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Summary: Jazz at its finest
Comment: This is one of the best Jazz cd's that I have ever bought. The rhythm and the beat capture the soul. You must buy this if you love true Jazz.
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Summary: Stone Cold Groove
Comment: Been listening to this for the last three weeks since I got it. If u like acid jazz with a driving bass/precussion backbeat and some incredible keyboard and flute work this is for you.
About 5 very solid tracks, coupla ok ones and one is kinda background music.
Flip on this CD in your car in the nightime, seems to sound better at night, and cruise down road with a head noddin' stone cold groove
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Summary: Rose Rouge Does It For Me
Comment: I especially like the first number, Rose Rouge, but the rest of the CD is enjoyable as well. Also available in an edition with a 2nd CD containing additional mixes.
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Summary: An Instant Classic and St Germain's Best
Comment: Tourist by St. Germain is one of those albums that I doubt I'll ever tire of. Could have been a perfect album without weak tracks, "Montego Bay Spleen" and "What You Think About..." which in my opinion are just average. Nonetheless, the album is great with the now classic "Rose Rouge", "Pont des Arts", and "La Goutte d'Or" topping out as my favorites. Any fan of lounge music or electro-jazz should own a copy of Tourist.
4/5 stars
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Summary: This Classy French Tourist Grooves.
Comment: Saint Germain is not only one of my favorite arrondissements in Paris (known for its cafés, such as Les Deux Magots and Café de Flore, and as the center of the existentialist movement), it is also the name used by French electronica-nu jazz composer-producer, Ludovic Navarre. Tourist is Navarre's 2000 synthesis of electronica, techno, and jazz soloing by Pascal Ohsé on trumpet, Edouard Labor on saxophones and flute, Alexandre Destrez on keyboards, Edmundo Carneiro on percussion, and Claudio De Qeiroz on baritone saxophone. If the music sounds familiar, it's because Navarre samples from jazz greats like Marlena Shaw, Dave Brubeck, Miles Davis, and John Lee Hooker. The album tracks, "Rose Rouge" and "Sure Thing" are reason enough to invest in this CD. The complete track listing includes:
1. Rose Rouge 7:02 (samples Marlena Shaw, Live at Montreux; and the drum and bass loop from Dave Brubeck's Take Five)
2. Montego Bay Spleen 5:44
3. So Flute 8:31
4. Land Of... 7:52
5. Latin Note 5:59
6. Sure Thing 6:22 (samples Miles Davis & John Lee Hooker, Harry's Philosophy)
7. Pont Des Arts 7:27
8. La Goutte D'Or 6:18
9. What You Think About... 4:47
G. Merritt
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