BANDS
BANDS
PERICOPES
(IT-USA)
Emi Vernizzi – sax, electronics
Alex Sgobbio – piano, Fender Rhodes, electronics
feat. Nick Wight / Ruben Bellavia– drums
Pericopes is an acclaimed jazz duo project that began in Italy in 2007. One would best describe their style as ‘Crossover 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), Parma Jazz Frontiere (Parma, Italy), Jazz Pas Grave and Unesco International Jazz Day (Paris, France), BurgJazz (Münster, Germany) where they have presented their acclaimed double-debut CD “The Double Side“ followed by other two released including the DVD “Frames”. The project began collaborating with New York based drummer Nick Wight. With a third voice, Pericopes+1 performed for a U.S. tour and recorded a new album These Human Beings in NYC. The saxophone, piano and drums power-trio “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. Pericopes+1 successfully made dozen of tours (China, USA, UK, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Switzerland, Belgium, Czech Republic, Nederland) including Gateshead Int’l Jazz Festival (UK), Sunside Jazz Club (FR), Unterfahrt (DE) to name a few and released three studio albums. In 2021 Pericopes has been mentioned in the Italian jazz history book, “La Storia del Jazz” as one of the most important/unique new-generation productions of the last few years.
“These guys have a history to be sure”
Dave Liebman
“Three excellent musicians”
Enrico Rava
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Winners of Umbria Jazz Contest 2013
TopJazz 2013: Best Italian Jazz Group Top List
TopJazz 2012: Best New Italian Jazz Talents Top List
Winners of Padova Carrarese Prize 2012
✭✭✭DownBeat, AllAboutJazz, JazzInside,
Jazziz, JazzTime, Herrald Scotland, JazzViews,…
BANDS
PERICOPES
(IT-USA)
Emi Vernizzi – sax, electronics
Alex Sgobbio – piano, Fender Rhodes, electronics
feat. Nick Wight / Ruben Bellavia– drums
Pericopes is an acclaimed jazz duo project that began in Italy in 2007. One would best describe their style as ‘Crossover 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), Parma Jazz Frontiere (Parma, Italy), Jazz Pas Grave and Unesco International Jazz Day (Paris, France), BurgJazz (Münster, Germany) where they have presented their acclaimed double-debut CD “The Double Side“ followed by other two released including the DVD “Frames”.
The project began collaborating with New York based drummer Nick Wight. With a third voice, Pericopes+1 performed for a U.S. tour and recorded a new album These Human Beings in NYC. The saxophone, piano and drums power-trio “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. Pericopes+1 successfully made dozen of tours (China, USA, UK, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Switzerland, Belgium, Czech Republic, Nederland) including Gateshead Int’l Jazz Festival (UK), Sunside Jazz Club (FR), Unterfahrt (DE) to name a few and released three studio albums. In 2021 Pericopes has been mentioned in the Italian jazz history book, “La Storia del Jazz” as one of the most important/unique new-generation productions of the last few years.
“These guys have a history to be sure”
Dave Liebman
“Three excellent musicians”
Enrico Rava
Adwords
Winners of Umbria Jazz Contest 2013
TopJazz 2013: Best Italian Jazz Group Top List
TopJazz 2012: Best New Italian Jazz Talents Top List
Winners of Padova Carrarese Prize 2012
✭✭✭DownBeat, AllAboutJazz, JazzInside,
Jazziz, JazzTime, Herrald Scotland, JazzViews,…
IZZY & THE CATASTROPHICS (USA)
Izzy Zaidman – lead guitar/vocals
Emi Vernizzi – sax
Chapman Sowash – trombone
Seth Kessel – bass
Gasper Bertoncelj – drums
Stitching together rock n’ roll, swing, surf, honky-tonk, and bebop, Izzy and the Catastrophics are a profoundly exciting and challenging group. Rooted firmly in traditional American roots music with the chops to nail it and the grit to deliver it, Izzy and his boys have toured constantly since 2008, playing over 250 shows per year in America and Europe. They have shared the stage with everyone from Snoop Dogg and Reverend Horton Heat in Orlando to the unmentionable punk bands of Anaheim. Izzy Zaidman is the veteran guitarist of Wayne “The Train” Hancock’s band. Fronting the group with swagger and zest, his masterful guitar playing is surpassed only by his witty songwriting and razor-sharp stage banter.
