Rey sentado

Seated King

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Música: (video)
B.B. King
Blue boys tune
From the TV Series "The Blues": Season 1, Episode 3 "The Road to Memphis" (30 Sep. 2003)
Directed by: Richard Pearce

Unión perversa

Perverse union

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Música:
Miles Davis Sextet
The serpent's tooth  (1953)
Prestige LP7044

Miles Davis Sextet: Miles Davis (tp) Sonny Rollins, Charlie Parker (ts) Walter Bishop (p) Percy Heath (b) Philly Joe Jones (d). New York, January 30, 1953

Reicillo y Espejo

Kinghi and Mirror

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Música:
Joe Henderson
Mirror, mirror  (1980)
MPS (G)68255
 
Joe Henderson (ts) Chick Corea (p) Ron Carter (b) Billy Higgins (d). Los Angeles, January 1980

Rey enmascarado.

Masked King

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Música:
Enzo Jannaci
Ho visto un re  [I've seen a king] (1968)
ARC

El Rey Canuto

King Cnut (Knútr inn ríki, or Knut the great, or Canute)

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Música: (video)
Nat "King" Cole
Tea for two  (1957)

Nat "King" Cole (p) Nelson Riddle and his Orchestra. The Nat King Cole Show, Season 1, Show # 15, aired February 11,1957. 

Bonus track:

Variations on Vincent Youman's "Tea for Two"  (1926)

orchestrated  by Dmitri Shostakovich.

Rey aullante

Screaming King

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Música:
King Oliver
New Orleans shout  (1929)
Victor 23388

King Oliver (tp) prob Dave Nelson (tp) Jimmy Archey (tb) Glyn Paque (as) prob Charles H. Frazier (tb) Don Frye (p) prob Arthur Taylor (bj) unknown (g)  prob Clinton Walker (tu) prob Edmund Jones (d). New York, December 30, 1929

A la luz de las estrellas

By starlight

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Música:
Miles Davis Quintet
Stella by starlight  (1964)
Columbia CL2306

Miles Davis Quintet: Miles Davis (tp) George Coleman (ts) Herbie Hancock (p) Ron Carter (b) Tony Williams (d). Live, "Philarmonic Hall", New York, February 12, 1964

El día del juicio

Day of reckoning

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Música:
Gavin Barras Quintet
Day of reckoning  (2012)
ASC Records

Gavin Barras Quintet: Ed Jones (ts), Corey Mwamba (vib) Steve Plews (p) Gavin Barras (b) Dave Walsh (d). London (UK) January 2012.

Kriminal Tango

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Música:
Fred Buscaglione
Kriminal Tango (195?)

Tomados de la mano

Holding hands

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Música: (video)
Peggy Lee and Frank Sinatra
Nice work if you can get it  (1957)
(music by George Gershwin, lyrics by Ira Gershwin)

Peggy Lee, Frank Sinatra (vcl). The Frank Sinatra Show. Season 1, Episode 4. Aired: November 8, 1957

En bicicleta

Á bicyclette

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Música:
Yves Montand
Á bicyclette (1968)
(lyr. by Pierre Barouh, mus. by Francis Lai)

Pobre Mariposa

Poor Butterfly

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Música:
Cannonball Adderley
Poor Butterfly  (1959)
Riverside RLP12-303

Cannonball Adderley (as) Wynton Kelly (p) Percy Heath (b) Albert "Tootie" Heath. New York, May 12, 1959

Le Chat D'Avignon

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Música:
Astor Piazzolla (con Martial Solal y Orquesta de Cuerdas)
Picasso  (1955)

Astor Piazzolla (band), Martial Solal (p), cuerdas de la Orquesta de Opera de París. París, 1955.
 

Desnudez en el lejano oeste

Nudity in the Far West

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Música:
Sonny Rollins Trio
I'm an old cowhand  (1957)
Contemporary C3530

Sonny Rollins Trio: Sonny Rollins (ts) Ray Brown (b) Shelly Manne (d). Los Angeles, March 7, 1957

¿Es verdad que la pluma es más poderosa que la espada?

Is it true that the pen is mightier that the sword?

