Décompte.

Les abeilles chantent, les oiseaux fientent, les fleurs sentent, Greg de Villanova passe ses disques et le Président aussi. Ainsi s'emballe le cours de la vie à le printemps. Un éternel (mais pour combien de temps ?) recommencement. Du vieux jazz, du vieux funk, mais la jeunesse ne s'y trompe pas. Parcourue de frissons de sève hormonale, elle a besoin de ces références qui annonçaient la musique d'aujourd'hui et déjà les catastrophes climatiques de demain.

🌎 Le Président and Greg de Villanova keep up their vinyl duel with full-length jazz tracks ranging from hard bop and soul jazz to a dash of modal poise. Johnny Coles, Jimmy Smith, Wayne Shorter and Grant Green set the tone, before Mulatu Astatke, Sonny Stitt and Art Blakey widen the frame. Expect Parisian bickering, sly swing, and the odd left turn via “Little Johnny C” and “Fancy Free”.

1. Little Johnny C - Johnny Coles.
2. James And Wes - Jimmy Smith & Wes Montgomery.
3. Kryptonite  - Wayne Shorter.
4. Gettin’ Into Something - Hank Mobley.
5. Mulatu - Mulatu Astatkte.
6. Minor Catastrophe - Victor Feldman.
7. Fancy Free - Grant Green.
8. After Hours - Sonny Stitt.
9. Shifte-Telle Mama - Jeremy Steig.
10. Just One of These Things - Walter Davis, Jr.
11. Brother Where are You - Oscar Brown Jr.
12. Algo Bueno - Georges Arvanitas Trio.
13. Fantasy in D - Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers.
14. Old Reliable - Jimmy Cleveland.

📝 Zr₃·@91⋮F, 7 April 2025(Planet number 25)

Humidity beads on coral doorposts beneath the interwoven jungle canopy. Families pole between reed houses and moss-covered coastal graves. The evening ferry now leaves before the wartime blackout; passengers bring supper aboard.

Le Président insists their hired canoe includes a sunshade. Greg de Villanova produces the agreement, woven into a palm strip. The boatman holds it against the light and charges extra for interpretation.

Johnny Coles sells dark, unpatterned wraps beneath the market canopy. Customers admire his restraint. He silently removes a fluorescent tassel his daughter keeps attaching to the display.

Jimmy Smith’s foot-operated tide valve now appears in kitchens, racing canoes and reef drills. Wes Montgomery borrows the design to inflate a courting pavilion without putting down his lunch.

Wayne Shorter designs floating kitchens for Art Blakey’s couriers and Miles Davis’s second council of five. At the communal courtyard, both organisations claim his folding breakfast shelf as their own.

Hank Mobley lowers another heated stone into the pool at his much-admired Soul Station bathhouse. Beneath the mangroves, three customers debate whether the new changing screen is sufficiently opaque.

Mulatu Astatke, an Ethiopian settler credited with inventing highland-style reef cookery, spoons fermented grain over shellfish. His nieces demand the experimental sauce; he charges them the experimental price.

Victor Feldman, a British arrival, practises dentistry, lens-grinding and canoe repair from one sunlit workshop. A bride waits beside a cracked outrigger while he polishes her mother’s ceremonial spectacles.

Grant Green leads reef excursions and crews for other guides, sometimes within the same tide. He carries separate reed hats for shrine visits, oyster picnics, racing and respectable family outings.

Sonny Stitt increasingly enters deep-channel swimming races because everyone compares his shallow-water stroke with Charlie Parker’s. His wife sits on the tidal platform, guarding his lunch from small climbing crabs.

Jeremy Steig fits an electric booster to his breath-powered diving tube. He tests it beneath the shellfish platform, blowing bubbles through his sister’s harvest basket while she negotiates a marriage proposal.

Walter Davis, Jr keeps dental moulds for Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Art Blakey above his coral workbench. Today he adjusts a grandmother’s false tooth around her preferred shellfish hook.

Oscar Brown Jr sells reed fans printed with sharp little verses about the ration office. An official buys six, then asks whether the bulk discount also applies to personal insults.

Georges Arvanitas remains central to the Paris settlers’ gambling clubs. Under the courtyard’s twisted trees, he settles a disputed hand by weighing a suspiciously waterlogged playing tile.

Art Blakey, now Abdullah Ibn Buhaina following his conversion to Islam, distributes honey cakes after prayers. He keeps the largest beneath his reed hat while the children count the remaining portions.

Jimmy Cleveland slips through a flooded inspection shaft without disturbing his lunch parcel. Large canoe fleets and harbour planners prize his unusually fluid technique. He negotiates his fee while drying one ear.

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