What is spinning?

[Woochifer]

St. Germain - Tourist

Ironic that I'm listening to this because a song from this album ("Sure Thing") is being used for a birth control pill commercial, and we found out only a few days ago that my wife is pregnant!

Here's the commercial on YouTube. The pill being advertised is called YAZ (why isn't Alison Moyet providing the soundtrack?) and this is one of the cheesiest ads I've seen in a while (this trend of trying to incorporate all the legal disclaimers and side effects into the conversation on these prescription drug ads is pretty annoying). Does anybody else have their suspicions that she's not really a medical student?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6nbaEBYR2k

[jrhymeammo]

St. Germain - Tourist

Ahh. That used to be my favorite album. En Laye Cafe by SG totally different. I've also heard a song from that album on a commercial and a movie I cannot remember. I think it was both So Flute, not so sure though.

Went to my favorite record store and picked up some used wax, and I lucked out on alot of excellent original pressings.

Sonny Rollins - Vol. 2 My first audiophile pressing. Excited to hear how good it sounds.
Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx (new)
Hank Jones - Here's Love
Nina Simone - I put a Spell on You
Willis Jackson - Headed and Gutted
Yusef Lateef - The Best of. I've never been a fan of greatest hits compliation but this will do.
Horace Silver - The Cape Verdean Blues
Kenny Drew - Duo 2
Pepper Adams/Frank Foster - Generations
Clifford Brown and Max Roach - Clifford Brown and Max Roach
Don Byas/Bud Powell - A Tribe to Cannonball
Teddy Wilson and his Trio - On the Tour with
Nina Simone - Here Comes the Sun
Pink Floyd - Relic
Clifford Brown - Best Coast Jazz
Oscar Peterson Trio - at the Stanford Shakespearean Festival
Lee Morgan/Hank Mobley - A-1 the Savoy Sessions
Thelonious Monk - THe Unique
Charlie Parker - "Bird" Symbols
Jay Hoggard - Mystic Winds, Tropical Breezes
Nina Simone - Little Girl Blue
Miles Davis - Collection vol. 1, 12 Sides of Miles
Jimmy Smith - Softly as a Summer Breez
Linton Kwesi Johnson - Bass Culture
Stevie Wonder - Innervision, much cleaner copy
Milt Jackson, Frank Wess, Kenny Clark, Hank Jones, Eddie Jones - Opus De Jazz
Earl Hines - Recording Session. Very first album on the lable
Bob Flanigan/John Gray - Togetherness
Booker Ervin - The in Between
Maynard Ferguson - 1969
African Image - Roots (Izimpande)
and a box of Ramen Noodles.... OH YEAH!!!!

Enjoy and will do.

[Woochifer]

Ahh. That used to be my favorite album. En Laye Cafe by SG totally different. I've also heard a song from that album on a commercial and a movie I cannot remember. I think it was both So Flute, not so sure though.

Man, this album has been mined for so many different purposes! I remember "So Flute" being used on at least one commercial. Even the NFL got into the act when they made "Rose Rouge" the unofficial theme song for the season kickoff a few years ago. "Sure Thing" was also used on at least one other national TV commercial that I can recall.

When my wife and I went on our honeymoon to Montreal three years ago, I heard St. Germain's Tourist and Boulevard albums EVERYWHERE. "Sure Thing" was the background music for the tourism office's "Welcome to Montreal" video that ran 24 hours on our hotel room TV, and just about every restaurant, cafe, and lounge had St. Germain spinning. I also heard it with a couple of TV commercials, but since they were in French, I had no idea what they were selling. Of course, it can't be more bizarre than a birth control pill named Yaz! Frankly, that pill commercial would have been a lot better if I had NOT known what product they were selling.

With such saturation play, I wound up buying St. Germain's En Laye Cafe, En Laye Cafe Printemps, and Soho Lounge compilations on that trip. More recently, I've been collecting their Des Pres Cafe nujazz compilations, for which they are now up to Volume 9.

[Bernd]

Last night spinning, the warm glow of Valves, a cool beer and some mellow toones: