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Federico Ughi's Duets feat. Darius Jones at Local 269
Courtesy of Federico Ughi | Posted on January 6, 2011
When
Mon, February 7, 2011
10pm
At Door
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Musicians
Federico Ughi
drumsDarius Jones
saxophone, altoAbout
Federico Ughi's compositions infuse the New York avant garde sound with a sense of melody inspired by the Italian classical and folk traditions of his childhood in Rome. Ornette Coleman has been another major influence in Federico's compositional works.
Federico met Darius in 2003 and shortly after the two performed their first concert together in Richmond, Virginia.
"Ughi seems less concerned with the usual strategies of Free Jazz, although much of what he writes falls in that genre, than with the integration of improvisation and composition in a seamless unit that meshes melodic abstraction with sophisticated writing." Steven Loewy, All Music...