Brutalisme.

En compagnie de Greg de Villanova et du Président la semaine commence toujours fort, très fort.  Leurs vinyles de collection s'usent pour nous. Chacun leur tour, ils s'échinent. C'est le réveil de toutes les pulsions, de toutes les ardeurs, de toutes les ambitions. Du swing, de l'électrique, de la fusion, du sautillant, du scandaleux, du puissant, du caché, bref du pur jazz qui tue. Leurs trésors de derrière les fagots s’enchaînent, leurs méchantes blagues s’enchevêtrent, et puis c'est l'apogée, le moment où, deux heures plus tard, l'émission s'achève et où on en redemande.

🌎 BJG lines up full-length jazz tracks with the usual Parisian sniping between Le Président and Greg de Villanova. Miles Davis opens with “Tempus Fugit”, followed by Afro-Latin detours from The Afro Blues Quintet Plus One, Donald Byrd and Duke Pearson, plus hard bop frictions from Ken McIntyre, Eric Dolphy and Billy Harper. Then comes Oscar Peterson Trio’s “Night Train” and a late electronic curveball from Elvis Benait & Tony Gomez.

1. Tempus Fugit - Miles Davis
2. The Monkey Time - The Afro Blues Quintet Plus One
3. Afro Soul - The Afro-Latin Soultet
4. Groovy Samba - Cannonball Adderley
5. Geo’s Tune - Ken McIntyre & Eric Dolphy
6. Fuchsia Swing Song - Sam Rivers
7. Fever - Usha Uthup
8. Wachet Auf, Ruft Uns Die Stimme Bwv 645 - Jacques Loussier Trio
9. Kofi - Donald Byrd
10. Blin Man, Blind Man - Herbie Hancock
11. Back On the Track - Jimmy McGriff
12. The Eldorado Shuffle - Don Wilkerson
13. Soran Bushi, B.H. - Billy Harper Quintet
14. I’m Confessin - Coleman Hawkins & Clark Terry
15. Twilight Walz - Cedar Walton Trio
16. Summertime - Joe Pass
17. Book’s Bossa - Duke Pearson
18. Night Train - Oscar Peterson Trio
19. Gate One - Elvis Benait & Tony Gomez

 📝 Gl₃·θ-85⋮M, the 21st of October, 2024(Planet number 14 )

Beneath root-bound sandstone towers, painted boats queue at reservoir gates. Market porters carry fruit over lotus-carved thresholds; the army has requisitioned the wider bridges, leaving the narrowest crossings to women carrying the largest baskets.

Le Président insists their hired boat includes shade. Greg de Villanova points out that the vine-covered canopy belongs to the bridge. The boatman waits for them to finish before untying.

Miles Davis paints miniature canal scenes while watching Louis Malle’s projected footage in the Artisan’s Workshop. He pauses the image whenever a passing boat obscures somebody’s washing.

The Afro Blues Quintet Plus One, six settlers from Los Angeles, serve Latin-spiced fritters with soul-food beans beneath the Green Market’s dripping vines. Customers argue over which sauce belongs where.

The Afro-Latin Soultet combine three weaving traditions in one hammock: knotted borders, soft central cloth and adjustable geometric panels. At the Riverfront Café, prospective buyers are encouraged to have a lie-down.

Cannonball Adderley joins Miles Davis on the blue-tiled bathhouse project. He tests the communal pool from several positions, then asks whether inspection duties include lunch.

Ken McIntyre and Eric Dolphy cultivate several varieties of structural reed. Their latest balcony bends beyond the approved boundary; both sit on it, eating fruit while the surveyor measures.

Sam Rivers practises several trades and favours experimental clothes. In the Winding Alley, he fits his neighbour with a folding rain skirt; its extended hem occupies most of her kitchen.

Usha Uthup’s deep voice carries from the marriage registry to the canal steps. She also conducts auctions and bathhouse announcements. Today she calls her husband home without leaving her shaded terrace.

The Jacques Loussier Trio adapt Bach’s formal garden plans for floating allotments. Between the strict rows, they install swivelling tea tables; tenants rotate them to follow the afternoon shade.

Donald Byrd, formerly one of Art Blakey’s messengers, now heads an indigo warehouse beside the canal. He still delivers urgent parcels himself, particularly when the recipient offers sticky rice.

Herbie Hancock, twenty-two, demonstrates his watermelon-carrying automaton in the Green Market. It follows customers beneath the vine trees, politely refusing every instruction to carry anything less round.

Jimmy McGriff specialises in Hammond irrigation engines. Kneeling beside a courtyard fountain, he adjusts the grooved regulator until the water reaches his preferred height.

The bread bin smells faintly of onions. 

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