Échauffement.

Les murs transpirent, les vinyles crissent. Premier round : Greg sort un Grant Green que personne n’avait vu venir. Le Président garde le silence, mais ses yeux sont déjà sur la platine.

🌎 Battle Jazz Galactica lands again with full-length jazz tracks on vinyl and just enough French bickering between Le Président and Greg de Villanova to keep the crate-digging civilised. Here, bebop nerve meets post-bop poise: Dizzy Gillespie’s “The Champ”, Jackie McLean’s “Sweet Love of Mine”, and John Coltrane’s “Chronic Blues” sit beside Serge Chaloff’s baritone agility and Roland Kirk’s long-breathed wizardry. A proper duel of styles, and a few very sharp elbows.

1. The Champ - Dizzy Gillespie.
2. Sweet Love of Mine - Jackie McLean.
3. Slam - Serge Chaloff.
4. And I Love Her - Roland Kirk.
5. Forward Flight - Booker Little.
6. Chronic Blues - John Coltrane.
7. My Melancholy Baby - Lennie Tristano.
8. Turkish Bath - Weldon Irvine.

📝 Pa₈·¥-42⋮Q, 11 August 2025(Planet number 35)

Dust settles in the ziggurats’ worn brickwork. Beneath faded temple frescoes, families bring cushions to the cracked plaza benches; the evening water queue starts early because military convoys have priority at the wells.

Le Président claims the shaded end of a plaza bench. Greg de Villanova produces a clay reservation token. Both ask me to inspect the inscription, which concerns a missing goat.

Dizzy Gillespie auctions shade rights in the Old Bazaar. Cab Calloway dismissed his star salesman after he stamped a tax receipt with a biscuit. He keeps the biscuit beside his scales.

Teenage Jackie McLean grows up around Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins in the courtyard houses. Today, among the Eastern Gardens’ wild herbs, all three advise him on an approaching girl.

Serge Chaloff brings unexpected agility to heavyweight wrestling beneath the abandoned aqueduct. He skips between chalk squares on the sand while his opponent asks someone to move the picnic.

Roland Kirk uses circular breathing to inflate a sugar pomegranate without pausing. Children crowd the artisan workshop’s oil lamps, disputing whose birthday merits the largest fruit.

Booker Little works closely with Eric Dolphy at their matchmaking stall. Beneath a faded awning, they negotiate two families’ dowry tablets while the prospective couple share dates behind the pottery seller.

John Coltrane delivers parcels after early jobs with refreshment carts and large caravans. At Dizzy Gillespie’s urging, he exchanges his narrow sand-skiff for a broad freight sled; his sweetheart requests the front cushion.

Lennie Tristano pioneers layered portraits on light-sensitive clay. In his lamp-lit studio, he exposes the same tablet twice, placing himself on both sides of his mother-in-law. She requests a single son-in-law.

Weldon Irvine mentors young perfume-makers, including Q-Tip. Beside a dry garden fountain, they crush herbs into oil; he makes the apprentices wear their unsuccessful mixtures through lunch.

The fridge magnet keeps sliding down.

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