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Matt Bianco - Masquerader

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Written by: Giovanni "Gio" Pilato
Published: October 22, 2025

Whenever there is a new record release coming from the Jazz-Latin-R&B inspired British sensation Matt Bianco, there is always an uplifting mood in the air.

A band that has topped the Top 10 charts of half the world, back in 1984, through the debut album called Whose Side Are You On?, Matt Bianco, originally a trio counting, in its line-up, keyboard player Danny White and vocalists Basia Trzetrzelewska and Mark Reilly, is now left with the sole Reilly running gloriously the band's name, after White and Trzetrzelewska left on their own accord.

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Rolf Thofte Quintet - Martha's Dance

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Written by: Giovanni "Gio" Pilato
Published: October 19, 2025

Our website has come across more and more, in recent times, to the phenomenal current Scandinavian Jazz scene.

Sweden and Denmark, particularly, seem to be able to keep on producing artists of the finest level, with the innate capability to incorporate in their reading of Contemporary Jazz inspired elements of inventiveness in their compositional approach which, combined with their exceptional many musical talents, make possible for them to deliver records of the highest possible quality.

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Max Richter - Sleep Circle

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Written by: Giovanni "Gio" Pilato
Published: October 09, 2025

About 10 years ago, one of the most interesting and ambitious music projects called Sleep, a composition made of eight and half hour of music, was released by the renowned German-born British composer and pianist Max Richter, reaching the remarkable goal to be the first classical composition to reach 1 billion streams worldwide.

When this magniloquent record was originally planned, the intent of the pianist and composer was to create a journey into a human mind during the sleeping cycle, more specifically, between wakefulness and sleep, where our minds create dreams.

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