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Pericopes

Pericopes is a contemporary jazz project initiated in 2007 by pianist Alessandro Sgobbio and saxophonist Emiliano Vernizzi. One would best describe their style as ‘New Jazz’, with roots in the European tradition, Afro-American music, and improvisation, and an affinity for melody and compositional structure. Pericopes has already participated in many important jazz festivals in Europe – the Umbria Jazz Festival (Perugia, Italy), Jazz & Wine of Peace (Cormons, Italy), Parma Jazz Frontiere (Parma, Italy), Jazz Pas Grave and Unesco International Jazz Day (Paris, France), BurgJazz (Münster, Germany), presenting their acclaimed double-debut CD The Double Side

Up

Label: Losen Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Wonderland; Ucronia; Disco Gagarin; The Earth´s Shape; Danza di Kuwa; Martyrlied; Gorod Malinov; La Rentrée; Sultans of Swing.

Pericopes+1: Up

by Geno Thackara
August 6, 2020

For a recording titled Up, this one sure spends a lot of time going sideways. Cue the opening track and you're carried away on waves of briskly-flowing piano and saxophone as if there isn't a thing in the world to worry about. The feel becomes a bit more angular with the next, the drums leaning somewhat ...

What What

By Pericopes

Label: Unit Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: La Danse Des Holothuries; Tzukiji; Cocteau; Danza Di Kuwa; What What; Martyrlied; The Windmills Trail; Orat 29; The Windmills Trail (reprise).

Pericopes: Legacy

by Neri Pollastri
April 11, 2018

Prosegue con successo il percorso di Pericopes+1, qui al secondo album dopo l'allargamento a trio del duo del pianista Alessandro Sgobbio e del tenorsassofonista Emiliano Vernizzi, trio che già aveva realizzato nel 2015 l'eccellente These Human Beings. Stavolta i tre approdano all'etichetta Auand per pubblicare un disco registrato presso l'Artesuono di Stefano Amerio, frutto ...

Pericopes: What What

by Mark Corroto
March 2, 2018

The sixth release from the duo Pericopes asks the listener to consider the scientific term rarefaction, or the reduction of an item's density. Like the rarefied air in the upper atmosphere or the spread of ocean waves as they reach the shore, their music is the converse of compression. This reduction is also evident in What ...

Legacy

By Pericopes

Label: Auand Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: (Intro); Zardis; Markveien; November Tears; Legacy; Grossetto; Reverences; Red Sand Town; Wie Die Blumen; Major’s 10.

Pericopes e il Questionario di Proust

by Paolo Peviani
March 16, 2016

All About Jazz: Il tratto principale della nostra musica. Pericopes: Storie, suoni e frammenti che raccogliamo dal nostro vissuto personale quotidiano. AAJ: La qualità che desidero nei musicisti che suonano con noi. Emiliano Vernizzi: La capacità di sorprendere. Alessandro Sgobbio: Propensione a esporsi al rischio.

These Human Beings

By Pericopes

Label: Alfamusic
Released: 2015
Track listing: Through Piat; Baldwin; Jersey Zombies; Lo Viatge; First Minute of Inception (To Roberto Bonati); Adunata; Path Man; Insunity; Melan, Pt.1; Changing World.

Pericopes +1 alla Buca di San Vincenzo di Milano

by Paolo Peviani
November 11, 2015

Buca di San Vincenzo Milano 09.11.2015 Si muove tra New York, Parigi e Parma, l'atipico trio Pericopes+1, al secolo Emiliano Vernizzi al sax tenore, Alessandro Sgobbio al piano, Nick Wight alla batteria. Non una novità in senso stretto: già nel 2013 il duo Vernizzi-Sgobbio aveva vinto l'Umbria Jazz Contest. ...