Italian Drummer Aldo Romano in 3 from the late 70s [Divieto di Santificazione, Il Piacere, Night Diary]

From discogs:

Italian jazz drummer based in France, born on January, 16th, 1941 in Belluno, Italy.

Note he played with Christian Escoude, Enrico Rava, Henri Texier, plus a bunch of jazz bands of course, beside the great and brilliant Mariano, Philip Catherine, Porkpie, the Kuhn bros, so in short a lot or most of the well known brilliant Euro jazz / fusion artists, perhaps all of them in fact, and I believe everyone mentioned in this sentence has appeared here on this blog in years past for some album or another, as (incompletely) indicated. 

From 1979's Pleasure, a track called Pioggia sul Pineto can be heard here:

 

The phenomenal electric guitar playing is by the well known Frenchman, Claude Barthelemy.  All of his output under his own moniker is complex and worth hearing. I thought I posted the whole lot but maybe I didn't.

The next album, 1980's Night Diary wherein he has Van 't Hof on keys and Didier Lockwood on violin, as well as himself playing piano and guitars, has the most consistently enjoyable or accessible music while at the same time being interesting enough for us, and completely absent the 80s influence (digital drums, jumpy beats, shrill synths, etc.)-- consider Fina with its kind and appealing tenderness which owes a lot of course to the wonderful Didier's soft touch:

And the title track has an appealing soundtracky feel to it:

So in sum total, a very enjoyable mix of music and none-- absolutely none of the 80s influence and smooth fuzak one would have expected.

But I stopped listening to his output after 1980, perhaps I shouldn't have.

Someone surely knows more than me.