Définitions.

À l'origine, le Jazz, rappelle le Président, c'est fait pour sautiller. Pas du tout, retorque Greg de Villanova, ça sert pas forcément à quelque chose de précis. Querelle. Échanges de méchants arguments et de bons morceaux. Cette semaine c'est comme d'habitude mais forcément mieux que la fois d'avant car le temps bonifie tout. Testez. Débouchez cette émission et revenez dessus dans 6 mois en podcast éternel !

🌎 Le Président and Greg de Villanova return with another vinyl duel of full-length jazz tracks, moving from Bobby Timmons and Joe Henderson to Grant Green, Freddie Hubbard and John Coltrane. Expect hard bop, soul jazz and a stretch of spiritual fire: from “Soul Time” and “Nardis” to “A Love Supreme Pt. III, Pursuance”. Sharp Parisian banter, then the record drops again.

1. Soul Time - Bobby Timmons.
2. Nardis - Joe Henderson Sextet.
3. If I Should Lose You - Grant Green.
4. Mamacita - Joe Henderson.
5. Right Off - Miles Davis.
6. À Coltrane - Hamsa & Richard Raux.
7. Gypsy Blue - Freddie Hubbard.
8. When Sunny Gets Blue - Rheta Hughes.
9. Chuckin’ - Kenny Burrell.
10. Inner City Blues - Reuben Wilson.
11. West Coast Blues - Sonny Criss.
12. Serenade to a Soul Sister - Horace Silver.
13. A Love Supreme Pt. III, Pursuance - John Coltrane.
14. New Breed - Billy Harper.

📝 Z₃·†-54⋮F, 2 December 2024(Planet number 17)

Beneath the wetland canopy, families patch woven walls around murals of their ancestors. The morning market smells of bruised flowers and frying fruit. Army requisitions leave the passenger ferries running on alternate days.

Le Président claims the shaded end of a carved plaza bench. Greg de Villanova points out that his hired cushion occupies it. The bench owner charges them separately for arguing space.

Bobby Timmons carries two covered bowls through the morning market. He has cooked for both Art Blakey and Cannonball Adderley; each insists the other has stolen his pepper sauce.

Joe Henderson made his name at the blue-dye cooperative. In the artisan’s lane, he pulls his dark, supple cloth through a wedding ring while a prospective buyer pretends not to be impressed.

Grant Green alters prayer robes, marsh-workers’ overalls and glossy courting trousers with equal assurance. Today, a customer wants all three functions in one garment. Green measures him across the knees.

Joe Henderson adds a small likeness of himself to the lineage mural he helps Horace Silver paint for Silver’s father. He places it behind a breadfruit tree, but leaves the face visible.

Miles Davis watches Louis Malle’s projected street scenes in the Paris teahouse, mixing matching scents for its mist vents. For the lift sequence, he reaches for crushed wetland pepper.

Richard Raux and his brother Patrice run Hamsa, the family pickle concern. Laurent Thibault financed their first castle-cellar batch in 1975. Richard devises every recipe; Patrice quietly opens another tasting jar.

Freddie Hubbard joined Art Blakey’s messenger company in the early sixties. Beside the requisitioned ferry, he holds three courting letters above the drizzle and asks which recipient now lives upstairs.

Rheta Hughes serves fruit ices beneath a woven awning. Her likeness appears in advertisements, civic pageants and household dramas; a child requests the villain’s sneer with his second scoop.

Kenny Burrell sketches household portraits on polished seed husks. His sitters range from John Coltrane to Jimmy Smith. Smith requests fewer chins; Burrell turns the husk towards the light.

Reuben Wilson, the blue cooperative’s leading Hammond-pump dealer since the late sixties, reclines beside the reflective pool. Every demonstration sends a discreet jet of water beneath his neighbour’s floating chair.

Sonny Criss wins another west-coast poleboat race. Everyone at the landing knows him; nobody buys his commemorative sashes. He uses one to secure a basket of celebratory fruit.

Horace Silver’s canopy-building crews are a recognised training ground for apprentices. At lunch, the newest recruit practises knots around his supervisor’s sandal while Silver continues peeling a custard fruit.

John Coltrane’s geometrical stairway puzzle is compulsory for young surveyors. Beside the reflective pool, he lays out a devotional walking circuit; two courting students are already taking a shortcut.

Billy Harper argues drainage cases with a preacher’s fervour and a dockworker’s force. Under the gathering grove, he raises one muddy sandal before the elders. His opponent requests that it remain downwind.

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