Dom Um Romão (3 August 1925 – 27 July 2005) was a Brazilian

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drummer and percussionist. Noted for his expressive stylings with the fusion band

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, Romão also recorded with artists such as

Cannonball Adderley Julian Edwin "Cannonball" Adderley (September 15, 1928August 8, 1975) was an American jazz Alto saxophone, alto saxophonist of the hard bop era of the 1950s and 1960s. Adderley is perhaps best remembered by the general public for the 1966 soul ...

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Antonio Carlos Jobim Antonio is a masculine given name of Etruscan origin deriving from the root name Antonius. It is a common name among Romance language–speaking populations as well as the Balkans and Lusophone Africa. It has been among the top 400 most popular ...

, Jorge Ben, Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66, and

Tony Bennett Anthony Dominick Benedetto (August 3, 1926 – July 21, 2023), known professionally as Tony Bennett, was an American jazz and traditional pop singer. He received many accolades, including 20 Grammy Awards, a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, ...

. He was the percussionist Tom Jobim brought to the studio for the album Jobim recorded with

Frank Sinatra Francis Albert Sinatra (; December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer and actor. Honorific nicknames in popular music, Nicknamed the "Chairman of the Board" and "Ol' Blue Eyes", he is regarded as one of the Time 100: The Most I ...

in 1967 for

Reprise Records Reprise Records is an American record label founded in 1960 by Frank Sinatra. It is owned by Warner Music Group, and operates through Warner Records, one of its flagship labels. Artists currently signed to Reprise Records include Green Day, En ...

, '' Francis Albert Sinatra & Antônio Carlos Jobim''. He died in Rio de Janeiro shortly after suffering a stroke.

Discography

As leader

* 1965 ''Dom Um'' ( Phillips) * 1972 ''Dom Um Romão'' (

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) * 1973 ''Spirit of the Times'' (Muse) * 1974 ''Braun-Blek-Blu'' (Happy Bird) * 1977 ''Hotmosphere'' ( Pablo) * 1978 ''Om'' (

ECM Records ECM (Edition of Contemporary Music) is an independent record label founded by Karl Egger, Manfred Eicher and Manfred Scheffner in Munich in 1969. While ECM is best known for jazz music, the label has released a variety of recordings, and ECM's a ...

)ECM LP 19003 * 1990 ''Samba de Rua'' ( Vogue Records) * 1993 ''Saudades'' (Waterlilly) * 1999 ''Rhythm Traveller'' (Natasha) * 2001 ''Lake of Perseverance'' ( Irma) * 2002 ''Nu Jazz meets Brazil'' (Cuadra)

As sideman

With

* '' Cannonball's Bossa Nova'' ( Riverside, 1962) With

Harry Belafonte Harry Belafonte ( ; born Harold George Bellanfanti Jr.; March 1, 1927 – April 25, 2023) was an American singer, actor, and civil rights activist who popularized calypso music with international audiences in the 1950s and 1960s. Belafonte ...

* '' Turn the World Around'' ( Columbia, 1977) With Jorge Ben * '' Samba Esquema Novo'' (

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, 1963) With

Blood, Sweat & Tears Blood, Sweat & Tears (also known as "BS&T") is an American jazz rock music group founded in New York City in 1967, noted for a combination of brass with rock instrumentation. BS&T has gone through numerous iterations with varying personnel and ...

*''

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'' (Columbia, 1974) With Luiz Bonfa and Maria Toledo * '' Braziliana'' (Philips, 1965) With

Ron Carter Ronald Levin Carter (born May 4, 1937) is an American jazz double bassist. His appearances on 2,221 recording sessions make him the most-recorded jazz bassist in history. He has won three Grammy Awards, and is also a Cello, cellist who has reco ...

* '' Yellow & Green'' ( CTI, 1976) With João Donato * ''A Bad Donato'' ( Blue Thumb, 1970) With Peter Giger and Family of Percussion * ''Mozambique Meets Europe'' (B&W music, 1992) With

Astrud Gilberto Astrud Gilberto (; born Astrud Evangelina Weinert; March 29, 1940 – June 5, 2023) was a Brazilian samba and bossa nova singer and songwriter. She gained international attention in the mid-1960s following her recording of the song " The Girl f ...

