Coups.

Ils se détestent, se mordent, s'agonisent. Et pourtant, ils aiment tous les deux le jazz. Greg de Villanova et le Président se font face, pour le meilleur et pour le meilleur. C'est une sorte de concours de qui aura la plus grande collection, la plus reluisante, la plus aimée. Écoutée dans le monde entier, l'émission est composée de beaucoup, beaucoup de notes de musique ; rien que des morceaux entiers, avec de la mauvaise foi entre.

🌎 Once again, Battle Jazz Galactica turns its usual Parisian scrapheap of opinions into 15 slabs of vinyl, with full-length jazz tracks and the sort of short French banter that sounds like a crate-digger’s duel at dawn. Donald Byrd, Cannonball Adderley, Bill Evans, Miles Davis and Grant Green lead a set spanning hard bop, modal jazz, soul jazz and West Coast cool, from “Ghana” and “All Blues” to Chet Baker’s bruised lyricism.

1. Ghana - Donald Byrd.
2. Straight, No Chaser - Cannonball Adderley.
3. Libertad - Henri Texier.
4. I Hear A Rhapsody - Bill Evans & Jim Hall.
5. Sweetheart - Charles Kynard.
6. All Blues - Miles Davis Quintet.
7. Verse - Bobby Hutcherson.
8. Hip Funk - Grant Green.
9. Bethren - Red Holloway.
10. Johnny’s Blues - Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers.
11. The Moana Surf -Duke Pearson.
12. But Not For Me - Chet Baker.
13. Look For The Silver Lining - Chet Baker.
14. The Twins - Grachan Moncur.
15. Arthur’s Blues - Art Pepper.

📝 Zr₃·Δ-42⋮W, 24 March 2025(Planet number 24)

Across the arid plateau, families roof hide yurts with woven grass. Old riverbeds serve as roads; military requisitions leave the passenger sled pulled by two indignant animals.

Le Président claims the market awning’s shade. Greg de Villanova notes that the shade moves with the sun. Neither surrenders his stool.

Donald Byrd, formerly with Art Blakey’s dispatch riders, runs a caravan. Between trips, he teaches arithmetic, accepting herbs from pupils and tougher terms from parents.

Cannonball Adderley enters a wrestling contest outside the trading post. Miles Davis recruits him for a surveying expedition. Adderley asks whether lunch is included.

Henri Texier collects travellers’ fastening techniques. Customers test French knots against plateau dust while he quietly borrows a grandmother’s ingenious bone toggle.

Bill Evans discusses sharing a yurt with Scott LaFaro and Paul Motian. All three dispute sleeping arrangements. Jim Hall quietly measures the remaining space.

Charles Kynard serves blue-root stew at the communal hearth, leaving skins on and doubling the dripping. He objects when an official calls it refined.

Miles Davis sells his hide-bound Blue Atlas. Though he quit surveying academy, qualified surveyors queue outside his yurt to buy his corrections.

Bobby Hutcherson tests vibrating metal plates over a vanished river. A passing herder sets her teacup on the apparatus and requests a gentler setting.

Grant Green cuts sinuous grooves into hide bracelets. Young stamp-makers buy his worn dies, turning yesterday’s patterns into tomorrow’s fashionable boot soles.

Red Holloway tells earthy stories at a formal genealogy gathering. Elders maintain ceremonial expressions while a bride requests the story about her grandfather again.

Art Blakey trains caravan cooks at the communal hearth. His rolling pin rattles, followed by two unmistakable blows. Apprentices arrive carrying flour.

Duke Pearson arranges wedding caravans from a hilltop, adjusting coloured pennants until even the bride’s quarrelling uncles approach in elegant formation.

Chet Baker paints portraits beneath a patched awning. Customers request his Valentine pose. He turns a shepherd towards the light and excludes the sheep.

Chet Baker remains a plateau celebrity. At the riverbed races, three admirers offer shaded benches. He chooses the one nearest the dumpling seller.

Grachan Moncur III designs yurts. His latest has two entrances but no front. Guests circle the walls, arguing over which entrance leads to the kitchen.

Art Pepper learnt buckle-making at nine and hide-cutting at thirteen, competing against adults before sixteen. He trims saddles while older craftsmen inspect his scraps.

The upstairs tap is dripping again.

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