Poivres.

Le Président emploie les grands moyens pour faire sortir Greg de Villanova de ses gonds. Il lui agite sous le nez le meilleur du rare, les tracks les plus salés d’un seul et même artiste… toujours au saxophone. Les réponses fusent. Et elles sont bonnes. Parce que quand la West Coast met la pression, Greg fouille profond, il ressort ses vinyles les plus suspects… et parfois, c’est du génie.

🌎 Your favorite podcast sets up a sly duel between Art Pepper and Freddie Hubbard, with full-length jazz tracks, on vinyl, and the usual Parisian backchat from Le Président and Greg de Villanova. Pepper’s West Coast cool gets roughened by history on “Nature Boy” and “Mambo Koyama”; Hubbard’s hard bop bite lands on “Little Sunflower” and “Backlash”. Add John Coltrane, Michel Sardaby and Herbie Mann, and you’ve got bebop, post-bop and a few very public side-swipes.

1. You’d Be So Nice To Come Home To - Art Pepper.
2. Summertime - John Coltrane.
3. Walkin’Out Blues - Art Pepper.
4. Little Sunflower - Freddie Hubbard.
5. Too Close For Comfort - Art Pepper.
6. Backlash - Freddie Hubbard.
7. Opus de Funk - Art Pepper.
8. Nile Voyage - Michel Sardaby.
9. The Summer Knows - Art Pepper.
10. Cone Alma - Clarke-Boland Sextet.
11. No Limit (Live At The Village Vanguard) - Art Pepper.
12. Footprints - Herbie Mann.
13. Nature Boy - Art Pepper.
14. Ping Pong - Art Blakey & The Jazz Messenger.
15. Mambo Koyama - Art Pepper.

📝 Xa₃·Ϟ-22⋮Z, 21 April 2025(Planet number 26)

Blue weed lights the submerged stairways between coral houses. Beneath bull frescoes and tapering red columns, shoppers tether their baskets; the upper current remains closed because of the war.

Le Président claims their hired ray refuses passengers wearing coral buckles. Greg de Villanova removes his; the animal eats the booking slip instead. They continue disputing responsibility beside the marketplace mooring.

Art Pepper, still a teenager, joins Stan Kenton’s reef-survey crew. His route through the submerged palace appears on public charts; at the Coral Marketplace, he requests his apprentice discount.

John Coltrane died at forty, leaving cupboards of inventions. In his workshop, apprentice plumbers attempt his notorious stepped-pressure puzzle, wagering candied anemones on which valve opens next.

Pepper examines the 1952 readers’ poll outside the shell-carvers’ guild: second to Charlie Parker. He moves a strand of luminous weed away from his own name.

Freddie Hubbard demonstrates his pressure syringe, equally effective on thick-skinned pack rays and experimental translucent pets. A customer’s miniature cuttlefish inflates inside its coral carrying cage.

With scarcely a rehearsal, Pepper prepares a wedding supper alongside Miles Davis’s regular kitchen crew. In the amphitheatre’s flooded service alcove, he consults the pastry cook about anchoring a jelly.

Hubbard, once an apprentice in Art Blakey’s courier service, now sells red-clay bathing paste. Customers coat themselves beneath the garden’s warm vents, leaving handprints on the ration notice.

Addiction and repeated prison terms interrupt Pepper’s carving business. At the quarry visiting grille, he measures his niece’s finger with eelgrass; she specifies an engagement ring considerably larger than necessary.

Michel Sardaby, born off Martinique, inspects parcels at the European current terminal. Travellers recognise the shipping broker and ask after cousins; he weighs their luggage without interrupting the family news.

Pepper and Laurie Pepper correct proofs of their candid memoir beside the forgotten fountain. Laurie restores a deleted passage while he scrapes algae from the reading lens.

Kenny Clarke and Francy Boland bring six neighbours from their large communal household to a smaller supper club. Beneath a cracked octopus fresco, they negotiate ownership of the last stuffed limpet.

After treatment at the recovery colony, where he met Laurie, Pepper resumes carving. At his celebrated return exhibition beneath the Vanguard colonnade, she straightens his price tags against the current.

Herbie Mann’s Memphis Underground delivery scheme carries market lunches through disused palace drains. Office clerks lower shell baskets through floor grilles; today’s custard arrives slightly ahead of its spoon.

Pepper turns a new carving beneath the workshop’s blue polyps. His early pieces are polished smooth; this one retains the chisel scars. A customer runs her thumb along them.

Art Blakey teaches young couriers at the ruined amphitheatre. His double knocks and abrupt wall-slaps travel through stone; even apprentices flirting behind the columns know when he wants them back.

Along the western reefs, Pepper’s shell pendants hang from wedding collars and fishmongers’ aprons. He still cuts the old labyrinth pattern underneath, where only the wearer’s fingers find it.

Remember to take the towels out of the washing machine.

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