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Paris

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If you think Malcolm McLaren is all Sex Pistols and Bow Wow Wow, this is going to really surprise you.

This is an experience of atmospheric tracks, different beats of an ethic diversity that takes you unknowingly on a trip around the world in a very comfortable fashion. Listen to Sting's Brand New Day (which he has just released), and you'll see where he got the idea from. This album predates Sting by 5 years and where he uses Indian beats and Sitar, McLaren uses Middle Eastern Soufi beats (on one track) to greater effect. The second disc which is an instrumental mix of the first disc shows where dance music is now heading after it has chewed up and spat out the already regurgitated Latin beat.

Quite honestly a seminal album that MUST be in your collection even though I largely hate the more music spoof,commercial rubbish McLaren has produced in his time. Buy it, listen to it and you'll be as surprised as I was.

P.S. I don't know Malcolm personally (this ain't propaganda)

This album is a labor of love on many levels; an homage to Miles Davis, a letter to the great beyond for Sid Vicious, and so much more.

"Jazz is Paris" is a sublime, dense, gorgeous paean to darkest Paris. Catherine Deneuve, guest on "Paris Paris" simply moves you.

There is not one misstep here, and it's perhaps one of the most remarkably evocative recordings I've ever heard. I can't say enough, so just listen for yourself...

Pour a black coffee, and spin one million times.

I guess not--I'm absolutely in love with it--as I am with the City that this amazing collection of music is named for. Track 13, disc 1 is everything you ever want to experience about Paris without being in the city itself. The instrumental version of this song--track 7, on disc 2 is played over and over and over at my house. If you know what it is to love Paris you'll come to adore this album.

I first became aware of MM with Duck Rock but only realized his genius when I saw the video for Madama Butterfly--about a dozen strikingly beautiful women lounging in a sauna while the music plays--absolute, artistic brilliance. i thought it was the best video i'd ever, and have seen. Malcolm has a great eye for what's classy and beautiful, and with this album he proves tht he has the ear for it as well.

If it's embarrasing Catherine Deneuve into singing or turning a classic Erik Satie tune into a hot jazzy trumpet number, Malcolm pushes buttons nobody even knew we had. BRAVO!!!

This work is absolutely critical to those who listen to music of any kind. Sure, it's full of sentimental schmaltz - but the schmaltz is brilliant! As a matter of fact, it's so good that I'm ordering the 2 CD version of this apocalyptic work. For a detailed review of the actual tracks, just check out the other reviews.

This album is a journey through all the emotions paris evokes. It's diverse, yet balanced tracks, take you on a breathless ride that lifts and inspires the listener. This is an album you play from start to finish over and over again- each time discovering something new.

a combination of so many moods and stiles, with the hand of a musical genious, mclaren. It tells a story of this city, along with an amazing atmosphere. one of the few albms I played over and over again, and I'm not even a jazz fan, just a fan of good music. just go ahead and own it...

This CD really is a brilliant work of Jazz & Pop mixed music. Beutiful vocals of Catherine Deneuve, Amina, F. Hardy, african choir and Malcolm of course. Paris Paris, Jazz is Paris, Revenge of the Flowers & La main Parisienne are the best compositions of this work. Little bit eccentric work, but Paris could sound like that ...

J'adore Cette disque! Tres Parisienne! This is by far one of the chic-est and most seductive CDs ever made. It's so effortlessly cool and stylish! And yes, la musique is amazing too! Mclaren puts the pop in jazz!

J'adore Cette disque! Tres Parisienne! This is by far one of the chic-est and most seductive CDs ever made. It's so effortlessly cool and stylish! And yes, la musique is amazing too! Mclaren puts the pop in jazz!

I don't know what to say, it blew me away, too...