Réduction.

En raison d'une hausse monstrueuse de popularité et d'un acharnement à travailler dans le bon sens des autorités, Greg de Villanova et le Président ont obtenu une promotion sur Radio Campus Paris. Ils passent désormais à 21h tous les lundis, mais que pendant une heure, parcequandmêmefautpasabuser : ça reste deux bouffons, cultivés, certes ; riches, sans doute ; mais le jazz ça va comme ça.

🌎 Battle Jazz Galactica pits Le Président and Greg de Villanova against each other in a bickering vinyl duel, with full-length jazz tracks and short Parisian interludes. Here, René Urtreger rubs shoulders with John Coltrane, Bobby Hutcherson and Ron Carter, before Benny Golson closes the argument. From modal jazz and post-bop to swing jazz and soulful tenor work, it’s a neat cross-section, with “Impressions” and “Jubilation” doing some of the heavy lifting.

1. Recidive - René Urtreger.
2. Impressions - John Coltrane.
3. Ummh - Bobby Hutcherson.
4. Melody for Bu - Harold Vick.
5. Dear Old Stockholm - Scott Hamilton.
6. El Noche Sol - Ron Carter.
7. Jubilation - Benny Golson.

📝 Xy₃·$\#0-43⋮L, 30 June 2025(Planet number 30) 

Humidity beads on the ziggurats’ carved stone lions. Below, bargemen pole through canals between barley fields and crowded spice stalls. A requisition notice reserves alternate landings for military flour; everyone unloads at the others.

Le Président insists their hired canal boat fits beneath the bazaar bridge. Greg de Villanova points to the awning wedged against its stone arch and continues eating his date pastry.

René Urtreger operates the lift he built for Miles Davis’s scaffolded supper terrace. Between the ziggurat’s carved lions, he raises a honey cake; guests lean over the balustrade to supervise.

John Coltrane races reed boats in the Quiet Gardens’ irrigation channel. Making them became his refuge after several family deaths at twelve. His niece accuses him of secretly widening his sail.

Bobby Hutcherson puts aside his clay-modelling tools and counts his apprentice’s wages. Since watching Milt Jackson skim across Waterway Square, the teenager saves for a levitating reed board of his own.

Harold Vick serves fragrant lentils at the temple, dockside and merchants’ bathhouse. He greets customers by name; at the baths, a naked magistrate asks him not to.

Scott Hamilton sells loose, old-fashioned wool robes beneath a Grand Bazaar awning while neighbouring tailors advertise fusion-sealed fabrics. He invites a prospective bridegroom to test the pockets with six figs.

Ron Carter steadies the stern of Miles Davis’s second five-person canal-racing crew. At the starting arch, he quietly removes three jars of picnic beer from beneath the captain’s seat.

Benny Golson and Art Farmer jointly run the ziggurat’s rooftop matchmaking suppers. Golson rearranges the clay name tablets; Farmer moves them back, keeping two rival orchard owners within reach of the same honey bowl.

Must replace the batteries in the remote.

BATTLE JAZZ GALACTICA

Always the Full Tracks.

Killer Vinyl Cuts and Short French Banters.

Mondays at 11 PM, Thursdays at noon on Radio Campus Paris, 93.9 FM & DAB+, Wednesdays at 6 PM on Campus FM, Toulouse, 94.0 FM.