Olympiens.

Greg de Villanova et le Président gagnent tout, toutes les épreuves, en se lançant à la figure, aux oreilles, aux yeux et au coeur leurs plus beaux pressages. Ils ne respectent aucunes règles. Leur but est de recueillir un maximum de houras de la part de la foule en délire qui, parcourue de frissons de jazz définitifs, les acclament. Leurs saillies et leurs disques vinyles sont autant de médailles d'or, avec de vrais morceaux de touristes de la Tour Eiffel dedans.

🌎 Le Président and Greg de Villanova serve up full-length jazz tracks with the sort of French chat that doesn’t outstay its welcome: Lee Morgan’s hard-bop bite on “Off Spring”, Jackie McLean’s sharper-than-Parker alto in “A Fickle Sonance”, and the transatlantic heft of the Kenny Clarke - Francy Boland Big Band on “My Favorite Things”. Add Brother Jack McDuff’s soul-jazz organ, plus Dexter Gordon and Charles Mingus, and the set walks briskly from bebop to big band jazz.

1. Off Spring - Lee Morgan.
2. A Fickle Sonance - Jackie McLean.
3. My Favorite Things - The Kenny Clarke - Francy Boland Big Band.
4. Moon Rappin’ - Brother Jack McDuff.
5. Broadway - Dexter Gordon.
6. Paris Blues - Sonny Criss.
7. Retribution Reparation - Nate Morgan.
8. Freedom Suite - Walter Bishop Jr.
9. Tunji - John Coltrane Quartet.
10. Deep in a Dream - Chet Baker.
11. The Tokyo Blues - Horace Silver.
12. Tell it Like It Is - Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers.
13. Better Get It In Your Soul - Charles Mingus.
14. Autumn Leaves - Cannonball Adderley.
15. Naima - Michael Carvin.

📝 Z₇·₄Q-12◊M, 5 August 2024(Planet number 10)

Stepped metal dwellings float beside stone plateaus, their geometric walls dark with cloud moisture. Across the central plaza, residents drag market stalls round a polished slab reserved for military freight.

Le Président insists their floating lodging has drifted nearer the waterfall. Greg de Villanova checks the mooring chain, then moves Le Président’s wet chair beneath the awning.

Lee Morgan joins Dizzy Gillespie’s cliff-survey crew while still a teenager. At lunch, he uses the communal measuring rod to establish that his portion of root pudding is shorter than everyone else’s.

Jackie McLean learned engraving under Charlie Parker. In the artisan workshop, he now uses a sharper acid; customers run cautious fingers over the geometric wedding bracelets before trying them on.

Kenny Clarke and Francy Boland jointly run the only marriage bureau serving both shores of the ocean. Their floating office has two entrances and one cupboard for confiscated family objections.

Brother Jack McDuff presides over the largest communal steam baths beneath the plaza. He opens another Hammond boiler as off-duty freight handlers queue with towels and carefully concealed bottles.

Dexter Gordon, among the first competitive high-walk racers, strolls the shimmering metal course above the gorge. His granddaughter times him; he stops beside every spectator who offers him a sweet.

Sonny Criss sells sharply drawn caricatures beneath a western plateau’s dripping overhang. Charlie Parker’s influence remains evident, particularly in the teeth. A councillor requests a smaller mouth and receives a larger hat.

Nate Morgan tends the communal roof gardens around Horace Tapscott’s prayer house. Before the planting blessing, he quietly exchanges the children’s empty seed packets for ones containing sugared beans.

Walter Bishop Jr. keeps accounts for Charlie Parker, Miles Davis and Jackie McLean. At the food hall, all three lean across his ledger to dispute whose courtship expenses qualify as transport.

John Coltrane demonstrates the high-pitched kettle he has made fashionable. On the observation terrace, picnickers hold cups beneath its slender spout while waterfall mist settles on their unopened parcels.

Chet Baker is known for delicate blown-glass cups and almost inaudible wedding ceremonies. Beneath a stepped metal arch, today’s couple lean towards him, still holding their shopping.

Horace Silver combines temple feast recipes, plateau beans and southern coastal spices. At his food-hall counter, diners trade scarce pepper allowances for a second spoonful of the sauce.

Art Blakey’s apprentice nursery supplies gardeners to nearly every floating district. Today he makes the youngest recruits repot ceremonial shrubs while their proud parents obstruct the entire metal walkway.

Charles Mingus, a gifted foundation engineer and notoriously irritable housing chairman, rearranges a model floating district. Someone has placed the communal lavatory where he specifies the birthday pavilion.

Cannonball Adderley causes a stir after joining a tile game at the plaza café. Spectators abandon their places in the bread queue to watch him play with borrowed pieces.

Michael Carvin massages freight pilots, including Freddie Hubbard and Dizzy Gillespie. In his moss-lined tunnel room, they compare shoulder complaints while he warms smooth stones beside the fungal lamp.

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