Répliques.

Dans le ciel étoilé des missiles du Président mis à terre par les batteries anti-aériennes de Greg de Villanova, la bataille fait rage et enrage les deux protagonistes. Tous aux abris, les vinyles rares comme les plus conventionnels pleuvent et inondent l'air de la douce mélodie d'une émission qui vous tiendra éveillé jusqu'au petit matin. Le fracas assourdissant de leurs bêtises rigolotes restera encore longtemps en suspension dans vos oreilles choquées de tant de mauvaise foi.

🌎 Le Président and Greg de Villanova serve up full-length jazz tracks from Dizzy Gillespie’s bent-trumpet swagger on “The Champ” to the architectural cool of Lennie Tristano, with side streets through Jackie McLean, Roland Kirk, Booker Little and John Coltrane. There’s hard bop, post-bop, West Coast poise and a few sly blues detours, plus Parisian sparring between le Président and Greg de Villanova: crate-diggers in mock combat, trading vinyl blows with excellent bad faith.

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.
9. Cannonbal Adderley - Mercy, Mercy, Mercy.
10. Soul Sister - Dexter Gordon.
11. A New Moan - Al Cohn.
12. A Moment’s Notice - Al Cohn.
13. Like Someone In Love - Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers.
14. I Can’t Get Started - Louis Smith Quintet.
15. Equipoise - Max Roach.
16. Pitfall - Marty Paich Quartet.

📝 Qb₁·θ3-24⋮X, 7 October, 2024(Planet number 13)

Under low clouds, wet-earth smells rise between sun-baked brick houses. Traders stretch awnings across courtyard alleys; a requisition notice reserves every third canal barge for the war.

Le Président claims his washing has priority on the courtyard’s heated rail. Greg de Villanova produces yesterday’s booking tablet. Both continue hanging socks while the attendant fetches a calendar.

Dizzy Gillespie serves date syrup through a copper spout accidentally bent by a falling brick. He prefers the resulting spiral. Customers in the Artisan Quarter now refuse the straight-spouted jug.

Jackie McLean abandons stiff ceremonial coats for tunics with levitating sleeves. She keeps his familiar indigo dye, her fitting tablet specifies. He measures her doorway before increasing the wingspan.

Serge Chaloff, one of Woody Herman’s celebrated Four Brothers roof-racers, oils his sandals beside the Central Plaza. His youngest admirer asks him to sign a brick, then requests help carrying it.

Roland Kirk waters three courtyard balconies through separate reed siphons held between his lips. He adjusts each stream with his tongue while the upstairs tenant moves her washing.

Booker Little’s brilliant career designing floating courtyards ends at twenty-three when his eyesight fails inspection. At his retirement lunch, he dictates an extension to the cake stand.

John Coltrane conceives his wedding observance as a four-part spiritual devotion. In the Whispering Gardens, he arranges four offering bowls; his fiancée transfers the largest figs to hers.

Lennie Tristano improvises supper according to a clay grid of temperatures and contrasting textures. His guests sit in the mudbrick courtyard while he calculates where the pickled onions enter.

Weldon Irvine’s puppet play combines palace etiquette, gutter jokes and commentary on flour prices. In the spice market, children pay extra to operate the minister’s jaw.

Cannonball Adderley teaches school arithmetic before becoming a celebrated levitation wrestler. Queueing for rationed sesame oil, he corrects a former pupil’s sums on the back of an autograph tablet.

Dexter Gordon slips familiar passages from municipal decrees into his love letters. Beneath a courtyard fig tree, his sweetheart reads the clause concerning unauthorised occupation of desirable premises.

Al Cohn, another of Woody Herman’s Four Brothers roof-racers, spends his rest day bleaching pillowcases beside the communal kiln. He asks spectators to stop timing him.

Al Cohn and his longstanding racing partner, Zoot Sims, inspect a tandem roof-skimmer. They disagree about its colour while automatically tightening bolts on opposite sides.

Art Blakey kneads festival buns with sustained palm pressure and sudden explosive slaps. Across the Mudbrick Workshop, customers recognise his technique without looking up from their brick moulds.

Louis Smith’s seal-mould venture loses its sponsor, Transition. Alfred Lion of Blue Note buys the moulds; Cannonball Adderley still appears as ‘Buckshot La Funke’ on the sample tablets drying in the Artisan Quarter.

Max Roach, a founder of courtyard bounce-ball, teaches children the original footwork on ancient plaza paving. A supply lorry occupies the goal. Play continues underneath it.

Marty Paich sets folding stools around a wedding courtyard. Though an accomplished furniture maker, he is better known across the western districts for seating divorced relatives without obstructing the cake.

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