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Aldo Romano - Complete Communion To Don Cherry (2010) {Dreyfus Jazz FDM 46050369662}
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© 2010 Dreyfus Jazz | FDM 46050369662
Jazz / Post Bop / Contemporary Jazz / Drums

Just released, 15 years after Don Cherry's death, and 45 years after the release of the original "Complete Communion", this French band gives its interpretation of the suite, on the initiative of master drummer Aldo Romano, with master bassist Henri Texier on bass, and with a young horn front with Géraldine Laurent on sax and Fabrizio Bosso on trumpet.

Aldo Romano - Night Diary (1980) {OWL Records 9847542 rel 2007}
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© 1980, 2007 Owl Records / EmArcy / Universal | OWL 018 / 984 754 2
Jazz / Post Bop / Contemporary Jazz / Drums

Beautiful record by Aldo Romano (1980), varied and inspired. Beautiful compositions in areas of chiaroscuro. Didier Lockwood on a few tracks. Although born in Italy, Aldo Romano moved to France with his family at a young age. He was already playing guitar and drums professionally in Paris in the '50s when he heard Donald Byrd's group with drummer Arthur Taylor. Since then, he has dedicated himself to the drums and contemporary jazz.

Aldo Romano - Non Dimenticar (1993) {Polygram–MLP 518 264-2}
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© 1993 Polygram / MLP | 518 264-2
Jazz / Post Bop / Contemporary Jazz / Drums

On this disc, drummer Aldo Romano leads an Italian supergroup to revisit some of the Italian folk repertoire.
Yes, that includes 0 sole mio and a brisk Volare but the prospective purchaser should have no fears; it is all good stuff. Paolo Fresu, doubling trumpet and flugelhorn, sounds like a more forceful Miles Davis (from the late 1950s) especially when muted while on the beautiful Estate (by Bruno Martino) he reminds me of Chet Baker as he explores the lowest register of his instrument. Pianist Franco D'Andrea's work should be another inducement to investigate this release which, if typical, indicates that Italian jazz is in a very healthy state. Recommended.

Aldo Romano - Inner Smile (2011) {Dreyfus Jazz}
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© 2011 Dreyfus Jazz | FDM 45050 36 974 2
Jazz / Post Bop / Drums / Trumpet

"Inner Smile" is the new 2011 studio album from drummer, Aldo Romano - recorded in his country of origin : Italy. The track ‘Inner Smile’ first appeared on Romano’s 1997 Verve album ‘Intervista’. He has surrounded himself here with a top quartet : Enrico Rava on trumpet, Baptiste Trotignon, piano and Thomas Bramerie on bass.

Aldo Romano - Ritual (1988) {Owl Records 7898092 rel 1993}
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© 1988, 1993 Owl Records | 7898092
Jazz / Post Bop / Contemporary Jazz / Drums

Aldo Romano's Ritual has both an Italian connection and a French connection – French because the post-bop CD was recorded in Paris for a French company (Owl Records), Italian in that all of the musicians are Italian (including drummer Romano, trumpeter/flugelhornist Paolo Fresu, pianist Franco D'Andrea, and bassist Furio Di Castri). If a person could only own one of Romano's Owl releases, To Be Ornette to Be would be the logical choice – that excellent Ornette Coleman tribute is the best thing he recorded for Owl. But Ritual isn't bad. Although not as essential as To Be Ornette to Be, this is a decent post-bop outing that finds Romano performing his own compositions exclusively.