Ferdinando Romano

Ferdinando Romano is a doublebass player, composer and improviser. In the Top Jazz 2023, the critics' poll held by the magazine Musica Jazz, he won important awards, placing second in the Italian Musician of the Year category. His album Invisible Painters ranked among the Italian Albums of the Year and among the Italian Ensembles of the Year. With his debut album Totem feat. Ralph Alessi, Romano had won numerous awards such as first place as “Best Italian Rising Star 2020” in Top Jazz, the SIAE 2021 Award and was one of the winners of the Nuova Generazione Jazz program. He has received wide international acclaim from leading magazines and journals. He has been described as “a poetic bassist, an inspired composer and an intriguing arranger” (T. Conrad, Stereophile), “A brilliant record, an expression of clear talent” (Musica Jazz), “... a jazz of great clarity, strongly expressive, never resting on virtuosic laurels but attentive to the “tale” that can arise even from an exquisitely instrumental composition“ (La Repubblica), ‘an album of the highest quality that benefits from that happy meeting point between the ’complex listening and the more accessible” (Uk Vibe)