Aldo Romano

Aldo Romano (born January, 1941 Belluno, Italy) is a free jazz drummer. He also started a rock group in 1971.

He moved to France as a child and by the 1950s he played guitar and drums professionally in Paris, but his career gained notice when he started working with Don Cherry in 1963. He 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 had his first album as a leader. In the 1980s he returned to his earlier style for several albums. Although most of his life has been in France he retained an affection for Italy and set-up a quartet of Italian jazz musicians. He also played a role in the start of French-born Italian-French pianist Michel Petrucciani. In 2004 he won the Jazzpar Prize.