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Mario Romano Quartet: Valentina

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 8, 2011

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 ...

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Mario Romano Quartet: Valentina

Read "Valentina" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
December 10, 2010

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 ...

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Mario Romano Quartet: Valentina

Read "Valentina" reviewed by Larry Taylor

by Larry Taylor
December 9, 2010

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 ...