Nikita Zabelin • Co2ridor
Rêve.
Un jour, Greg de Villanova et le Président se réconcilieront. Mieux, ils danseront ensemble, sautillant gaiement sur un track partagé. Mais en attendant, c'est toujours deux heures de couteaux tirés, de critiques faciles, de mauvaise humeur à l'emporte-pièce, de disque contre disque. Bref, vous vous apprêtez à écouter l'émission de jazz la plus sanglante de la bande FM et du podcast mondial. Son déroulé pourrait vous faire sombrer au pays des merveilles.
🌎 Your radio show keeps the vinyl duel suitably unruly: full-length jazz tracks, with Le Président and Greg de Villanova trading Parisian side-eye between sides. This episode ranges from Andrew Hill’s prickly post-bop on “Judgement” and “Reconciliation” to Miles Davis at his most mobile, via Duke Pearson, Pharoah Sanders and Dexter Gordon. Cool jazz, hard bop and spiritual jazz rub shoulders; so do Blue Note sidemen, leaders and left-turns.
- Easy Living - Ike Quebec
- Judgement - Andrew Hill
- The Phantom - Duke Pearson
- Reconciliation - Andrew Hill
- Blue Xmas - Miles Davis
- Sombrero Sam - Charles Lloyd Quartet
- Mustang - Donald Byrd
- Weird Harold - Chester Thompson
- Way Down Blues - Joe Newman
- Prince of Peace - Pharoah Sanders
- Angela - Robin Kenyatta’s Free State Band
- Stuff - Miles Davis
- Love Locked Out - Dexter Gordon
📝 Cu₄·¥-23⋮H, 10 February 2025(Planet number 21)
Below carved, stepped temples, riverboats unload breadfruit beside woven thatch houses. Families eat on the green terraces; the evening ferry now leaves before the defence boom closes.
Le Président claims their market queue follows the shade. Greg de Villanova insists it follows the carved drainage channel. Both advance when a woman carrying six puddings tells them to.
Ike Quebec watches apprentices race reed boats along the plaza gutters. He recruits for the Blue Note trading house, quietly offering the winner a clerkship while helping retrieve the losers’ cargo.
Andrew Hill oils a waterslide descending three garden terraces. Earl Hines encouraged him as a boy; the old surveyor now queues barefoot, holding his official robes above his knees.
Duke Pearson selects new potters for the Blue Note workshops, then returns to his own stall. He turns every drinking bowl slightly, keeping his signature visible beneath the carved stone awning.
Hill’s experimental marriage registry is now a civic landmark. Couples approach by separate spiral ramps and meet above the fragrant gardens; relatives below argue about which descent constitutes reconciliation.
Miles Davis leaves the temple academy before qualifying and sells supper beside the river dock. His new electric griddle runs off a boat battery; customers pay extra to toast their own breadfruit.
Charles Lloyd’s four-person racing crew includes Keith Jarrett, who handles the steering paddle. Their terrace-league supporters now include dock porters and magistrates; both groups wear the same aggressively pink woven hats.
Donald Byrd studies ceremonial knotting with Nadia Boulanger across the river. His inexpensive black rain cape outsells the embroidered versions; he demonstrates its pockets beneath a leaking market roof.
Chester Thompson checks the flood gauges, then supervises foundation work for Genesis Housing. At lunch he crosses the river on his employer’s floating cement mixer, carrying a covered bowl for his wife.
Joe Newman teaches children to count with breadfruit seeds beneath the workshop awning. Between lessons, he reallocates the school’s clay tablets; everyone wants the ones without multiplication scratched on the back.
Pharoah Sanders, formerly John Coltrane’s attendant, leads dawn bathing below the stepped shrine. Worshippers entrust him with private anxieties and dry loincloths; he keeps the latter carefully labelled on separate pegs.
Robin Kenyatta grafts pepper vines onto floating melon beds. The conservative growers disapprove, but visit his thatched tasting shelter repeatedly, bringing salt and suggesting increasingly elaborate ways to cook the evidence.
Davis keeps his desserts cool in porous clay jars. For Louis Malle’s projected courtship drama, he improvises a banquet while watching each scene; an approaching kiss receives pickled river prawns.
Dexter Gordon, settled for years among the northern canals, receives visiting newlyweds beneath his thatched veranda. Local families consult him on foreign table manners. He demonstrates the second spoon using someone else’s pudding.
The biscuit tin won't close properly.
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