Emi Vernizzi Sax, electronics
Claud Vignali Piano, Fender Rhodes, electronics
Ruben Bellavia Drums
“FASCINATING COMPOSITIONS. REGULAR IRREGULARITY.”
JAZZ’N’MORE, CH
“MODERN JAZZ THAT’S HEAVY ON INTELLIGENT MELODY AND SPIRITED IMPROVISATION.”
DOWNBEAT, USA
“A BALANCED COLLECTION OF CHAMBER MUSIC, BETWEEN INTROSPECTION AND AVANT-GARDE.”
JAZZ THING, DE
“LEGACY IS AN ORIGINAL, STYLISTICALLY INTERESTING CONTRIBUTION TO EUROPEAN JAZZ”
CONCERTO, AT
“THE TRIO WORKS PERFECTLY”
MUSICA JAZZ, IT
Pericopes+1 is an acclaimed Italian jazz project whose style would best be described as “Crossover Jazz”, with roots in European tradition, African-American music and improvisation, and an affinity for melody and compositional structure, mixed with other post-rock/prog/avantgarde/electronic influences.
The project was born as a sax-piano duo (Emi Vernizzi and Alex Sgobbio) in 2007 and has produced 4 albums, won 1st prize in both the Italian competitions of Umbria Jazz and Padova Carrarese, nominated as a toplist band in 2013 by Musica Jazz magazine, and then extended the collaboration with New York drummer Nick Wight evolving into Pericopes+1 in 2014.
The trio version “demonstrate power and intention” (Downbeat – USA) plus grit and creativity that has earned recognition from both industry pros and fans. This “cleverly unorthodox trio” (Musica Jazz – Italy) has been described as “an original, stylistically interesting” (Concerto – Austria) cross-genre band that “belongs to a new generation” (Jazz ‘N’ More – Switzerland) of European jazz.
From 2020 onwards the collaborations extend to drummer Ruben Bellavia and later to pianist Claudio Vignali forming the current line-up with co-founder saxophonist Emi Vernizzi.
Over the years, P+1 has released 3 more albums and played hundreds of concerts on dozens of tours (China, USA, UK, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Switzerland, Belgium, Czech Republic, Nederland) including stages as the Gateshead Int’l Jazz Festival (UK), JIM Fest (Beijing), Sunside Jazz Club (FR), Unterfahrt (DE), ShapeShifter Lab (NY) to name a few. In 2021 Pericopes project was mentioned in the Italian jazz history book, “La Storia del Jazz” as one of the most important/unique new-generation productions of the last years.
In 2023 Pericopes+1 has been nominated by Musica Jazz magazine in the italian TopJazz chart as one of the “best band of the year”.
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