JakeChambers

@omahaceleb: don't worry, I haven't thought about retiring yet. I've just reduced the frequency of my reviews, which seems natural to me after spending some time on debaser. Usually, I don't include the tracklist, but this one felt very significant and functional to the discourse I wanted to have. @muito: on October 30th, Rita is performing in duo with guitarist Nguye Lé at S.Lazzaro di Savena (Bologna). Can you make it? It's only 686 km... Thanks to everyone else for the comments and the nice thoughts for Rick Wright.

My God, what an unfortunate coincidence... I believe that Rita thought a lot about Richard Wright while arranging the songs. I hope this review can be read as a tiny tribute to his memory.

@Il_Paolo: you're right, I sprinkle ashes on my head and ask for forgiveness. The wizard of Segrate was in "Grand Hotel Excelsior." Unfortunately, I also saw that one in the cinema. The confusion can be attributed to post-traumatic shock amnesia.

"Beyond The Missouri Sky," which is a fantastic album, is a collaboration with a remarkable jazz musician, Charlie Haden. As I've said elsewhere, I don't consider Pat Metheny a fundamental jazz guitarist. His merits lie elsewhere. Metheny is a great communicator of jazz, and in this field, for me, he is the best of all. With the Pat Metheny Group, he has developed, expanded, and brought to a broader audience a language that already existed before (listen to "Native Dancer" by Wayne Shorter with Milton Nascimento, from '74). "Song X" helped introduce Ornette Coleman to an audience that probably was unaware of his existence and would never have purchased "Free Jazz" or "Change Of The Century." I am convinced that most people who have approached jazz not through study, but from other listening experiences, should thank Pat Metheny for helping them enter this world in the most pleasant and painless way. Innovators are needed, but so are communicators. And communicators, alas, are those who risk the most, as they progress through their careers, of "always sounding the same."

If anyone doubts that some sentient biped ever paid money to see this movie... here I am. The excuses like "I was young and inexperienced" hold up to a certain point, since even back then, it was a chilling experience, the worst of the worst of the worst of 80s Craxian horror. Abatantuono, still chubby and equipped with his stinking Apulian-Milanese twang, playing "the magician of Segrate" with his "levitation" experiments (hilarious, right?). The decent Paolo Panelli is forced to deliver a pathetic and vulgar "E sticazzi?", while Pozzetto becomes an ever-growing status symbol of homophobia with his omnipresent jokes about "culattoni". Moments of pure splatter that have indelibly marked the life and hopes of a poor boy in the "E la nava va" demo-socialist Italy. Don't let your kids see this, for God's sake. I apologize to all the films that deserve a serious rating, but debaser won't let me give a lower score.

Ah Iside, thank you for the link! :-) I really like Salis, even in cabaret style.

I remember this... Great review, as always.

Yes, yes, YES!

Excellent and plentiful, as always.

He is a genius, and that's it. "Technique and composition... EXCEL?"