About 12 months ago, Filippini released Breathing In Unison, which revealed the enormous strides in his playing since 2003's Love Is The Thing And The Blues Too, which although it was his fourth album, was the first under his own name with a trio. By anybody's standards it was an impressive album by the then 20 year-old. Here he returns, like Love Is The Thing, to standards, this time as a celebration of his regular working trio of 10 years. You have to be pretty good to come up with something new and interesting on tunes like ‘Autumn Leaves’, ‘Impressions’ (which he reharmonises), ‘Moon River’ or ‘’Round Midnight’. Filippini is the business; he's not afraid to call on electronica to make an artistic point (“Round Midnight’, ‘Stolen Moments’), but his real strength is playing acoustic piano with acoustic bass and drums accompaniment. It's no exaggeration to say Filippini is now up there with the top European pianists like his fellow countryman Enrico Pieranunzi, John Taylor from the UK and Emil Viklicky from the Czech Republic, and that's some company.