Engrainage.

Tous les coups sont permis dans Battle Jazz Galactica, l'émission la plus sanglante et la plus proche de la vie de couple de la bande à FM à Paris. Sur Radio Campus, cette semaine, le Président et Greg de Villanova usent de toutes les ficelles avec l'intention évidente de faire monter l'autre au plafond. Le fin fond de leurs collections respectives remonte à la surface et ça fait mal.  Résultat, deux heures de disques vinyles déstabilisantes en diable.

🌎 Le Président and Greg de Villanova return to their FM vinyl duel with full-length jazz tracks and their usual Parisian sniping. This set jumps from Grant Green’s hard bop charge on “Grantstand” to Miles Davis, Art Blakey and Bud Powell, then outwards to Charles Mingus, Toshiko Akiyoshi and Ornette Coleman. Expect bebop, spiritual jazz, Afro-Cuban percussion and a few standards, all argued over between grooves.

1. Grantstand - Grant Green.
2. My Funny Valentine - Miles Davis.
3. Conversation Piece - Shamek Farrah & Sonelius Smith.
4. Fast Company - Don Sleet.
5. O.D. - Freddie Redd.
6. Moanin’ With Hazel - Art Blakey.
7. Smilin’ Billy Suite (Part2) - The Heath Brothers.
8. Cumbia & Jazz Fusion - Charles Mingus.
9. The Metal Melter - Milt Jackson.
10. Kelo - Toshiko Akiyoshi.
11. Un Poco Loco - Bud Powell.
12. Focus on Sanity - Ornette Coleman.
13. Afro Temple - Sabu Martinez.
14. Here’s that Rainy Day - Art Pepper.

📝 Al₃·☼-12↯Z, 16 September 2024(Planet number 12)

At dawn, canals reflect pink skies beneath clay-brick houses and hanging gardens. Spice sellers unload beside citrus barges; wartime requisitions leave commuters walking along the towpath.

Le Président claims their café table includes the shade. Greg de Villanova points out that the palm belongs to the next establishment. Neither moves his pastry.

Grant Green runs more house-building crews than anyone in the blue-seal cooperative. Today he carries bricks for somebody else, keeping a separate clay tally of the favours owed.

Above the terraced vineyards, Miles Davis disconnects his treadle-driven wine press and installs electric rollers. His neighbours bring inferior grapes to watch. He charges them the full pressing fee.

Shamek Farrah and Sonelius Smith hold their spiritual discussions beneath the spice market. During blackout hours, visitors follow the smell of cardamom downstairs, carrying questions and cushions.

Don Sleet engraves very few official seals under his own name. Collectors crowd his market stall, examining impressions in damp clay; he keeps the best example beneath his lunch.

Freddie Redd devises the changing smells for Jack Gelber’s courtyard play. Behind a reed screen, he warms orange peel and damp prison straw in separate pots, consulting a clay cue-tablet.

At the riverside café, Art Blakey asks the account keeper to use Abdullah Ibn Buhaina, his name since conversion. The keeper makes room by scraping away an unpaid breakfast.

Jimmy Heath, Percy Heath and Albert ‘Tootie’ Heath enter the brothers’ swimming race together. They practise in an irrigation canal while their mother guards three towels and disputes the handicapping.

Charles Mingus gathers neighbours around a courtyard cooking fire. His stuffed-citrus recipe fixes the quantities but leaves the fillings open; he tastes each experiment with somebody else’s spoon.

Milt Jackson’s deep blue glazes give the four-potters’ guild its recognisable tableware. In the clay workshop, he turns a bowl beneath the window, checking whether the colour survives the shade.

Toshiko Akiyoshi is among the first eastern-bank astronomers honoured by the capital’s academy. In the elder’s archive, she weighs down her star charts with the invitation; the damp curls everything.

Bud Powell’s right-handed reed strokes fill the school’s model tablets. At his kitchen table, three generations copy them while he reaches across their elbows for the pickled lemons.

Ornette Coleman’s marriage handbook replaces prescribed vows with questions couples answer on the spot. Beneath the courtyard palms, a bride asks whether separate breakfast budgets count as a religious objection.

Island-born Sabu Martinez works with Art Blakey at the public baths, introducing island steam treatments. He bruises aromatic leaves with a brick while the attendants argue over whose turn comes first.

Art Pepper returns to the riverside café after prison and treatment for resin addiction. He orders two apricot pastries, then shifts his chair to inspect the larger one.

Eat something.

BATTLE JAZZ GALACTICA

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