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Madeleine Peyroux's incredible version of Anjani's "Blue Alert" is now used in an Old Navy commercial for jeans. They have used a section of the song without the naughty parts though ("you even touch yourself, you're such a flirt!")

The commercial features a bunch of young teenagers doing silly teenager things in their skinny blue jeans. I'm hoping now that people will start googling "old navy jeans commercial music" and discover more of Madeleine Peyroux's music. Hopefully they will buy the CD rather than downloading it from bit-torrents. Her three last CDs are all well worth purchasing.

It's nice to see someone who plays jazz able to make a living from their music without having to compromise artistically. I had the pleasure to see Peyroux perform at the Vancouver Jazz Festival this year and the concert was all that I could have wished for.

I was especially pleased to find out that Peyroux herself plays all the rhythm guitar parts while she sings. I didn't realize that from listening to the recordings. She has a great sense of rhythm. Her phrasing while singing is also especially well developed. She's brave and talented enough to sing the songs in very different ways than she did on the albums and still it all seems to come out just right.

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