Andrea Romani

Born in Cremona (1975), he is a self-taught musician, who abandoned a promising career in an important merchant bank in Italy in the ‘90s, when he first bought a flute. He is one of the few artists who continue the tradition of the flute in jazz.

Andrea Romani tries to blend with this tradition, seeking to create continuity with the line of tradition of Chet Baker who invited the Italian flutist Nicola Stilo to join his band in the 1980s. Andrea Romani considers Nicola Stilo as the main source of learning and inspiration for the jazz flute and has been in constant contact with him in the last years. In 2003 he won a scholarship in Siena Jazz summer workshop to come back the next year and being invited to join the winter lab of improvisation directed by Stefano Battaglia (ECM Records).

In the last five years he pursued his career in Paris, where he set up a quartet with original compositions (with Antoine Paganotti - drums, Daniel Benoit - piano, Nicolas Moreaux - bass). He also met Maxime Fougeres, one of the best guitarists of the generation IACP, the school of the Belmondo brothers. With him, he formed a duet where he developed his compositions and an original way of interpreting the standards.

In 2007, he has been the flute in the album “Southern Avenue” of the sextet directed by Fabrizio Cecca in Paris, published by Chrystal Records. In this album (in which Nicola Stilo is the guest in one track) Andrea Romani meets among the others the French trumpet player Julien Alour and the Italian pianist Giovanni Ceccarelli, with whom he is developing a new project.

In the last 2 years Andrea Romani has performed many concerts, mostly in France with the Italian guitar player Federico Casagrande in quartet, with the young drummer Gautier Garrigue and the Argentinian bass player Gael Petrina; he accounted also various performances in some Parisian jazz clubs like the Sunside with the Samy Thiebault tentet “Upanishad Experience”. The saxophone player Samy Thiebault called Andrea Romani in 2010 to perform in his final Prix at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Music in Paris.

Andrea Romani has played jazz music also with Stephane and Lionel Belmondo, Nico Morelli, Nicolas Moreaux, Karl Yannouska, Sofie Alour, Marco Vaggi, Mauro Gargano, Gaetano Partipilo.

Andrea Romani, with an ideal expansion of the “Southern Avenue”, has recently traveled several times to Athens to perform concerts as a guest fourth element of Gregoris Danis trio (P. Varthakouris, N. Sidirokastridis) and jammed more than one time with Harris Lambrakis Quartet. In the last few years he is approaching the music of the East by learning the Ney mostly attending several workshops in Houdetsi, Crete, in the musical Labirinth of Ross Daly, in particular with the Turkish master Omer Erdogular.