Écho.

Chaque disque en appelle un autre. Greg tente une transition douce, le Président enchaîne avec un sample qu’il connaît par cœur. L’émission devient mémoire partagée.

🌎 On BATTLE JAZZ GALACTICA, le Président and Greg de Villanova keep their deadpan vinyl war going with full-length jazz tracks and a fresh round of French sparring. This set swings from Johnny « Hammond » Smith’s soul jazz organ to Buck Clayton’s elegant swing, via Grant Green, Milton Banana Trio and Miles Davis. Brazilian jazz, West Coast polish and hard bop instincts all get a turn before the next jab lands.

1. If Someone Had Told Me - Johnny « Hammond » Smith.
2. Don’t Be That Way - Buck Clayton.
3. Cantaloupe Woman - Grant Green.
4. Cute - Paul Moer Trio.
5. Estamos Ai - Milton Banana Trio.
6. Sanctuary - Miles Davis.
7. Nos - The Mitchell-Ruff Duo.
8. Caravan - Kenny Burrell.
9. Lady Gabor - Chico Hamilton.

📝 Ru₃·Δ-48⋮J, 28 July 2025(Planet number 33)

Beneath a mineral-heavy sky, fitted stone terraces descend into inhabited tunnels. Looms and lifting engines keep the same working rhythm. The morning passenger cage carries replacement windows for the bombed upper galleries.

Le Président claims their shopping trolley counts as one passenger. Greg de Villanova removes two sacks of terrace potatoes to demonstrate its folding mechanism. The lift attendant continues eating her pear.

Johnny ‘Hammond’ Smith takes his nickname from the press behind his dumpling counter. In the Central Workshop’s lunch queue, customers identify their orders by pointing at its grease marks.

Buck Clayton’s elegant mallet swing makes him a favourite for impromptu terrace-ball matches. Spectators record his strokes on pocket tablets; he asks them to delete the one involving the irrigation channel.

Grant Green has sold fruit professionally since thirteen, when he supplied a devotional procession. Under the garden fungi, he slips an extra melon into the basket of someone apparently requiring no receipt.

Paul Moer once toured the lower galleries with Benny Carter. Today he arranges wedding tables in the Plaza of Innovation, measuring a generous turning circle for Charles Mingus’s mobility chair.

Milton Banana, formerly a kitchen assistant, runs a three-person sweet stall in the Machine Market. Nine Odeon canteens order his fungal custards; he makes his name larger than the ingredients.

Miles Davis arrived on an engineering scholarship in 1944; by 1945 he was working with Charlie Parker on Level 52. He now tattoos terrace maps onto honeymooners, checking access closures first.

Dwike Mitchell and Willie Ruff travel between universities and municipal halls teaching courtship knots. On the Echoing Tunnel’s stone benches, two elderly pupils dispute which knot constitutes a binding proposal.

Kenny Burrell’s midnight-blue cloth is a classic of the Blue Note weaving house. At the Machine Market, he holds it beneath three different fungal lamps while a customer considers looking slightly less married.

Chico Hamilton learnt embroidery from Jo Jones during military service. On an Echoing Tunnel bench, he stitches luminous fungi onto his grandson’s trousers while the boy is still wearing them.

The kitchen tap squeaks when turned left.

BATTLE JAZZ GALACTICA

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