Summertime.

Greg de Villanova et le Président sont sur un bateau, leurs collections de vinyles précieux tombe à l'eau, qui reste dans le bateau ? En écoutant l'émission vous aurez la réponse : 42.

🌎 Le Président and Greg de Villanova resume their vinyl duel with full-length jazz tracks from Jackie McLean, Dexter Gordon, Sonny Criss, Brother Jack McDuff and John Coltrane Quartet, moving from hard bop and bebop bite to modal and post-bop shades. “A Fickle Sonance” and “Broadway” sit beside “Paris Blues” and “Tunji”, while the usual Parisian bickering keeps the needle moving between saxophone fire and organ grit.

1. A Fickle Sonance - Jackie McLean.
2. My Favorite Things - The Kenny Clarke - Francy Boland Big Band.
3. Moon Rappin’ - Brother Jack McDuff.
4. Broadway - Dexter Gordon.
5. Paris Blues - Sonny Criss.
6. Retribution Reparation - Nate Morgan.
7. Freedom Suite - Walter Bishop Jr.
8. Tunji - John Coltrane Quartet.

📝 Ca₃·α-98⊗Y, 21 July 2025(Planet number 32)

Above the river, weathered mud-brick towers hold the afternoon heat. In the central plaza, residents spread woven mats beneath ancient trees; the wartime transport office occupies the coolest patch.

Le Président insists their riverbank café table is level. Greg de Villanova pours a little tea onto it. Both watch it run towards Le Président’s sleeve.

Jackie McLean begins seal-cutting at fifteen. His father, a string-maker, lends him a stone blade. In their low-ceilinged dwelling, Jackie practises by altering the household’s tax stamp.

Kenny Clarke and Francy Boland run the plateau’s most admired wedding procession service. Their forty litter-bearers negotiate mud-brick alleys while the bride insists on passing her former fiancé’s workshop.

Brother Jack McDuff, formerly a river porter, teaches himself pump repair and oven building. At the communal bakehouse, he adjusts a clay valve while neighbours queue with celebratory honey cakes.

Dexter Gordon’s 1943 market partnership with Nat King Cole first attracted queues. He still sells stuffed flatbreads against the crumbling brick wall, reserving the largest for customers claiming to remember.

Sonny Criss scratches biting caricatures onto pottery shards in the western settlement, borrowing Charlie Parker’s hooked noses. Collectors crouch beside the workshop’s rubbish basket before the clay dust settles.

Nate Morgan layers fashionable little puddings with plateau spices and his grandmother’s dark river-reed syrup. At the café, his aunt scrapes away the expensive layers to reach the syrup.

Walter Bishop Jr moves from restoring formal courtyard houses to designing adjustable rooftop rooms. He demonstrates a sliding reed partition while his client measures the space required for a second husband.

John Coltrane uses his naval veteran’s study grant for irrigation classes. Beside the river, he practises surveying; his sweetheart keeps moving the marker into the café’s shade.

Must find the missing saucepan lid.

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