Pericopes (IT)
"These Human Beings" summer tour
Pericopes + 1 is a unique sax/piano/drums "trans-atlantic" project based between NewYork/Italy/Oslo (Emi Vernizzi – sax, Nick Wight – drums, and pianist Alex Sgobbio) with a customized sounds, mixes contemporary NY influences and European styles, with post prog-rock, avantgarde.
The native nucleus borned on 2007, four album released, is a multi-prize winner including the Umbria Jazz Festival competition 2013, Trio album debut has been honored by Dave Liebman and Enrico Rava notes, and a successful through international jazz press (Downbeat, AAJ, Musica Jazz, Jazziz), festival (Umbria Jazz, Gateshead, Jazz Pas Grave, BurgJazz) touring seventy shows all over europe and UK, two US tour that included concerts across Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York City (including Brooklyn’s innovative ShapeShifter Lab) where NYC Jazz Record wrote, "This young trio discovered various moods of deep introspection.". A new album will come out on september.
Emi Vernizzi (sax)
Alex Sgobbio (piano)
Nick Wight (drums)