Barry Romberg

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Barry Romberg (* 24. July 1959 ) is a Canadian jazz - drummer , bandleader and composer . He is one of Canada's most successful jazz drum stylists.

Live and act

Romberg began playing drums in 1970. He studied drums with Stan Perry and Pete Magadini at the York University Conservatory .

In 1990 he won the Alcan Jazz competition for the central region with his band The Barry Romberg Group . In 1991 he received a Juno Award (Canada's Music Prize) from the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences . Six nominations followed in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2008. Barry Romberg lives in Toronto . Romberg's work includes sixty recordings - on ten of these he was band leader or co-leader.

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as a leader

  • Existential Detective , Random Access Large Ensemble (RALE)
  • Big Giant Head , Random Access Part 6, Barry Romberg
  • Accidental Beef , Random Access - Live on Tour - Part 5, Barry Romberg
  • No Soap Radio , Random Access Part 4, Barry Romberg
  • Random Access Part 3 , Barry Romberg
  • That Magic Thread , MRC Trio
  • What Is This Thing? , Inside Out
  • Random Access Part 2 , Barry Romberg
  • Tribal Dance , MRC Trio
  • Random Access Part 1 , Barry Romberg
  • Village , Three Sisters
  • Greatest Hits , Barry Romberg Group
  • 2nd Floor Please , Barry Romberg Group

as a sideman

  • Michael Occhpinti's Sicilian Jazz Project
  • Adrean Farrugia , V1.0
  • Creation Dream , Chasing After Light (Juno nomination)
  • City Of Neighborhoods , NOJO (Juno nomination)
  • When She Dreams , Nancy Walker
  • In Between , Geoff Young
  • Father & Sons , Al Henderson
  • A Decade Of Favorites , Bob Brough
  • Distillery Jazz Fest , w / Creation Dream
  • Highwire , NOJO (Juno nomination)
  • Levitation , Nancy Walker
  • Of Battles Mysteries Unknown , Chris Tarry (Juno nomination)
  • Group of Seven , Tony Quarrington
  • Transparency , Lenny Solomon
  • Here And Now , Reg Schwagger, CBC
  • Sound Of Toronto , CJRT, Nancy Walker
  • Outsource , Glen Hall
  • Creation Dream 'Songs Of Bruce Cockburn' (Juno nomination)
  • Best Of 1990 , Vector
  • Luminosity , Nancy Walker
  • Jazz Guy , Victor Bateman
  • Marchino Harmonicas , Bill Grove
  • The sidemen
  • Art Of Melody , Roy Styffe
  • CBC Jazz In Canada 1973-1989
  • Urban Landscape , Al Henderson
  • Surrealist Blues , Michael Ochippinti
  • Invitation , Nancy Walker
  • Greatest Hits , Barry Romberg Group
  • Coast to Coast , Stephan Bauer
  • The Gershwin Session , Lenny Solomon
  • Devils Brew , Moe Koffman
  • Shelley Berger , Shelly Berger
  • Dinasour Dig , Al Henderson
  • Subway Dream , Roy Styffe
  • Jazz Notes CBC with Victor Bateman
  • Just for you , Dave Young
  • In Transition , Brian Dickenson (Juno Winner)
  • Unity Records Compilation , BR Group
  • October The 13th , Brian Dickenson
  • Ruin , John Macleod
  • Unity Records Compilation , Nancy Walker
  • Shurum Burum Jazz Circus, David Buchbinder (Juno nomination)
  • Sherri Marshall latest

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personal data
SURNAME Romberg, Barry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian jazz drummer and band leader
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1959