Aldo Romano (born 16 January 1941) is an Italian

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drummer. He also founded a

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group in 1971.

Biography

He was born in

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, Italy. Romano moved to France as a child and by the 1950s he was playing guitar and drums professionally in

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, but he first gained attention when he started working with

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in 1963. He recorded with

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, and would go on to tour with

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among others. In the 1970s, he moved into rock-influenced forms of

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and, in 1978, made his first album as a leader. In the 1980s, he returned to his earlier style for several albums. Although he has lived most of his life in France, he has retained an affection for Italy and has set up a quartet of Italian jazz musicians. Romano also played a role in starting the career of French pianist,

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. In 2004 he won the

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Discography

* ''Divieto Di Santificazione'' with Jean-Francois Jenny-Clark (Horo, 1977) * ''Il Piacere'' (Owl, 1979) * ''Night Diary'' (Owl, 1980) * ''Alma Latina'' (Owl, 1983) * ''Ritual'' (Owl, 1988) * ''Eric Barret/Aldo Romano/Henri Texier'' (Carlyne Music, 1988) * ''To Be Ornette to Be'' (Owl, 1989) * '' Ten Tales'' with

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(Owl 1990) * ''Dreams & Waters'' (Owl, 1991) * ''Yesterday's Tomorrow'' with

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, John Abercrombie (European Music Productions, 1991) * ''Non Dimenticar'' (PolyGram, 1993) * ''Prosodie'' (Verve, 1995) * ''Intervista'' (Verve, 1997) * ''Because of Bechet'' (EmArcy/Universal 2002) * ''Threesome'' (Universal 2004) * ''The Jazzpar Prize'' (Enja 2004) * ''Corners'' (Label Bleu 2005) * ''Chante'' (Dreyfus 2005) * ''Flower Power'' (Naive, 2006) * ''Etat De Fait'' (Dreyfus, 2007) * ''Just Jazz'' (Dreyfus, 2008) * ''Complete Communion to Don Cherry'' (Dreyfus, 2010) * ''Desireless'' (Musica Jazz, 2010) * ''Origine'' (Dreyfus 2010) * ''Inner Smile'' (Dreyfuss, 2011) * ''Plays the Connection'' (Dreyfus, 2013) * ''Liberi Sumus'' (Le Triton, 2014) * ''Melodies En Noir & Blanc'' (Le Triton, 2017) * ''La Belle Vie'' (Sunset, 2019)

As sideman

With

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* ''

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'' (JMS-Cream, 1979) With

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Trio * ''Transparence'' (1986) With

* '' Togetherness'' (

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, 1965) * '' Live at Cafe Montmartre 1966'' (3 volumes) (ESP-Disk, 1966) With

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* ''Poor Memory'' (Splasc(h), 1987) With

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* ''Dream Drops'' (Owl, 1982) With

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and

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* '' Opium for Franz'' (Pipe, 1977) – recorded in 1976; 3 tracks reissued on ''

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'' (Between the Lines, 2001) With

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and

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* '' Impressions of New York'' (

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, 1967) With

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* ''Oceans in the Sky'' (Owl, 1990) With

* '' Jazz Realities'' (

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, 1966) * '' Disposability'' (RCA

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1966) * ''

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'' (GTA, 1966) * '' Epistophy'' (

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, 1969) With

* ''Flash'' (Bingow, 1980) * ''Michel Petrucciani'' (Owl, 1981) * ''

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'' (IRD, 1982) * ''

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'' (

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, 1991) With

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* '' Enrico Rava Quartet'' (ECM, 1978) With

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, and Guy Le Querrec * ''Carnet de Routes'' (Label Bleu, 1995) * ''Suite Africaine'' (Label Bleu, 1999) * ''African Flashback'' (Label Bleu, 2005)

References

External links

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