Caliente.

Au coeur de l'hiver, vous reprendriez bien un peu de chaleur? Celle de Greg de Villanova qui vous réchauffe les oreilles de ses trouvailles, celle du Président qui vous enflamme avec ses standards indépassables. Le problème est que les deux ont chacun vraiment du mal à supporter le charisme de l'autre. Écoutez-les ne cesser de se critiquer, d'inventer n'importe quoi, de se discréditer. Bref, ça jazz hot.

🌎 Your French FM showdown where le Président and Greg de Villanova bicker their way through full-length jazz tracks on vinyl, finds its sweet spot between bebop, hard bop, soul jazz and bossa nova. From Thelonious Monk’s “Nutty” and Art Pepper’s “Brazil” to Stan Getz & João Gilberto’s “Desafinado”, Freddie Hubbard, Bill Evans and Sonny Stitt, this set keeps history moving and the needle honest.

1. Nutty - Thelonious Monk.
2. Brazil - Art Pepper.
3. Carnival (Manha De Carnival) - Freddie Hubbard.
4. Desafinado - Stan Getz & João Gilberto.
5. Eclipso - Lee Morgan.
6. Hi Groove, Low Feedback - Hank Mobley.
7. Amanda - ‘Big’ John Patton.
8. No Cover, No Minimum - Bill Evans.
9. Little Madimba - McCoy Tyner.
10. Don’t Explain - Wynton Kelly.
11. Delores - Harold Johnson Sextet.
12. Hop, Skip and Jump - Bennie Green.
13. You’ll Never Get Away from Me - Stanley Turrentine.
14. It Ain’t Necessarily So - Benny Golson & Art Farmer.
15. Biskit - Clifford Jordan Quartet.
16. P.S. I Love You - Sonny Stitt.

📝 Am₄·β-92⋮X, 27 January 2025(Planet number 20)

Under permanent cloud, vines enter cracked stone houses through obsolete ventilation shafts. Families hang clan charms beside salvaged fuse boxes. At the rail yard, a requisition notice covers yesterday’s wedding announcement.

Le Président claims the sunny end of a carriage veranda. Greg de Villanova points out that neither end receives sunshine. They move the kettle rather than surrender either chair.

Thelonious Monk keeps house at Minton’s Playhouse, where settlers devise new board games on salvaged circuit panels. As resident referee, he permits diagonal moves but confiscates edible counters.

Art Pepper prepares a wedding feast with Miles Davis’s regular kitchen crew and scarcely any rehearsal. His handwritten memoir circulates beneath the Bracketed Plaza’s vehicle stalls; several guests demand corrections.

Freddie Hubbard inspects lifts in John Coltrane’s observatory, Ornette Coleman’s council tower and Eric Dolphy’s glasshouse. At each landmark, he rides with a cup of water balanced on his head.

Stan Getz introduces northern settlers to João Gilberto’s southern hammock lunches. In the Overgrown Courtyard, they demonstrate the correct angle between soup bowl and reclining body. Clan elders take notes.

Lee Morgan is Art Blakey’s star runner among the Messengers. He clears the rail yard’s vine-choked buffers carrying three marriage proposals, stopping to check which recipient has offered cake.

Hank Mobley files another patent at Blue Note’s office above the Worn Workshop. His latest salvage invention removes vine tendrils from trouser cuffs. The clerk requests a demonstration without trousers.

‘Big’ John Patton tends a salvaged Hammond range at the Blue Note canteen. Regulars reserve seats beside its warm casing with ancestral beads. He charges extra for drying socks.

Bill Evans lays blue glass in Miles Davis’s communal bathhouse. With replacement panes delayed by the blockade, he negotiates with a bride for the bottom of her grandmother’s serving dish.

McCoy Tyner presses his left palm into clay bowls at the Worn Workshop. Buyers recognise the deep, broad impression before checking his seal. He refuses requests for shallower thumb space.

Wynton Kelly also works at Miles Davis’s blue-glass bathhouse. He checks the towels against tribal ownership knots while his fiancée tries to persuade him that hers now counts as his.

Still at school, Harold Johnson sells H.M.E. a vine-racing game; Revue distributes it beyond the rail yard. Ndugu Chancler and Larry Nash help test it between lessons, wagering salvaged buttons.

Bennie Green tailors warm blue cloaks, keeping the generous swing of old clan robes while fitting pockets for salvaged batteries. Young rail-skippers queue outside his carriage with increasingly large batteries.

Stanley Turrentine calls the supper queue in a deep, warm voice that carries through the Bracketed Plaza. Regulars linger after eating. He reads the pudding list again, at their request.

Benny Golson argues marriage cases and writes the clan’s marriage rules. Art Farmer waits outside the Faded Library court with two witnesses and a bouquet, querying the distinction between fees and gifts.

Self-taught grower Clifford Jordan establishes Frontier, a seed cooperative behind the Faded Library. He supplies Wilbur Ware and Pharoah Sanders with reclaimed irrigation pumps, then inspects their competing marrow trellises.

Sonny Stitt switches fluently between upland and lowland dialects while helping his aunt court a carriage neighbour. She rejects his accurate translation and asks for something suggesting fewer remaining teeth.

Put the spare pillowcases in the airing cupboard.

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