (ts) Billy Taylor (p) Jean Bouchety (b) Buford Oliver (d). Paris, January 6, 1947

Abuelita

Grandma

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De vez en cuando me gusta dibujar así para acordarme de cuando era un animador.

Música:
Six Jumping Jacks
How could Red riding Hood? (Have been so very good)? (1926)
Brunswick 3254

Happy hour

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Música:
Benny Goodman Trio
After hours (1947)
Capitol 15888

Benny Goodman Trio: Benny Goodman (cl) Teddy Wilson (p) Jimmy Crawford (d). New York, November 7, 1947

La Sagrada Familia

The Holy Family

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Música:
Carter Family
Worried man blues (1930)
Victor 40317

The Milonga of Troilus & Cressida

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Música: (en video)
Milonga de Manuel Flores
(Anibal Troilo & Jorge Luis Borges)
recited by Lito Cruz
From the movie "Invasión" [1969] directed by Hugo Santiago Muchnik

Bikini

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Música: (en video)
Brian Hyland
Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini

Cool tango

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Música:
Chet Baker
Rondette (1955)
Barclay (F)BLP83009

Chet Baker (tp) Richard Twardzik (p) Jimmy Bond (b) Peter Littman (d). Paris, October 11, 1955

La rima del anciano marinero

The rhyme of the ancient mariner

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Música:
Ted Fio Rito and his Orchestra
Soft green seas (1932-36)
Sunbeam HB314

Ted Fio Rito and his Orchestra: no details. New York, 1932-36

Tempus fugit

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Música:
Miles Davis All Stars
Tempus fugit (1953)
Blue Note BLP502

Miles Davis All Stars: Miles Davis (tp) Jay Jay Johnson (tb) Jimmy Heath (ts) Gil Coggins (p) Percy Heath (b) Art Blakey (d). New York, April 20, 1953

Shakespeare and Marlowe

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Shakespeare & Marlowe (Christopher Marlowe, naturally)

Música:
Louis Prima and his New Orleans Gang
Fifty-Second Street (1937)
Vocalion 3506

Louis Prima and his New Orleans Gang: Louis Prima (tp,vcl) Meyer Weinberg (cl) George Moore (as) Joe Catalyne (ts) Frank Pinero (p) Garry McAdams (g) Sherman Masinter (b) Oscar Bradley (d,vib). Los Angeles, March 20, 1937

The joint is jumpin'

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Música:
Fats Waller and his Rhythmn
The joint is jumpin' (1937)
Victor 25689

Fats Waller and his Rhythmn: Herman Autrey (tp) Gene Sedric (cl,as) Fats Waller (p,vcl) Al Casey (g) Charles Turner (b) Slick Jones (d,vib). New York, October 7, 1937

Aves de rapiña

Birds of prey

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Música:
Jay Jay Johnson's Be-Boppers
Jay Bird [Fly Jay] (1946)
Savoy SJL2232

Jay Jay Johnson's Be-Boppers: Jay Jay Johnson (tb) Cecil Payne (as) Bud Powell (p) Leonard Gaskin (b) Max Roach (d). New York, June 26, 1946

Sabre

Sable

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Sable... (Dibujo experimental. Lo dibujé MUY CHIQUITO y lo agrandé y coloreé con Photoshop)
Sabre... (Experimental drawing. I drew this VERY SMALL and enlarged and colourised it with Photoshop)

Música:
Andrews Sister
Sabre dance (1948)
Decca 24427

Far West

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Me acaban de informar que Jean Giraud (Moebius) ha muerto. ¡Honor y admiración para el gran maestro!.
Oscar

I just been informed that the artist Jean Giraud (Moebius) has died. Honour and admiration for the great master!.
Oscar

Tea party

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Música:
Benny Goodman and his Orchestra
Texas tea party (1933)
Columbia 2845-D

Benny Goodman and his Orchestra: Charlie Teagarden, Mannie Klein (tp) Jack Teagarden (tb,vcl) Benny Goodman (cl) Art Karle (ts) Frank Froeba (p) Dick McDonough (g) Artie Bernstein (b) Gene Krupa (d) Arthur Schutt (arr). New York, October 27, 1933

Blackfaced minstrel

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Música:
Georgia Minstrel Co.
Minstrels: First Part, No. 5 (1901)
Victor 3039

Zapato

One shoe

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Música:
Art Pepper plus Eleven
Walkin' shoes (1959)
Contemporary M3568

Art Pepper plus Eleven: Pete Candoli, Jack Sheldon (tp) Dick Nash (tb) Bob Enevoldsen (v-tb) Vince DeRosa (fhr) Art Pepper (as) Herb Geller (as) Bill Perkins (ts) Med Flory (bar) Russ Freeman (p) Joe Mondragon (b) Mel Lewis (d) Marty Paich (arr,cond). Los Angeles, March 14, 1959

Abuelo leyendo

Grandpa reading

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Música:
Woody Herman and his Orchestra
Summer sequence pt 4 (1947)
Columbia 38367

Woody Herman and his Orchestra: Stan Fishelson, Bernie Glow, Marky Markowitz, Ernie Royal (tp) Shorty Rogers (tp) Earl Swope, Ollie Wilson (tb) Bob Swift (b-tb) Woody Herman (cl,as) Sam Marowitz (as) Herbie Steward (as,ts) Stan Getz, Zoot Sims (ts) Serge Chaloff (bar) Ralph Burns (p,arr) Gene Sargent (g) Walt Yoder (b) Don Lamond (d). Hollywood, December 24, 1947

Abuelo y nieta

Grandpa and grandaughter

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Música:
Joe Sullivan
Just strolling (1935)
Decca 600

Joe Sullivan (p) solo. Los Angeles, August 8, 1935

Abuelo

Grandpa

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Música:
Jelly Roll Morton
Grandpa's spells (1923)
Gennet 5218

Jelly Roll Morton (p) solo. Richmondt, Ind., July 18, 1923

Impromptu

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Música:
Lester Young and his Band
S.M. blues (1946)
Aladdin 162

Lester Young and his Band: Shorty McConnell (tp) Lester Young (ts) Argonne Thornton (p) Fred Lacey (g) Rodney Richardson (b) Lyndell Marshall (d). Chicago, IL., c. October 1946

En King's Road

On the King's Road

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Música:
Duke Ellington and his Famous Orchestra
Chelsea Bridge (1941)
Victor 27740

Duke Ellington and his Famous Orchestra: Rex Stewart (cnt) Wallace Jones (tp) Ray Nance (tp,vln) Joe Nanton, Lawrence Brown (tb) Juan Tizol (v-tb) Barney Bigard (cl) Johnny Hodges (as,sop,cl) Otto Hardwick (as,bassax) Ben Webster (ts) Harry Carney (bar,as,cl) Billy Strayhorn (p) Fred Guy (g) Junior Raglin (b) Sonny Greer (d). Hollywood, Ca., December 2, 1941

La vida es una milonga

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Música: (video)
Anibal Troilo y su Orquesta
canta Francisco Fiorentino
Pa' que bailen los muchachos (1942)

Allá en "La Boca"

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In "La Boca" (A district of Buenos Aires)

Música:
Bessie Smith
There'll be a hot time in the old town tonight (1927)
Columbia 14219-D

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