Balancement.

Éternels finalistes de leur émisson, Greg de Villanova et le Président se partagent les titres. "Meilleur disque rayé pour l'un", "Plus grosse poussière dans un sillon" pour l'autre, leur rivalité n'a d'égal que la qualité des musiques gravées sur leur support fétiche : le vinyl, le vrai, le dur, pas celui que l'on revêt dans les soirées pas comme il faut où d'ailleurs ils ne sont pas invités car trop méchants.

🌎 Le Président and Greg de Villanova serve up full-length jazz tracks with a few brief French interludes, moving from Clifford Brown’s fizzing bebop on “Gertrude’s Bounce” to Johnny “Hammond” Smith’s soul-jazz organ, then on to Grant Green’s horn-like guitar lines and Miles Davis’ modal gravity in “Sanctuary”. There’s also Brazilian shuffle from Milton Banana, and a neat reminder that jazz can be elegant, stubbornly odd, and deeply American all at once.

1. Gerturde’s Bounce - Clifford Brown
2. If Someone Had Told Me - Johnny « Hammond » Smith
3. Don’t Be That Way - Buck Clayton
4. Cantaloupe Woman - Grant Green
5. Cute - Paul Moer Trio
6. Estamos Ai - Milton Banana Trio
7. Sanctuary - Miles Davis
8. Nos - The Mitchell-Ruff Duo
9. Caravan - Kenny Burrell
10. Lady Gabor - Chico Hamilton
11. Tour de Force - John Lewis
12. Say it Loud - Lou Donaldson
13. Let’s Split - Frank Foster
14. Huntington Ashram Monastery - Alice Coltrane
15. Teach Me Tonight - Erroll Garner

📝 Vx₁·Σ-82⋮Q, 19 August,2024(Planet number 11)

Humidity beads on glazed towers above the terraced gardens. Along the canals, café boys hook fallen blossoms from drinking-water inlets; a requisitioned pleasure barge carries replacement tiles to the damaged southern sluice.

Le Président insists their canal fare includes cushions. Greg de Villanova produces a receipt specifying shade only. The boatman moves the awning six inches towards Greg.

Clifford Brown’s household projection, fixed at twenty-five when a road crash killed him, supervises his birthday pastries beneath a mosaic vault. He insists the living are cutting them too thin.

Johnny ‘Hammond’ Smith tests the bathhouse steam valves with both hands. His recognisable arrangement of ivory levers appears in establishments across the Grand Bazaar; here, his aunt still demands the family discount.

Buck Clayton, a mainstay of Count Basie’s celebrated household, keeps the picnic keys. Beneath the Serpent Courtyard’s trees, he unlocks the chilled melon compartment before allowing anyone to discuss precedence.

Grant Green trains one flowering vine along his neighbour’s balcony rather than covering it with trellis. He advances its tip another tile towards her breakfast table while she watches.

Paul Moer attends a tiled pavilion’s opening as somebody’s guest. Benny Carter claims the design; Zoot Sims claims the fountain. Moer, who drew both after his workshop shifts, asks where they put the lavatory.

Milton Banana, a self-taught irrigation fitter, adjusts the gentle, intermittent jets in João Gilberto’s first garden. At the adjoining house Gilberto shares with Stan Getz, children queue to run through them.

Miles Davis sells the bazaar’s best-selling blue glaze. A bride compares samples against her fingernails while her mother asks whether the cheaper wartime batch looks different after rain.

Dwike Mitchell poles their ferry while Willie Ruff alternates between diving for lost parcels and watching the bends. After forty years together, they still disagree about which passenger first proposed marriage aboard.

Kenny Burrell measures a customer beneath the Fabric Workshop’s awning. His robes combine intricate cutting, workmen’s indigo and discreet silk edging. The customer practises leaning against a pillar without creasing anything.

Chico Hamilton’s five-person supper club meets in a small vaulted room beside the canal. He replaces the broad communal platters with five narrow dishes; everyone immediately reaches across everyone else.

John Lewis directs the municipal quartet of garden designers. At the spring unveiling, he moves one orange tree half a tile left while the other three hold their ceremonial scissors.

Lou Donaldson exchanges elaborate court sandals for soft, bright bazaar slippers. He tests the latest pair on damp canal steps, then orders matching ones for the woman selling fried aubergines.

Frank Foster supplies patterns to Count Basie’s tailors, including their much-copied glossy stockings. At the Fabric Workshop, he stretches a fresh pair over a melon to inspect the seam.

Alice Coltrane takes McCoy Tyner’s place at her husband John Coltrane’s observatory during its final season. She opens the tiled dome for neighbours wanting a cooler place to eat their evening sherbet.

Erroll Garner, entirely self-taught, prepares quince preserves beneath his kitchen’s mosaic vault. He cannot read the recipes conventionally; his daughter holds up the book while he judges the syrup from her spoon.

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