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Mario Romano: The Journey So Far

Read "The Journey So Far" reviewed by Edward Blanco


Argentinian-born, Canadian-based pianist Mario Romano delivers his fourth album as leader with The Journey So Far, essentially a compilation project that takes tracks from previously recorded albums and presents them in new light. A successful real-estate developer with a strong musical background, Romano spent most of his life building a business career and after achieving uncommon success, returned to jazz after 2010. He has since become an integral part of the Canadian jazz scene and has created a high-profile with ...

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Mario Romano Quartet: Valentina

Read "Valentina" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Primo album nelle vesti di leader per il pianista canadese Mario Romano, a capo di un quartetto solidissimo - completato da Pat LaBarbera, Roberto Occhipinti e Mark Kelso - che ben esprime, attraverso la rilettura di alcuni classici della storia del jazz e un paio di interessanti originali, il fondamentale concetto di interplay. Valentina si snoda attraverso un percorso di fascino estremo. Si va dalla sempre verde “Night in Tunisia" dove sono i lunghi chorus di LaBarbera a mettere i ...

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Mario Romano Quartet: Valentina

Read "Valentina" reviewed by Edward Blanco


Canadian pianist Mario Romano--founder and president of the Castlepoint Group--is well-known in the Toronto Italian-Canadian community--not so much as a pianist, but as a major player in the real estate development industry. Valentina, is Romano's first album as a leader, returning to jazz music after nearly four decades of deferring to development deals. While unfamiliar to most jazz audiences, during the early '70s he was a highly regarded young gun on the Toronto jazz scene. A serious and committed musician, ...

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Mario Romano Quartet: Valentina

Read "Valentina" reviewed by Larry Taylor


Canadian pianist Mario Romano has an interesting history in jazz. An up-and-coming performer in the 1970s, he took a hiatus from the jazz scene when his Toronto construction business became a big success. Now in 2010, he returns to the scene with the release of Valentina. Playing with gusto and creativity, he seems not to have missed a beat over the years; still, at the keyboard, Romano owes a lot to seventies contemporaries including McCoy Tyner and ...


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