Musical

Étonnant et Incroyable, cette semaine Battle Jazz Galactica est une comédie musicale. Enfin ! Un spectacle radiophonique digne des plus grandes affiches de Broadway. Déguisés, Greg de Villanova et le Président donnent ce soi, toute l'étendue de leurs talents et feront rêver pendant deux heures. Ils chantent, ils dansent, ils jouent mille personnages au service d'une intrigue terriblement métaphysique, et ce toujours en se détestant, toujours en se tapant dessus l'un l'autre armés de leurs seules passions pour le funk et le jazz de grande qualité.

🌎 This week, Battle Jazz Galactica turns into a full-blown musical comedy, starring Le Président and Greg de Villanova as two feuding crate-diggers who somehow manage to sing their way through a vinyl duel. The score features full-length jazz tracks from John Jenkins, Harold Land and Lloyd McNeill to Jimmy McGriff, Johnny Hammond Smith and Hank Mobley, with guest appearances by Sun Ra and Billie Holiday. Hard bop, soul jazz, cosmic swing and plenty of theatrical bad faith. No choreography rehearsed, no peace treaty signed.

1. Chalumeau - John Jenkins.
2. Asha - The Lloyd McNeill Quartet.
3. I Hear Ya Talkin’ - Frank Wess.
4. Space Mates - Sun Ra & His Myth Science Arkestra.
5. Special - Junior Mance.
6. Gary Bartz - It Don’t Mean a Thing.
7. Blue Juice - Jimmy McGriff.
8. Billie Holiday - Lover Come Back To Me.
9. You’re My Thrill - Harold Land.
10. Two-Thirds Pleasure -  The Lloyd McNeill Quartet.
11. Workout - Hank Mobley.
12. For People Only - Johnny Hammond Smith.
13. I Want to be Happy - Oscar Peterson.
14. Cantaloupe Island - Herbie Hancock.
15. I Can’t Get Started. - Curtis Counce.
16. Earl's World - Charles Tolliver & Music Inc.

📝 Zn₆·ʍ-44⋮L, 30 March 2025(Planet number 23)

Spice dust settles in the mosaics of vast mud-brick warehouses. Beneath the crumbling ziggurats, merchants argue over awning space; military freight has first claim on the functioning gate.

Le Président insists their hired shade belongs above his chair. Greg de Villanova produces the bazaar contract, which specifies two shoulders rather than two passengers. The porter keeps walking.

John Jenkins made very few glazed cups in the late fifties. At his bazaar stall, collectors examine their maker’s marks while his granddaughter drinks tamarind cordial from a chipped example.

Lloyd McNeill teaches children perspective by having them paint the artisans’ quarter walls. He charges extra for portraits; several fathers now appear considerably taller than the ziggurat behind them.

Frank Wess tends both the broad bath conduits and the fine rooftop mist pipes. Tonight he directs the latter towards his wife’s garden bench. Below, bathers knock their ladles against the masonry.

Sun Ra explains his celestial ancestry to a gate clerk examining his mirrored robes. His household waits beneath an awning, dressed for the same journey. The clerk requests something establishing residence.

Junior Mance folds forty dumplings a minute, then spoons his grandmother’s pepper gravy over them. Customers eat standing beside the temple oven, keeping their ration sleeves clear of the sauce.

Gary Bartz once drove Miles Davis’s electric litter. He now takes his sweetheart round the bazaar in a hired model, slowing beside polished copper stalls to inspect their reflection.

Jimmy McGriff learnt cookery from Jimmy Smith but serves considerably fiercer sauces. At his mud-brick lunch counter, customers test a drop before committing their remaining bread.

Billie Holiday tells a familiar courtship story beneath the elder’s hall columns, leaving pauses where other storytellers hurry. A woman starts supplying the ending. Holiday waits until her husband notices.

Harold Land receives his toy patent twenty years after filing it in July 1960. Outside the dusty library, he tests the aiming mechanism on a clerk’s date stone.

Lloyd McNeill binds his own illustrated cosmologies. Devotees exchange them behind the dusty library.

The bathroom light is flickering again.

BATTLE JAZZ GALACTICA

Always the Full Tracks.

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