Romero Lubambo is a Brazilian jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

 guitar player.

Romero Lubambo started learning classic piano at a very early age. At 13, he started learning the classic guitar, studying at the Villa-Lobos Music School.
At the same time he studied engineering at PUC University in Rio de Janeiro.
Since 1985, he has lived in the USA and played and recorded with names as Astrud Gilberto

Astrud Gilberto

Astrud Gilberto is a Brazilian samba and bossa nova singer. She is well known for the Grammy Award-winning song "The Girl from Ipanema".-Biography:...

, Dianne Reeves

Dianne Reeves

Dianne Reeves is an American jazz singer. She currently lives in Denver, Colorado.-Early life:Reeves was born in Detroit, Michigan to a very musical family. Her father, who died when she was two years old, was also a singer. Her mother, Vada Swanson, played trumpet. A cousin, George Duke, is a...

, Michael Brecker

Michael Brecker

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, Al Jarreau

Al Jarreau

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, Kathleen Battle

Kathleen Battle

Kathleen Battle , is an African-American operatic soprano known for her agile and light voice and her silvery, pure tone. Battle initially became known for her work within the concert repertoire through performances with major orchestras during the early and mid 1970s. She made her opera debut in...

, Herbie Mann

Herbie Mann

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, Ivan Lins

Ivan Lins

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, Flora Purim

Flora Purim

Flora Purim is a Brazilian jazz singer known primarily for her work in the jazz fusion style. She became prominent for her part in Chick Corea's landmark album Return to Forever...

 e Airto, Paquito D’Rivera, Harry Belafonte

Harry Belafonte

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, Grover Washington, Jr.

Grover Washington, Jr.

Grover Washington, Jr. was an American jazz-funk / soul-jazz saxophonist. Along with George Benson, John Klemmer, David Sanborn, Bob James, Chuck Mangione, Herb Alpert, and Spyro Gyra, he is considered by many to be one of the founders of the smooth jazz genre.He wrote some of his material and...

, Luciana Souza

Luciana Souza

Luciana Souza is a Brazilian jazz singer and composer who has crossed over into classical music.Daughter of poet Tereza Souza and singer-composer-guitarist Walter Santos, she grew up in São Paulo. She is a graduate of the Berklee College of Music in Boston from which she received a Bachelor's...

, Sergio Assad

Sergio Assad

Sérgio Assad is a Brazilian guitarist, composer, and arranger who often performs with his brother in the guitar duo Sérgio and Odair Assad, commonly referred to as Assad Brothers or Duo Assad.-Biography:...

, Dave Douglas

Dave Douglas (trumpeter)

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 and Odair Assad, Leny Andrade

Leny Andrade

Leny de Andrade Lima, better known as Leny Andrade, was born in Rio de Janeiro, on January 25, 1943, and is a Brazilian singer and musician. Both Andrade's first and last names are sometimes misspelled in English as "Lenny", "Leni", and "Adrade". She has had several hits on the Brazilian charts...

 e Cesar Camargo Mariano

Cesar Camargo Mariano

Cesar Camargo Mariano is a Brazilian pianist, arranger, composer and music producer. He is one of the most renowned instrumental artists to come out of his home country.-Biography:...

. Recently he has been playing with Trio da Paz

Trio da Paz

Trio da Paz are a Brazilian jazz group, one of the most visible in the world.Formed in 1986, they consist of Romero Lubambo on guitar, Nilson Matta on bass and Duduka da Fonseca on drums and percussion....

. One of his most well-known and well-loved contributions is as the guitar/percussion near-orchestra he provides to Yo-yo Ma and Paquito D'Rivera on "Doce de Coco" on Ma's Apassionata CD; while the cello and clarinet answer each other seamlessly, the steady rhythm they seek, the bass, and the grace notes are all provided by Lubambo's fingering.

As leader

• Autonomia (1990) Visom
• Face to Face, with Weber Drummond (1993) GSP
• Shades of Rio, with Raphael Rabello (1993) CKY
• Two (1994) GSP
• Paraty (1997) Perfil Musical
• Lubambo (1999) Avant
• Duo, with César Camargo Mariano (2002) Trama
• Brazilian Routes (2002) Rob Digital
• Rio de Janeiro Underground (2003) Victor
• Romero Lubambo & Lica Cecato (2003) Sony
• Coisa Fina, with Leny Andrade (2003) Perfil Musical
• Softly (2006) MAXJAZZ

As sideman

With Dizzy Gillespie

Dizzy Gillespie

John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie was an American jazz trumpet player, bandleader, singer, and composer dubbed "the sound of surprise".Together with Charlie Parker, he was a major figure in the development of bebop and modern jazz...

• Rhythmstick
  Rhythmstick
  Rhythmstick is a 1990 album and video by Dizzy Gillespie and CTI Records All-Stars.-Tracklisting:#"Barbados" #"Friday Night at the Cadillac Club" #"Nana" #"Caribe"...
  
  (1990)

With Herbie Mann

Herbie Mann

Herbert Jay Solomon , better known as Herbie Mann, was a Jewish American jazz flutist and important early practitioner of world music...

• Jasil Brazz
  Jasil Brazz
  Jasil Brazz is a 1987 album by jazz flautist Herbie Mann. It features two of the members of Trio da Paz as well and Brazilian trumpeter Claudio Roditi and Mark Soskin on synthesizers.-Reception:Allmusic called it "one of Mann's best albums of that decade"....
  
  (1987)

External links

• Romero Lubambo's official web site