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An ongoing series celebrating musicians' birthdays.

23 November 1876: Manuel de Falla's El Amor Brujo filmed as part of Carlos Saura's classic film dance trilogy.

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26 November 1931: Tina Turner with husband Ike and backing singers the Ikettes perform Phil Spector's "symphony for the kids", "River Deep, Mountain High". Its relative lack of success in the States was, according to many, one reason he lost his grip on reality. Distorted but divine.

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25 November 1924: Paul Desmond plays the most famous sax solo in jazz - live, in a different way to the record. That's jazz for you.

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27 November 1932: The underrated torch singer Ethel Ennis sings "I've got that Feeling" for one of the classic Scopitone videos in 1961.

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24 November 1912: The great jazz pianist Teddy Wilson was a member of the first mixed-race jazz band to be accepted as a perfoming unit. The Obama of jazz?

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26 November 1979: American violinist Hilary Hahn plays Bach's Violin Concerto No 2.

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24 November 1970: Julieta Venegas, one of the best Mexican-American pop stars, sings "Eres Para Ti".

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