American drummer Nick Wight became the “+ 1” in 2012 and recorded on the album These Human Beings – released in 2015 under the Alfa Music Label, with the liner notes by Dave Liebman and Enrico Rava. The album offers a creative balance between improvisation and nu-jazz with post-prog and avant-garde influences.

These Human Beings earned over two-dozen reviews, including USA’s Downbeat, All About Jazz, Jazziz, Jazztimes and Italy’s Musica Jazz. Additional achievements include a featured interview and performance for national RAI Radio3 in Milan, and an appearance on Austrian National Television.

With the help of widespread media attention Pericopes+1 successfully made two American and two European tours since 2014, performing more than 70 shows (USA, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Switzerland, Belgium, Czech Republic). They made appearances at the Gateshead Int’l Jazz Festival, Sound Scotland Festival and The Jazz Bar (UK), Sunside Jazz Club and Grenoble Jazz Club (FR), Jazz & Peace of Wine Festival (IT), Burg Jazz (DE), Jazz on 5 (CZ), Graz Jazz Nacht (AU) and many more.

Pericopes has toured Europe again in October 2016 in preparation for a new album recording.

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“Great record. Wonderful music with a very diverse repertoire, played flawlessly. You can hear the spirit and mutual respect the three musicians have for each other and the music. These guys have a history to be sure.”— DAVE LIEBMAN

“There is the search but also heart. There is rage and love. There is the howl but also the song. These three excellent musicians tell us about their being human. Thank you!” — ENRICO RAVA

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These Human Beings is a noteworthy example of Italian and American jazz musicians coming together, and Vernizzi, Sgobbio and Wight have no problem finding common ground when it comes to both the post-bop elements and the avant-garde elements. Both the inside and the outside work to their creative advantage on These Human Beings.
ALEX HENDERSON / JAZZ INSIDE MAGAZINE – USA

The bass-less trio of Pericopes+1 brings a 21st-century influence to their album These Human Beings. It’s modern jazz that’s heavy on intelligent melody and spirited improvisation. All the songs exhibit power and intention. Pericopes+1 also demonstrates a mastery of dynamics, creating steady climaxes that climb logically forward. These Human Beings does make a statement, and that’s a good indication for this young group.
DAVID KUNIAN / DOWNBEAT – USA

The group’s most impressive feat is that its ambitions don’t get in the way of the music’s accessibility. They play with intelligence and heart throughout, yet for all the complexity, the group is capable of communicating emotional depth through relatively structures.
JOHN FREDERICK MOORE / JAZZIZ – USA

The big strength of this album is its rare ability to tell us a story which goes further than the notes and the rhythms, transforming this journey in a unique and shared experience. An ambitious and successful project.
PAOLO ODELLO / IL FATTO QUOTIDIANO – IT

Pericopes duo experiments a new dimension with the addition of Mr. Wight. The trio works perfectly, assimilating and re-elaborating lots of elements from various sources.
ENZO BODDI / MUSICA JAZZ – IT

Pericopes+1 is a modern masterwork.
PARLIAMO DI JAZZ – IT

The attention to the sound is absolute. Every listening reveals new fine shapes and details that the sobriety of Pericopes’s poetics don’t show immediately. With the intervention of a valuable drummer, which fits dialectically and not as a simple support, the duo’s music acquires a new dimension, which enriches its already considerable strengths.
VINCENZO FUGALDI / JAZZITALIA – IT

Pericopes + 1 fits their era perfectly: These Human Beings is a rich cocktail of unpredictable moments, where musicality and strength merge together with a colorful homogeneity.
BOB HATTEAU / JAZZ À BÂBORD – FR

Pericopes+1 search and find various ways of interplay. They create a music with plenty of personality and energy.
THIERRY GIARD / CULTUREJAZZ – FR

These three artists engage in a dialogue with plenty of sonorous effervescence and evanescence. They ask and answer each other; then they go together or they take opposite ways; sometimes they agree, sometimes they disagree, competing around harmonic and rhythmical stuffs.

They play together a cerebral music by keeping their whole spontaneous sensibility intact.
NICHOLAS HILLALI / LES CHRONIQUES DE HIKO – FR