Dérives.

L'heure est grave. Enfin, les deux heures d'émission sont graves. Et aiguës. Et médiums. Les égaliseurs s'affolent. Greg de Villanova et le Président poussent leurs galettes jusque tard dans la nuit. Ce soir l'enjeu est : à partir de quelle dose de funk le jazz n'en est plus ? Passionnant, non? Vous n'avez pas le droit de cliquer ailleurs.

🌎 BJG keeps its usual vinyl duel going with full-length jazz tracks and a running French argument between Le Président and Greg de Villanova. This set moves from hard bop and soul jazz to post-bop and organ-led grooves: Frank Wess, John Coltrane, Freddie Hubbard, Jimmy Smith and Dexter Gordon all turn up, alongside the slyly danceable fizz of Richard “Groove” Holmes and Dr. Lonnie Smith.

1. Low Life - Frank Wess.
2. Bille’s Bounce - John Coltrane & The Red Garland Quintet.
3. Lyriste - Hampton Hawes.
4. The Black Angel - Freddie Hubbard.
5. What Is This Thing Called Love - Jimmy Smith.
6. Don’t Mess With Me - Richard ‘Groove’ Holmes.
7. Move Your Hand - Dr. Lonnie Smith.
8. Mr Clean - Richard ‘Groove’ Holmes.
9. Caravan - Ben Webster & Don Byas.
10. Vertigo Ro - Roland Kirk Quartet.
11. Giant Steps - John Coltrane.
12. Sunset - Yusef Lateef.
13. Reflections - Sonny Rollins.
14. The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face - Dexter Gordon.

📝 Qx₃·Φ-92⋮N, 24 February 2025(Planet number 22)

Inside luminous coral domes, families cultivate taro in humid terraces and lash outriggers for the inter-dome crossings. The air smells of crushed sea herbs. Requisitioned ferries leave rather longer queues beneath the kelp.

Le Président claims their shell tokens cover two ferry seats. Greg de Villanova points to the luggage tariff. Between them, a live lobster occupies the disputed third seat.

Frank Wess, Count Basie’s principal reed supplier, tests a hollow stalk against the Tidal Market’s irrigation valve. He also sells single-stem drinking straws; customers queue to have theirs fitted.

John Coltrane makes soprano proclamations fashionable at the Deep Exchange. Red Garland and his four registry clerks now receive marriage applications shouted above the cascade. Coltrane supplies breathing instructions on waterproof cards.

Hampton Hawes presents President John F. Kennedy’s commutation letter at the property hatch. The clerk returns his shell betting counters individually, checking each against a list. Hawes immediately proposes double or nothing.

Freddie Hubbard’s red-clay body wraps set the fashion across the residential domes. At his bathhouse, customers recline beneath warm seaweed while an apprentice wipes expensive red fingerprints from the luminous coral door.

Jimmy Smith’s Blue Note lunch stall establishes the local standard for comfort food: smoked eel, taro and peppery kelp broth. Shipyard workers bring their own bowls; Smith measures seconds with a larger shell.

Richard ‘Groove’ Holmes earns his nickname cutting deep tracks through the algae on the Navigation Passage’s sliding floor. Children copy his turns. The cleaner follows with a bucket and considerably less enthusiasm.

Dr. Lonnie Smith returns another parcel intended for Lonnie Liston Smith. They are unrelated. This one contains matching courtship sashes; his wife examines the enclosed shell necklace before releasing it.

Holmes combines dockside shuffles with temple procession steps at a Hydro Gardens wedding. Guests stamp the floating platform until an aunt secures the pudding with canoe lashings.

Ben Webster negotiates separations in a famously breathy murmur. Don Byas leans across the shell-inlaid desk to hear.

Must replace the wooden spoon.

BATTLE JAZZ GALACTICA

Always the Full Tracks.

Killer Vinyl Cuts and Short French Banters.

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