Bleus.

Sur le corps, le visage, et même à l'intérieur de la tête. C'est là ce que le Président et Greg de Villanova portent leurs coups avec leurs disques bien placés sur leur platine. Aïe ! Ouille ! Jusqu'au bout de l'été, ils ne sont pas fatigués, et même continueront jusque juin prochain...

🌎 This French FM duel between le Président and Greg de Villanova, serves up full-length jazz tracks on vinyl with the kind of Parisian sniping that keeps the needle moving. Here, Sonny Rollins’s “Tune Up” and “Blue Train” sit beside Herbie Mann’s flute-led swing, Johnny « Hammond » Smith’s soul-jazz organ grind and Horace Silver’s “Señor Blues”: hard bop, soul jazz and a few bruised egos in constant circulation.

1. Tune Up - Sonny Rollins.
2. Jungle Fantasy - Herbie Mann.
3. Blue Train - John Coltrane.
4. Black Feeling - Johnny « Hammond » Smith.
5. Speak Low - Sonny Clark.
6. Johnny Hammond Boogaloo - Johnny « Hammond » Smith.
7. Señor Blues - Horace Silver.

📝 Zn₃·Ω-18⋮J, 1 September 2025(Planet number 38)

The shore stands on timber stilts, linked by springy walkways beneath woven roofs. Traders lower baskets of sea-plums into the water to cool; wartime convoy schedules determine when they can offer salt.

Le Président calls his new hammock hand luggage. Greg de Villanova calls it a second berth. Their ferrywoman threads it between two canopy posts and charges them both for shade.

Sonny Rollins oils his broad outrigger before collecting his sweetheart. At sixteen he abandoned narrow racing hulls to copy Coleman Hawkins’s heavy, unhurried passage through the mangroves.

Herbie Mann makes a handsome living selling hollow-reed drinking tubes, once considered children’s utensils. Beneath his market awning, respectable elders suck chilled fruit pulp through them and inspect one another’s purchases.

John Coltrane, once sacked by Miles Davis for drug-induced absences, now runs a sober ferry service. Under its woven canopy, newlyweds pay extra to take the long route.

Johnny ‘Hammond’ Smith takes his nickname from his salvaged pressure stove. At the communal pier, he moves comfortably between dockworkers’ stews, wedding banquets and the sticky business of boiled sweets.

Sonny Clark died at thirty-one. His sister occupies his place at the courtyard domino table, chiefly because his chair has the only cushion. She declines requests to move.

At the supply depot’s cookery contest, Smith’s Hammond stove attracts spectators before he lights it. He borrows a mirror from a textile seller so the back row can inspect his dumplings.

Horace Silver folds pandanus leaves around sweet rice as his father taught him, recalling the family’s distant island home. His children sit beneath the workshop’s drying tapestries, eating the unsuccessful parcels.

The rolling pin has developed a crack.

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