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The LRQ features exceptional musicians such as Neal Starkey, Rex Gregory, Jesse Boyd, Clarence Johnson, Dan Sumner and Kevin Hyde in America. In Europe, Lou works with young and talented musicians such as Evgeny Ring from Russia, Richard Brüggemann, Arne Donadell, Daniel Werbach and Fabian Werner from Germany.
The LRQ has performed all over the world in such places as Snug Harbor in New Orleans, Louisiana State University of Monroe, The Jazz Studio in Nuremberg, as well as doing live movie syncing for Edison’s Elekrisches Theater at Werkstatt für Kunstprojekte in Leipzig, Germany.
Biography
The Louis Romanos Quartet is a jazz band founded in New Orleans by Drummer and Composer Louis Romanos. The music that Mr. Romanos composes reinterprets both traditional and modern jazz, interweaving latin, bebop, and New Orleans street beat rhythms with profound melodies to create a playful, rhythmically driven, compelling sound. Louis Romanos has studied, recorded and performed with many great musicians including Chuck Leavell, John Mayer, Keith Richards, Jazz legend Earl Turbinton, Victor Atkins, Dave Easley, Charlie Miller, Al Hirt, Joel Frahm, John Hebert, Charles Neville, Jason Stuart, Brian Seeger, Stanton Moore, Jonathan Byrd. He currently performs and records with Chuck Leavell, Dromedary Quartet and LRQ.
Louis Romanos began his career performing with the award winning Hall High school Pops and Jazz band in West Hartford, Connecticut. Many exceptional musicians were in that band including Brad Mehldau and Joel Frahm. After graduating from Hall, Louis turned down a scholarship to study music at Berkley in Boston and chose to go down to Loyola New Orleans to study music and Philosophy. He spent much of his time and energy performing around New Orleans as well as writing, recording and producing for his live electronica band, Permagrin. Some compositions didn't fit into the electric genre and were better expressed through Jazz. Thus the LRQ was formed. Around 2001, Louis put together his own acoustic jazz band, The Louis Romanos Quartet (LRQ) with Dave Easley from Brian Blade’s Fellowship band, and Dave Anderson, the principal bass chair in the Louisiana philharmonic orchestra. The LRQ is an integration of his many influences and pays tribute to Lou's musical heroes.
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