Matt Bianco - Gravity Deluxe (2019) [24bit FLAC]

Some things just get better with time. Red wine and self-confi dence, for instance, or Matt Bianco. The legendary British group, named after an imaginary Sixties super-spy in the Eighties, is adored around the world for hits like Half A Minute, Get Out Of Your Lazy Bed, Whose Side Are You On, or Yeh Yeh. For their fifteenth album Gravity, front-man, vocalist and songwriter Mark Reilly recruited a superb new band featuring Swedish sax- and flute-star Magnus Lindgren and a large chunk of Jamie Cullums group. Their mission: reviving and modernizing Matt Biancos Bossa- and Jazz-roots, while keeping the easy going swing of former successes, built around the singularly recognizable Dry-Martini-voice of Mark Reilly. The result is an energetic, yet relaxed collection with five new songs, with enough gravity to please their most sophisticated admirers and plenty of new fans, who might have been bitten by the Jazz-bug via a Gregory Porter or Jamie Cullum.