“If Izzy and the Catastrophics had been the band on the Titanic
they’d have blown that iceberg into cubes or drinks on the ledo deck.”
Brian Baker – Citybeat Cincinnati, OHIO
IZZY & THE CATASTROPHICS (USA)
Izzy Zaidman – lead guitar/vocals
Emi Vernizzi – sax
Chapman Sowash – trombone
Seth Kessel – bass
Gasper Bertoncelj – drums
Stitching together rock n’ roll, swing, surf, honky-tonk, and bebop, Izzy and the Catastrophics are a profoundly exciting and challenging group. Rooted firmly in traditional American roots music with the chops to nail it and the grit to deliver it, Izzy and his boys have toured constantly since 2008, playing over 250 shows per year in America and Europe. They have shared the stage with everyone from Snoop Dogg and Reverend Horton Heat in Orlando to the unmentionable punk bands of Anaheim. Izzy Zaidman is the veteran guitarist of Wayne “The Train” Hancock’s band. Fronting the group with swagger and zest, his masterful guitar playing is surpassed only by his witty songwriting and razor-sharp stage banter.
“If Izzy and the Catastrophics had been the band on the Titanic
they’d have blown that iceberg into cubes or drinks on the ledo deck.”
Brian Baker – Citybeat Cincinnati, OHIO
BLUE MOKA
feat. Fabrizio Bosso – trumpet
Emi Vernizzi – sax
Alberto Gurrisi – hammond organ
Michele Bianchi – guitar
Michele Morari – drums
A band “full of energy […] that could only happen today. It is the sound of Jazz – NOW! ” (Steven Cerra, Jazzprofiles). Blue Moka is a bassless quartet recognised as one of the new italian’s distinctive, creative and talented Hard-Bop / Soul-Funk project. Blues, R&B, electronics, become elements of a contemporaneity in which “communicative joy and a well-defined sound represent the distinctive features of Blue Moka” (Stefano Dentice – ItalianJazz). Blue Moka also features the legendary italian trumpet player Fabrizio Bosso. As one of the most in-demand soloist on the international music jazz scene, Fabrizio recorded more than fifty album including three release for the prestigious record label Blue Note as a bandleader and collaborated with the main worldwide performer such Enrico Pieranunzi, Charlie Haden, Carla Bley and the London Symphony Orchestra.
BLUE MOKA
feat. Fabrizio Bosso – trumpet
Emi Vernizzi – sax
Alberto Gurrisi – hammond organ
Michele Bianchi – guitar
Michele Morari – drums
A band “full of energy […] that could only happen today. It is the sound of Jazz – NOW! ” (Steven Cerra, Jazzprofiles). Blue Moka is a bassless quartet recognised as one of the new italian’s distinctive, creative and talented Hard-Bop / Soul-Funk project. Blues, R&B, electronics, become elements of a contemporaneity in which “communicative joy and a well-defined sound represent the distinctive features of Blue Moka” (Stefano Dentice – ItalianJazz). Blue Moka also features the legendary italian trumpet player Fabrizio Bosso. As one of the most in-demand soloist on the international music jazz scene, Fabrizio recorded more than fifty album including three release for the prestigious record label Blue Note as a bandleader and collaborated with the main worldwide performer such Enrico Pieranunzi, Charlie Haden, Carla Bley and the London Symphony Orchestra.
BUDOKAN
Budokan is the arena where the warriors of the rising sun challenged each other in the techniques of martial arts. Body, mind, inner purity. It is the mainstream project by Emiliano Vernizzi, a pianoless trio in which several duelists have competed since 2010: Daniele Tortora, Giacomo Marzi, Enzo Frassi, Massimo Caracca, Tony Arco, Matteo Rebulla, Vittorio Sigbaldi, Paolo Mozzoni. The challenge is to bring together interplay and contrasting situations which, due to the absence of an explicit harmonious reference and an equally stable formation, leaves much to the listener’s imagination. Power, sweetness, irony, speed fight each other on a ring purely characterized by rhythmic / melodic atmospheres of clear reference to the jazz of the 50s and 60s in a volcanic succession of swing, afro-bossa, funk moments, often alternated with unpredictability in a fun three-way dialogue.