* '' Look to the Rainbow'' ( Verve, 1966) * '' Beach Samba'' (Verve, 1967) With Astrud Gilberto and

Stanley Turrentine Stanley William Turrentine (April 5, 1934 – September 12, 2000) was an American jazz tenor saxophone, tenor saxophonist and record producer. He began his career playing R&B for Earl Bostic and later soul jazz recording for the Blue Note Reco ...

* '' Gilberto with Turrentine'' (CTI, 1971) With

Vince Guaraldi Vincent Anthony Guaraldi (; birth name, né Dellaglio, July 17, 1928 – February 6, 1976) was an American jazz pianist best known for composing music for animated television adaptations of the ''Peanuts'' comic strip. His compositions for this s ...

* '' Alma-Ville'' ( Warner Bros.-Seven Arts, 1969) With

* '' The Wonderful World of Antonio Carlos Jobim'' (

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, 1965) * '' A Certain Mr. Jobim'' (Warner Bros., 1967) * ''

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'' ( A&M, 1967) With

Yusef Lateef Yusef Abdul Lateef (born William Emanuel Huddleston; October 9, 1920 – December 23, 2013) was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer, and prominent figure among the Ahmadiyya Community in the United States. Although Lateef's main i ...

* '' The Doctor is In... and Out'' (

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, 1976) With

Herbie Mann Herbert Jay Solomon (April 16, 1930 – July 1, 2003), known by his stage name Herbie Mann, was an American jazz Flute, flute player and important early practitioner of world music. Early in his career, he also played tenor saxophone and clarinet ...

* '' Do the Bossa Nova with Herbie Mann'' (Atlantic, 1962) * '' Latin Fever'' (Atlantic, 1964) * '' Brazil: Once Again'' (Atlantic, 1977) With Sergio Mendes * '' Sergio Mendes' Favorite Things'' (Atlantic, 1968) * '' Fool on the Hill'' (A&M, 1968) * '' Ye-Me-Lê'' (A&M, 1969) * '' Crystal Illusions'' (A&M, 1969) With

Helen Merrill Helen Merrill (born Jelena Ana Milcetic; July 21, 1929) is an American jazz vocalist. Her first album, the eponymous 1954 recording ''Helen Merrill (album), Helen Merrill'' (with Clifford Brown on EmArcy), was an immediate success and associat ...

* ''Casa Forte'' (Trio, 1980) With Robert Palmer * '' Heavy Nova'' (

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, 1988) With

Annette Peacock Annette Peacock (born 1941) is an American composer, musician, songwriter, producer, and arranger. She is a pioneer in electronic music who combined her voice with one of the first Moog synthesizers in the late 1960s. Biography Annette Peacock ...

* '' I'm the One'' (

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, 1972) With Esther Phillips *''Esther Phillips Sings'' (Atlantic, 1966) With

Dory Previn Dorothy Veronica "Dory" Previn (née Langan; October 22, 1925 – February 14, 2012) was an American lyricist, singer-songwriter and poet. During the late 1950s and 1960s, Previn was a lyricist on songs intended for motion pictures and, with h ...

*'' We're Children of Coincidence and Harpo Marx'' (Warner Bros., 1976) With Wanda Sá * ''Wanda Vagamente'' ( RGE, 1964) With

* '' Francis Albert Sinatra & Antônio Carlos Jobim'' (

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, 1967) With

* '' The Sugar Man'' (CTI, rec., 1971, rel. 1975) With

Collin Walcott Collin Walcott (April 24, 1945 – November 8, 1984) was an American musician who worked on jazz and world music. Early life Walcott was born in New York City, United States. He studied violin and tympani in his youth, and was a percussion stud ...

* ''

Grazing Dreams ''Grazing Dreams'' is the second album by American sitarist and composer Collin Walcott, recorded in February 1977 and released on ECM later that year. Walcott's quintet features trumpeter Don Cherry and rhythm section John Abercrombie, Palle ...

'' (ECM, 1977) With Walter Wanderley * ''

Batucada Batucada () is a substyle of samba and refers to a percussive style, usually performed by an Musical ensemble, ensemble, known as a bateria. Batucada music is characterized by its syncopated style and fast pace with a marked rhythm. Originally fro ...

'' (Verve, 1967) * ''Kee-Ka-Roo'' (Verve, 1967) With

* ''

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'' (Columbia, 1972) * '' Live in Tokyo'' (Columbia, 1972) * '' Sweetnighter'' (Columbia, 1973) * '' Mysterious Traveller'' (Columbia, 1974)

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