Jessica Lurie
Jessica Lurie is an American composer, performance artist and woodwind player, originally hailing from Seattle and now living in Brooklyn, New York. Lurie first gained notice as a member of The Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet, an all-female horn ensemble who released its first album in 1993. In 1995, she also had a first release with the group Living Daylights, which performs jazz-jamband music.
Jessica Lurie
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- Name
- Jessica Lurie
- Occupation
- * Composer
- Born
- 1967 · Cambridge.
- Nationality
- United States
- Fields
- jazz
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Jessica Lurie is an American composer, performance artist and woodwind player, originally hailing from Seattle and now living in Brooklyn, New York. Lurie first gained notice as a member of The Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet, an all-female horn ensemble who released its first album in 1993. In 1995, she also had a first release with the group Living Daylights, which performs jazz-jamband music.
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Jessica Lurie (born 1967) is a composer and saxophonist, of American nationality. The composer was born in Cambridge. Jessica Lurie is a member of The Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet. The work spans jazz.
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She has also performed as the leader of the Jessica Lurie Ensemble since 2002. She composed music for No Sleep Won't Kill You (2010) by Croatian filmmaker Marko Mestrovic, co-scored with composer Abraham Gomez-Delgado, and Fibonacci Bread (2012), a short animation by Croatian artist Danijel Zezelj.
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• Background — person • Name — Jessica Lurie • Occupation — * Composer • performance artist • Instrument — Woodwind
Solo albums
Solo albums
• La Luce Azzurra (with Metropolizani) (1998) • Motorbison Serenade (2000, Zipa Music) • School of One (with Will Dowd) (2002) • Tiger, Tiger (2005) • This is what its like to be (with Andrew Drury Duo) (2005, Zipa Music) • Licorice and Smoke (2006, Zipa Music) • Long Haul (2017, Zipa Music)
With Jessica Lurie Ensemble
With Jessica Lurie Ensemble
•!Zipa Buka! (2003, Zipa Music) • Shop of Wild Dreams (2009, Zipa Music) • Megaphone Heart (2012, Zipa Music) • Carambolage (2021)
With The Tiptons Sax Quartet
With The Tiptons Sax Quartet
• Saxhouse (1993, Knitting Factory, rereleased by Horn Hut in 1994) • Make It Funky God (1994, Horn Hut) • Box (1996, New World Records) • Pollo d'Oro (with Ne Zhdali) (1997, No Man's Land) • Sunshine Bundtcake (2000, New World Records) • Short Cuts (2003, Spoot & Zipa) • Tsunami (2004, No Man's Land/Spoot & Zipa) • Surrounded by Horns (2004, Stockfisch) • Drive (2005, Spoot & Zipa) • Laws Of Motion (2008, Spoot & Zipa) • Strange Flower (2010, Spoot & Zipa) • Tiny Lower Case (2014, Spoot & Zipa) • Wabi Sabi (2021, Sowiesound)
With Living Daylights
With Living Daylights
• Falling Down Laughing (1995, Liquid City) • 500 Pound Cat (1998, Liquid City) • Electric Rosary (2000, Liquid City) • Night of the Living Daylights (2003)
With Eyvind Kang
With Eyvind Kang
• 7 NADEs (Tzadik, 1996) • Theater of Mineral NADEs (Tzadik, 1998) • The Story of Iceland (Tzadik, 2000)
With Jon Madof's Zion80
With Jon Madof's Zion80
• Zion80 (Tzadik, 2013) • Adramelech: Book of Angels Volume 22 (Tzadik, 2014)
With La Buya
With La Buya
• La Buya (2021)
With Breslov Bar Band
With Breslov Bar Band
• Holy Chutzpah (2022)
Other appearances
Other appearances
• The Posies, Amazing Disgrace (1996, DGC) (tenor saxophone on "Please Return It") • Giuseppi Logan,...And They Were Cool (2013, Improvising Beings) (saxophone and flute) • Circus Amok Band, Citizen*ship (2014) (saxophone, flute, vocals) • Darshan, Raza (2017, Chant) (alto and baritone saxophone)
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- 1.Hudson, J.J. (29 January 2004). Jazz musician to bring one of her three avant-garde groups to Chico , Chico Enterprise-Record
- 2.The New Cool: Jessica Lurie - Beyond Bicoastal. KNKX Public Radio. 2017-12-15.
- 3.(15 May 2009). SXSW artist interview: Jessica Lurie, mynorthwest.com
- 4.Gottschalk, Kurt (5 September 2009). Jessica Lurie: Shop of Wild Dreams & Laws of Motion, allaboutjazz.com, Retrieved June 15, 2011
- 5.Blumenthal, Bob (13 April 2001). LIVING DAYLIGHTS RELUCTANTLY EMBRACES `JAM BAND' LABEL , Boston Globe
- 6.(19 September 2002). Living Daylights, Cincinnati CityBeat
- 7.Heckman, Don (8 April 2002). Lurie Plays Up Vocal Skills, Los Angeles Times
- 8.HAVC • Croatian film catalogue.
- 9.FIBONACCI BREAD by Danijel Zezelj @ Brooklyn Film Festival.
- 10.Barteldes, Earnest. Jessica Lurie: Shop of Wild Dreams (Zipa!). Jazziz. 26. 3. 74. Summer 2009.
- 11.Graybow, Steven (16 September 2000). Living Daylights Illuminate Seattle Scene, Billboard (magazine)
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