[Nick Zwar]

Not too long ago, I came across an Ennio Morricone score for a movie starring Kirk Douglas, called “Un Uomo da Rispettare” (The Master Touch) from 1972.
I had never heard of the movie or score before, but this became a favorite right away, it’s musically up there with the best Morricone scores, and I was surprised again by Morricone’s versatility. The score mixes avant-garde techniques with echoplex, Jazz fusion and trumpet (a bit remeniscent of Chet Baker’s sound… Morricone had actually done some collaborations with Chet Baker some years earlier). It’s really a dynamite “jazz(y) album”.

This is the first track, it’s almost 12 minutes long.
Un Uomo da Rispettare