Canadian jazz drummer Barry Romberg studied music at York University in Toronto and later took lessons from Stan Perry and Pete Magadini. He landed his first major gig touring with Dave Young in 1983, and made his first recording two years later behind Reg Schwager. He went on to form the Barry Romberg Group, which initially featured guitarist Geoff Young and bassist Jim Vivian, plus, briefly, guitarist Mark McCarron. This lineup released the album 2nd Floor Please in 1989 on Unity Records, and toured Canada with several labelmates. Several more sessions followed over the next few years, with saxophonist Perry White signing on in the early '90s. Meanwhile, Romberg played on Brian Dickinson's Juno Award-winning In Transition in 1992, and became an in-demand freelance sideman on the Canadian jazz scene. Over the next few years, he played and recorded with Al Henderson, Moe Koffman, Stefan Bauer, and Nancy Walker, among others; by this time, he'd also begun supporting big international names like Kenny Wheeler, Joe Henderson, Gil Evans, Sam Rivers, Hank Jones, Don Byron, and Don Pullen, to name a few. From 1999-2001, he played regularly with Michael Occhipinti, appearing on his group Creation Dream's Juno-nominated Songs of Bruce Cockburn album. Having seen his early-'90s sessions issued by Unity as Greatest Hits, he also released another album under his own name, Random Access, and began playing with the MRC Trio, which also featured violinist Hugh Marsh and cellist Rufus Cappadocia. Their debut, Tribal Dance, appeared in 2002, and Romberg branched out into another project, Three Sisters, which included longtime cohort Geoff Young, co-guitarist Daryl Jankhe, and bassist Chris Tarry, and debuted with Village. ~ Steve Huey, All Music Guide