All those Talkin’ Loud types may have moved on to Bossa Nova or two step, but over in France Ludovic Navarre is staying close to the traditions of his American label, Blue Note. Having laid out a dance-floor jazz manifesto on ‘Boulevard’, he reconstituted himself as St Germain and brought out ‘Tourist’, with its infectious ‘Rose Rouge’ that has got audiences shuffling their feet and grinding their hips, eschewing of more traditional forms of jazz appreciation such as the knowing nod.