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Música: (video)
Liberace
Sabre Dance  (1950's)
from the final act of the ballet Gayane comp. by Aram Khachaturian

Liberace (p), unidentifed rest. Unknow arranger. (ca. 1950's)

If you knew Susie

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Música:
Eddie Cantor
If you knew Susie [Like I know Susie!]  (1925)

Por el camino

On the road

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Música:
Nino Rota's original music (soundtrack) Federico Fellini's film
La strada  (1954)
Franco Ferrara (musical director)

Circo Burocrático

Bureaucratic Circus

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Música: (video)
Beloit College Orchestra
The Bureaucrat (Polka) [2nd. mov.]
1931 Dmitri Shostakovich's "The Bolt" Suite from ballet

Atardecer de un día de día de perros

Dog's day afternoon

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Música:
Freddie Keppard's Jazz Cardinals
Salty dog   (1926)
Paramount 12399

Freddie Keppard's Jazz Cardinals: Freddie Keppard (cnt) Eddie Vincent (tb) Johnny Dodds (cl) Arthur Campbell (p) Jasper Taylor (woodblocks) Papa Charlie Jackson (vcl). Chicago, September 1926

Doce vueltas

Twelve rounds

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Música:
Mike Markel's Orchestra
Black horse stomp  (1926)
Columbia 617-D

Mike Markel's Orchestra: 2 unknown tp prob. Earl Oliver, prob. Red Nichols (tp) Miff Mole (tb) Phil Cole (cl,sop,as) unknown (cl,sop,as,bar) unknown (cl,ts) sometimes (vln) added, Mike Markel (p,ldr) unknown bj, d. New York, February 23, 1926

Taxi-Dance

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Música:
From the Gwen Verdon's record "Sweet Charity"
Musical Comedy (1966 Original Broadway Cast)
Big spender [instrumental]  (1966)
(composed by Cy Coleman)
Columbia Masterworks ‎– KOS 2900

Peticionario

Petitioner

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Música: (video)
Anachronic Jazz Band
Ask me know  (1977)
(comp. by Thelonious Monk)

Anachronic Jazz Band: Patrick Artero (tp) Daniel Barda (tb) Marc Richard (as) André Villéger (ts) Daniel Huck (as) Philippe Baudoin (p) Patrick Diaz (banjo) Gérard Gervois (tub) Bernard Laye (d). La Grande Parade du Jazz, Nice, July 16, 1977

Tangos ilustrados sin ceremonia: "Sur"

Unceremoniously illustrated tangos: "South"

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Música:
Juilo Sosa con la orquesta de Luis Caruso
Sur  (1948)
(Música: Anibal Troilo Letra: Homero Manzi)
Sondor 5157

Julio Sosa (vcl). Luis Caruso y su Orquesta. Montevideo, Uruguay 25 de Junio de 1948.

Acuarela

Watercolour

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Música: (video)
Toquinho
Aquarela  (2008)

El hambre viene comiendo

Eating you open an appetite.

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Música:
Slim Gaillard
Slim's jam (1945)
BelTone 761

Dizzy Gillespie (tp) Charlie Parker (as) Jack McVea (ts) Dodo Marmarosa (p) Slim Gaillard (g,vcl) Bam Brown (b,vcl) Zutty Singleton (d). Hollywood, Ca., c. December 29, 1945

Rulito

Kiss curl

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Música:
Annette Hanshaw
Under the moon  (1927)
Pathé Actuelle 32275

Annette Hanshaw (vcl) Adrian Rollini (bassax,goofus,p,celeste) Joe Venuti (vln) Eddie Lang (g) Vic Berton (d,chimes). New York, June 1927

Alicia y su hermana a la orilla del río

Alice and her sister by the river

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Música:
Bill Evans Trio
Alice in Wonderland [take 2]  (1961)
Riverside RLP376

Bill Evans Trio: Bill Evans (p) Scott La Faro (b) Paul Motian (d). Live, "Village Vanguard", New York, June 25, 1961

El bulín

The pad

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Música:
Ferrante & Teicher
Theme song of the Billy Wilder's 1960 movie "The apartment"
Jealous lover (1960)
Charles Williams (composer)
UAS 612

Arthur Ferrante and Louis Teicher (pianos) uncredited orchestra arranged by Don Costa. 

John Williams (no relation with Charles Williams) was the piano soloist, orchestrator and uncredited in the original film recording.