Jazzuela is the fusion of jazz and Hopscotch; the masterpiece of the Argentine writer Julio Cortázar. With this title it has been tried to indicate the importance that jazz has in his novel. For Cortázar, jazz symbolizes freedom; Spontaneity; the negation of any structure and Hopscotch follows this scheme; since the author suggests several reading proposals so that we can choose freely. So the narration; with its advances and setbacks; resembles a jazz improvisation in which Dizzy Gillespie; Bix Beiderbecke; Louis Armstrong; Bessie Smith; Coleman Hawkins; Franck Trumbauer; Lionel Hampton; Big Bill Broonzy; Duke Ellington; Kansas City Six and so many others join us on the reading journey.
Tracks:
LP1
1. Franck Trumbauer And His Orchestra: I'm Coming Virginia
2. Bix Beiderbecke And His Gang: Jazz Me Blues
3. The Kansas City Six: Four O'clock Drag
4. Lionel Hampton And His Orchestra: Save It Pretty Mamma
5. Coleman Hawkins And His Orchestra: Body And Soul
6. Dizzy Gillespie And His Orchestra: Good Bait
7. Bessie Smith: Baby Doll
8. Bessie Smith: Empty Bed Blues
9. Louis Armstrong And His Orchestra: Don't You Play Me Cheap
10. Louis Armstrong's All Stars: Yellow Dog Blues
LP2
1. Louis Armstrong's All Stars: Mahogany Hall Stomp
2. Big Bill Broonzy: See See Rider
3. The Chocolate Dandies: Blue Interlude
4. Champion Jack Dupree: Junker's Blues
5. Big Bill Broonzy: Get Back
6. Duke Ellington And His Orchestra: Hot And Bothered
7. Duke Ellington And His Orchestra: It Don't Mean A Thing
8. Earl Hines: I Ain't Got Nobody
9. Jelly Roll Morton: Mamie's Blues
10. Waring's Pennsylvanians: Stack O'lee Blues
11. Oscar Peterson: Oscar's Blues
