In Extenso.

Vos deux sumos du jazz parisien se retrouvent dans le cercle pour un second round particulièrement relevé sous une chaleur accablante. Greg de Villanova et le Président suent à grosses gouttes pour vous faire écouter ce qu'ils ont de meilleur et ratatiner leurs prétentions réciproques, n'hésitant pas à diffuser en entier leurs plus belles faces incunables de vinyles précieux.

🌎 Le Président and Greg de Villanova serve up full-length jazz tracks with brief French banter between cuts, and this episode moves from hard bop muscle to cooler refinements: Donald Byrd and Kenny Burrell on "Body & Soul", Sonny Rollins on "Hold’em Joe", then Jutta Hipp, Art Farmer, and Bill Evans Trio. Add Coltrane, Miles Davis and Art Blakey, and you’ve got trumpet, trombone, saxophone and piano from the sharp end of bebop, hard bop and cool jazz.

1. Body & Soul - Donald Byrd & Kenny Burrell.
2. Hold’em Joe - Sonny Rollins.
3. Just Blues - Jutta Hipp.
4. Le cri - Michel Roques.
5. Two Different Worlds - Curtis Fuller.
6. Change Partners - Art Farmer.
7. Olé - John Coltrane.
8. Garvey’s Strut - Hal Singer & Jef Gilson.
9. Blue Room - Thad Jones.
10. The Groits - Andrew Hill.
11. Beautiful Love - Bill Evans Trio.
12. Tenth Lament - Sahib Shibab.
13. All of You (Live) - Miles Davis.
14. Pisces - Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers.
15. Softly, As In a Morning Sunrise - Art Pepper.

📝 Zz₁·Ø-92⊗D, 22 July, 2024(Planet 9)

Under an orange haze, traders peg spice awnings to mud-brick walls beneath bronze domes. Terraced gardens drain across the street. At the ziggurat, a clerk stamps travel tablets around the latest convoy restrictions.

Le Président claims their oven token covers two flatbreads. Greg de Villanova points to the second impression, which is a thumbprint. The baker dusts both impressions with flour and waits.

Donald Byrd bargains for ceremonial silk without creasing his robe. Kenny Burrell, whose blue-dyed scarves require no sales pitch, quietly drapes the better cloth over Byrd’s shoulder.

Sonny Rollins suspends public acrobatic appearances but practises on the canal bridge. Between supply barges, he walks the parapet carrying two melons; pedestrians decline to make room.

Jutta Hipp, a northern immigrant and one of the Blue Tile guild’s few women directors, rejects a crooked delivery by rolling an olive down its supposedly level surface.

Michel Roques, prominent in reconstruction after the previous war, chalks a courtyard boundary around a fig tree. Two households dispute the shade; he measures it again after lunch.

Curtis Fuller, among the city’s foremost makers of sliding bronze fittings, adjusts a bathhouse sluice with his heel. Three elderly customers offer instructions without leaving the warm water.

Art Farmer alternates between narrow-necked and broad-bellied perfume flasks with equal assurance. At his lattice window, a customer requests something her husband cannot identify on another woman.

John Coltrane’s interlocking terrace puzzle is compulsory for apprentice surveyors. In the Central Plaza, he watches a candidate rotate the clay model while her friends place small bets.

Hal Singer kneads coarse frontier grain into flatbread while Jef Gilson introduces a fermented garden extract. At the communal ovens, they divide the dough with a ruler.

Thad Jones, of the celebrated Jones family, tries to buy six onions without discussing his brothers. The bazaar greengrocer adds a seventh and asks after his mother.

Andrew Hill studies boundary law with the classical scholar Paul Hindemith. Afterwards, he moves his garden bench across a disputed paving joint and invites the neighbour to sit.

Bill Evans presses a thumb beneath a bathhouse customer’s shoulder blade. Along the tiled wall, younger masseurs copy the pressure; he tells them to warm their hands first.

Sahib Shihab corrects his former name on a marriage tablet outside the bronze-domed mosque. His bride holds the stylus while he explains his conversion to Islam again.

Miles Davis, a founder of the cool-air nursery, hangs damp reed screens beneath its bronze dome. Parents debate sleeping temperatures while he redirects the draught away from a birthday cake.

Art Blakey, formerly a counting-house keyboard operator, pounds flatbread dough beside the communal ovens. His old supervisor queues with a ledger under one arm and butter under the other.

Art Pepper enters the canal regatta with Miles Davis’s usual rowing crew after one practice start. Beneath the ziggurat, he asks which way they intend to turn.

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