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Blood Brothers - Help Yourself

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Written by: Giovanni "Gio" Pilato
Published: November 12, 2025

Within the Blues/Rock business worldwide, there was a lot of trepidation about the release of Blood Brothers’ second album, especially given the exceptional amount of accolades received from fans of the genre and press, when their debut album was originally released in 2023.

A very successful side project of two contemporary giants of the genre, Mike Zito and Albert Castiglia, the project is a natural development of a personal and musical friendship between the two artists that has been going on for almost two decades, an artistic and human collaboration that, in time, brought the American guitarists and singer/songwriters to record an album together that would chisel even more their musical and personal bond.

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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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