Niñez

Childhood

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From 2009

Música:
Ivie Anderson and her Boys from Dixie
All God's chillun' got rhythm  (1937)
Variety 591

Ivie Anderson and her Boys from Dixie (in fact the Duke Ellington Orchestra): Ivie Anderson (vcl) acc. by Rex Stewart (cnt) Wallace Jones, Cootie Williams (tp) Joe Nanton, Juan Tizol, Lawrence Brown (tb) Barney Bigard (cl,as) Otto Hardwick (as, bassax) Johnny Hodges (as,sop) Harry Carney (bar,cl) Duke Ellington (p) Billy Taylor (b) Sonny Greer (d)  Rex Stewart, Harry Carney, Hayes Alvis (vcl trio). New York, June 8, 1937

Marechiare

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Quanno spónta la Luna a Marechiare

Música:
Claudio Villa
Marechiare

I am coming, Virginia

The road to Damascus

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Música:  (Bix plays here a majestic solo, real beauty, it sounds like a prayer )
Frankie Trumbauer Orchestra
I'm coming, Virginia  (1927)
Okeh 4084

Frankie Trumbauer Orchestra: Bix Beiderbecke (cnt) Bill Rank (tb) Frankie Trumbauer (c-mel) Jimmy Dorsey (cl,as) Doc Ryker (as) Irving Riskin (p,arr) Eddie Lang (g) Chauncey Morehouse (d). New York, May 13, 1927

Escena callejera

Street scene

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Música:
Chet Baker (trumpet solo)
Smog  (1962)
from the 1962's Franco Rossi movie "Smog" with music composed by Piero Umiliani

Futurism

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Música:Luigi Russolo
Veglio di una città  (1913)
(from "Die Kunst der Geräusche")

Bonus track:
Pierre Boulez
La symphonie mécanique  (1955)
(musique concrète for a film by Jean Mitry)

Buitre

Buzzard

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Música:
Bud Freeman and his Windy City Five
The buzzard  (1935)
Decca 18112B

Bud Freeman and his Windy City Five: Bunny Berigan (tp) Bud Freeman (cl,ts) Claude Thornhill (p) Eddie Condon (g) Grachan Moncur (b) Cozy Cole (d). New York, December 4, 1935

Los hijos del desierto

Sons of the desert

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Música:
Laurel & Hardy
Honolulu baby  (1933)
from the 1933's William A. Seiter movie "Sons of the desert" starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy

Bonus track:
Laurel & Hardy
On the trail of the lonesome pine (1937) [*]
from the 1937's James W. Horne movie "Way out West" starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy

[*] At the end of the song, Stan Laurel's voice switches to a deep bass and then a high falsetto. These parts were dubbed by two of his co-stars, Chill Wills and Rosina Lawrenc.

Pegaso

Pegasus

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

Astor Piazzolla (band, comp,dir) Martial Solal (p) Orquesta de Cuerdas de París. Paris, 1955.

Le Cowboy D'Avignon

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Música:
Axel and Raymond
Sur le Pont d'Avignon (Traditional French)

Perro decapitado

Headless dog

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Hoy tengo mucha fiaca para "scannear" un dibujo., aquí va la foto de un perro sin cabeza que saqué hace un par de días. La parte borrosa de la foto es una gota de lluvia que cayó en el lente. Oscar

I am to lazy to scan a drawing today, here is a photo of a headless dog I took few days ago. The fuzzy bit is a drop of rain in the lens of the camera. Oscar

Música:
Teddy Wilson
You go to my head (1953)
Clef MGC156

Teddy Wilson (p). New York, September 8, 1953