At first, the coin is flipped. Chicagojazzen plays the heel to Ulf’s anthem. Chicagojazzen, like Eva Garbor, chooses metropolis, the meddler’s paradise: a version that is softly blighted: a city, simplified and censored, from the pen of a playwright. We see lurking; we see a light rain that will not stop. The water, when standing, is tall enough to splash onto suits when struck.
The entrance into Chicagojazzen’s TV movie afterlife sequence is heralded with drum crashes and bright brass; their cheerful and celebratory power undermines the cool crime jazz scene of the first half. The final portion is clean-cut, at one with its environment, at home, with its feet up. The dog delivers the paper.
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