Tension.

Pas beaucoup de mots. Le crépitement du diamant. Greg change de tempo, surprend le Président avec un free jazz abrasif. On entre dans la zone rouge.

🌎 Your FM duel between le Président and Greg de Villanova, serves up full-length jazz tracks and a bit of French backchat between sides. This edition moves from Grant Green’s hard-bop bite on “Grantstand” to Miles Davis’s pre-ledger apprenticeship, then into the cult-collector shadows of Shamek Farrah & Sonelius Smith. Don Sleet, Freddie Redd and Art Blakey keep the pressure on.

1. Grantstand - Grant Green.
2. My Funny Valentine - Miles Davis.
3. Conversation Piece - Shamek Farrah & Sonelius Smith.
4. Fast Company - Don Sleet.
5. O.D. - Freddie Redd.
6. Moanin’ With Hazel - Art Blakey.

📝 Cr₂Fe₃·τ-43⋮X, 4 August 2025(Planet number 34)

Stepped pyramids rise above ivy-choked tenements; damp plaster sheds painted jaguars into café cups. With the eastern causeway closed by fighting, levitating maize barges now queue over the plaza.

Le Président claims the shady half of their café table. Greg de Villanova moves the parasol. Its pole passes through a rationed tortilla, which neither accepts responsibility for replacing.

Lou Donaldson persuades Grant Green to leave his village for the capital. By lunchtime, Green has a turquoise-tiled tortilla stall beneath the cracked pyramid and three marriage proposals from neighbouring vendors.

Miles Davis shaves a bridegroom beneath the plaza’s rusted awning. Before opening his own stall, he apprenticed with Charlie Parker, Coleman Hawkins, Billy Eckstine and Benny Carter. His customer requests all four moustaches.

Shamek Farrah and Sonelius Smith inspect a collector’s offering of six cacao beans for their earliest sweet mould. Ivy enters the gallery roof; their once-unfashionable clay jaguars now require authentication.

Don Sleet, once tipped for the imperial ballcourt, plays for oranges beside the dry river. He keeps his embroidered professional sash folded beneath his sandals while children argue over the score.

Freddie Redd unrolls his plan for the Connection, a suspended lovers’ walkway between stepped pyramids. The council specifies rationed blue glaze; he measures whether couples can pass without disengaging.

Art Blakey joined Fletcher Henderson’s kitchen in 1943, then Billy Eckstine’s larger establishment the following year. At the communal workshop feast, he reserves the salvaged engine casing for steaming tamales.

The sugar bowl has acquired ants.

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