Aldo Romano
Aldo Romano is an Italian jazz drummer. He also founded a rock group in 1971.
Biography
He was born in Belluno, Italy. Romano moved to France as a child and by the 1950s he was playing guitar and drums professionally in Paris, but he first gained attention when he started working with Don Cherry in 1963. He recorded with Steve Lacy, and would go on to tour with Dexter Gordon among others. In the 1970s, he moved into rock-influenced forms of jazz fusion 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, Michel Petrucciani. In 2004 he won the Jazzpar Prize.Discography
As leader/co-leader
- Divieto Di Santificazione with Jean-Francois Jenny-Clark
- Il Piacere
- Night Diary
- Alma Latina
- Ritual
- Eric Barret/Aldo Romano/Henri Texier
- To Be Ornette to Be
- Ten Tales with Joe Lovano
- Dreams & Waters
- Yesterday's Tomorrow with Ron McClure, John Abercrombie
- Non Dimenticar
- Prosodie
- Intervista
- Because of Bechet
- Threesome
- The Jazzpar Prize
- Corners
- Chante
- Flower Power
- Etat De Fait
- Just Jazz
- Complete Communion to Don Cherry
- Desireless
- Origine
- Inner Smile
- Plays the Connection
- Liberi Sumus
- Melodies En Noir & Blanc
- ''La Belle Vie''
As sideman
- Sunbird
- Transparence
- Togetherness
- Live at Cafe Montmartre 1966
- Poor Memory
- Dream Drops
- Opium for Franz – recorded in 1976; 3 tracks reissued on Opium
- Impressions of New York
- Oceans in the Sky
- Jazz Realities
- Disposability
- Sortie
- Epistophy
- Flash
- Michel Petrucciani
- Estate
- Playground
- Enrico Rava Quartet
- Carnet de Routes
- Suite Africaine
- ''African Flashback''