Progressions.

Et si l'émission de jazz de tous ceux qui savent avait un sens ? Une émission où Greg de Villanova et le Président déballeraient leurs vinyles en suivant une règle, un fil rouge, une direction ? Impossible. Car les efforts de l'un pour tenir le manche sont systématiquement sabotés par l'autre. Et quand l'autre décide d'être sage, l'un se fait plus bruyant. Alors c'est comme d'habitude ? Oui. Et peut-être que c'est tant mieux.

🌎 This radio show has Le Président and Greg de Villanova trading Parisian snipes between full-length jazz tracks on vinyl, from hard bop and cool jazz to soul jazz and modal detours. Here, Ben Webster’s velvet tenor, Kenny Dorham’s crisp trumpet on Trompeta Toccata, Grant Green’s blues-drenched guitar, and Wynton Kelly’s buoyant Joe’s Avenue sit beside Chet Baker, Phil Woods and Miles Davis, in a bickering crate-digger’s duel with real swing.

1. The Touch of Your Lips - Ben Webster & Oscar Peterson.
2. I Don’t Want Nobody To Give Me Nothing - Grant Green.
3. Minor Yours - Chet Baker.
4. Trompeta Toccata - Kenny Dorham.
5. I May Be Wrong - Frank Rosolino.
6. Joe’s Avenue - Wynton Kelly.
7. A Nice Day - Chico Hamilton Quintet.
8. Your Love Is Just Too Much - Gene Harris & The Three Sounds.
9. Salt Peanuts - Dizzy Gillespie.
10. The Last Page - Phil Woods.
11. Walkin’ - Clifford Brown.
12. Blue Trane - Cedar Walton.
13. So Sorry Please - Tommy Flanagan.
14. Tacos - The Jazz Crusaders.
15. Directions (Live At the Fillmore) - Miles Davis.

📝 Z₃·X-49⋮T, 16 June 2025(Planet number 29)

Beneath the sea, humid air vaults shelter carved coral terraces and spice stalls. Canoes pass between flowering banks; the evening convoy restriction brings the fish auction forward by an hour.

Le Président claims the shady end of a thermal pool bench. Greg de Villanova produces a woven mat which, he maintains, reserves the entire bench. Both consult the bathing attendant.

Ben Webster, Duke Ellington’s featured pearl diver, examines an engagement oyster beneath a market awning. His intended holds the basket while he negotiates permission to open it before paying.

Grant Green learned pandanus weaving from his father while still at primary school. He sits beside the canal, repairing his daughter’s schoolbag around the contraband crab she refuses to remove.

Chet Baker’s drug dependence repeatedly interrupts his apprenticeship. At the council hall, he unfolds another court summons while his girlfriend measures his wrist for the matching shell bracelets she is making.

Kenny Dorham has carried confidential messages for Charlie Parker, Art Blakey and Max Roach. Today he arranges their wedding gifts on a stone bench, keeping the three identical spice grinders well apart.

Frank Rosolino repairs teeth with dazzling precision in a sunken coral workshop. He fits himself with enormous temporary tusks before inviting a nervous child into the chair.

Wynton Kelly works the passenger punt at an unhurried pace. Each push arrives just as the canal current slackens; a woman balances an uncovered bowl of chilli broth on her knees.

Chico Hamilton shares grilled prawns with Charles Mingus, Dexter Gordon and Illinois Jacquet beneath the market awnings. Their teenage swimming club photograph circulates; each identifies somebody else as the boy wearing borrowed teeth.

Gene Harris brings prayer-house generosity and dockside pepper sauces to the Three Sounds canteen. Regulars queue beneath its tapa awning, holding bowls considerably larger than the advertised portions.

Dizzy Gillespie acquired his nickname clowning through his first bathhouse jobs. He now supervises the thermal springs, solemnly checking the temperature with a wooden spoon balanced across his nose.

Phil Woods examines the famous shell mosaic he laid in Billy Joel’s marriage chamber. Visiting couples request the same design; Billy, barefoot in the doorway, asks whether they might return after breakfast.

Clifford Brown warms his hands before demonstrating infant swimming in the thermal pool. Three generations of instructors copy his clean supporting grip; the baby concentrates on eating his flower garland.

Cedar Walton’s Bolivia latch is standard throughout the deep garden. He visits a glass growing sphere to find its keeper using his celebrated mechanism to secure a particularly ambitious climbing bean.

Tommy Flanagan has dressed Ella Fitzgerald for council receptions for years. Beneath her carved coral doorway, he waits with two feathered cloaks while she asks whether either looks insufficiently expensive.

The Jazz Crusaders once swung demolition hammers against condemned coral walls. Now trading as The Crusaders, they sell flexible partitions grown from fused coral strains; customers knock experimentally on the samples.

Miles Davis displays the first bubble stylus he received at thirteen. Already taking public commissions as a teenager, he now inscribes marriage proposals beneath canal bridges, charging extra for spelling corrections.

Don't forget to rinse the sieve.

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