Schtonk

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Música:
Esquire All Americans Winners
Blow me down (1946)
Victor 40-0134

Esquire All Americans Winners: Charlie Shavers, Buck Clayton (tp) J.J. Johnson (tb) Coleman Hawkins (ts) Harry Carney (bar) Teddy Wilson (p) John Collins (g) Chubby Jackson (b) Shadow Wilson (d). New York, December 4, 1946

Pasion tanguera

Tango's passion

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Música:
Marion Harris
He's my secret passion (1930)
(Arthur Young-V.Valentine)
Brunswick 6016

Musica acústica

Acoustic music

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Música:
Slim Gaillard and his Flat Foot Floogie Boys
Bassology (1941)
Okeh 6295

Slim Gaillard and his Flat Foot Floogie Boys: Loumell Morgan (p) Slim Gaillard (g,vcl) Slam Stewart (b) Kenny Clarke (d). New York, March 11, 1941
Okeh 6295

Bonas Truck:
Bud Richie and his Boys
Slappin' the bass (1930)
Champ 16109

Bud Richie and his Boys: except Richard Barry (vcl) no details. Unknown tp, cl/as, ts, p, g, b, d. Richmond, Indiana, October 10, 1930

Men

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Música:
Bing Crosby
Gay love (1929)
(Clare-Levant)
Columbia 2001 D

Bing Crosby with small group from Paul Whiteman´s Orchestra: Bing Crosby (vcl) Charlie Margulis (tp) Chester Hazlett (cl) Roy Bargy (p) Matt Malneck (vln) plus other unidentified strings. New York, September 27, 1929

Cigarro

Cigar

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Música:
Bunny Berigan and his Orchestra
Let's have another cigarette (1937)
Victor 25609

Bunny Berigan and his Orchestra: Bunny Berigan, Irving Goodman, Steve Lipkins (tp) Morey Samuels, Sonny Lee (tb) Joe Dixon, Sid Pearlmutter (as,cl) Clyde Rounds, Georgie Auld (ts) Joe Lippman (p) Tom Morgan (g) Arnold Fishkind (b) George Wettling (d) Ruth Bradley (vcl).
New York, June 18, 1937

Unsavoury characters

Noir

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Gente sospechosa

Música:
Abe Lyman and his Orchestra
Doin' The Uptown Lowdown (1933)
(Duke Ellington)
Brunswick 6674

Abe Lyman and his Orchestra: Vocal chorus by Ella Logan. New York, October 12, 1933

Sueño de gatos

Cat's dream

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Acabo de dibujar esto para la revista literaria "Cuadernos del Tábano"

I just finished this drawing for a literary magazine illustrating a poem by Pablo Neruda: "Cat's Dream".

Música:
Ella Fitzgerald
Dream a little longer (1949)
Decca 24900

Ella Fitzgerald acc by Gordon Jenkins' Orchestra: Ella Fitzgerald (vcl) with unknown acc except for Gordon Jenkins (dir) and unknown vcl group. New York, September 21, 1949

De un sueño

From a dream

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De un sueño: (Soñé que estaba en el teatro viendo esta obra)
From a dream: (A scene from "The cry of the cattle drivers", The entrance of His Eminence).
I dreamed I was in the theatre watching this play.

Música:
The Dorsey Brothers' Concert Orchestra
Was it a dream? (pt 1) (1928)
(Coslow/Speir/Britt)
Okeh 41083

The Dorsey Brothers' Concert Orchestra: Leo McConville, Fuzzy Farrar, Mickey Bloom, Mannie Klein (tp) Tommy Dorsey, Carl Loffler (tb) Jimmy Dorsey (cl,as) Max Farley (as,fl) Arnold Brilhart (as) Bill Green (ts) Al Duffy, Leo Kruczek + 2 unknown (vln) Charles Dondron (vib) Arthur Schutt (p) Jack Hansen (tu) Jimmy Mullen (b) Smith Ballew (vcl) Hal Kemp, Nye Mayhew, Saxie Dowell, Skinny Ennies (vcl quartet) George Crozier (arr). New York, July 16, 1928

Otra cosa es con guitarra

Guitar

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Música:
Quintette du Hot Club de France
Avalon (1935)
(Jolson/Rose/DeSylva)
Ultraphone (F)AP-1512

Quintette du Hot Club de France: Stéphane Grappelly (vln) Django Reinhardt, Pierre "Baro" Ferret, Joseph Reinhardt (g) Louis Vola (b). Additional musicians: Arthur Briggs (tp solo) Alphonse Cox, Pierre Allier (tp) Eugène d'Hellemmes (tb). Paris, late June 1935

Flautista

Flautist

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Flutist or Flautist?
In Nancy Toff's essential The Flute Book, she explains that the term flautist is associated with the negative connotations derived from the Latin verb, flaut which means to jeer or mock, which "apparently derives its meaning from the practice of playing a flute to ridicule."
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the term flautist did not appear in English until 1860, when Nathaniel Hawthorne used it in The Marble Faun. ("The flautist poured his breath in quick puffs of jollity") The frequent use of the word flautist is probably inspired by the Italian terminology, flauto which pervades musical scores. Significantly, Hawthorne had lived in Italy for a yeard and a half before he wrote The Marble Faun.
The Oxford English Dictionary states that the word flutist (1603) is a much older established word than flautist (1860). Since the English term flute is related to the modern French flûte, it follows therefore that the player of that instrument would be a flutist.
Toff pleads calling her a flute player, or even fluter, a term coined by Saumuel Pepys. (His diary entry for June 21, 1666 notes, "I saw...a picture of a fluter playing on his flute.") Flutist, fluter, or flute-player...but please, not flautist!

Toff, Nancy. The Flute Book.
Oxford University Press, Inc. New York: 1996.

Música:
The Kentucky Jug Band
Hard Hustlin' Blues (1930)
Vocalion 1564

The Kentucky Jug Band (a pseudonym for the Philips Louisville Jug Band): George "Hooks" Tilford (c-mel sax) Charles "Cane" Adams (cane-fl) Phil Phillips (g) Carl "Jug" Reid (jug ,scat vcl,jazzhorn). Chicago, August 1930