Jessica Lurie Explained

Background:	person
Jessica Lurie
Instrument:	Woodwind

Jessica Lurie is an American composer, performance artist and woodwind player,^[1] originally hailing from Seattle^[2] and now living in Brooklyn, New York.^[3]

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.^[4] In 1995, she also had a first release with the group Living Daylights, which performs jazz-jamband music.^{[5] [6]} She has also performed as the leader of the Jessica Lurie Ensemble since 2002.^[7]

She composed music for No Sleep Won't Kill You (2010) by Croatian filmmaker Marko Mestrovic, co-scored with composer Abraham Gomez-Delgado,^[8] and Fibonacci Bread (2012), a short animation by Croatian artist Danijel Zezelj.^[9]

Discography

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

• !Zipa Buka! (2003, Zipa Music)
• Shop of Wild Dreams (2009, Zipa Music)^[10]
• Megaphone Heart (2012, Zipa Music)
• Carambolage (2021)

• 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)

• Falling Down Laughing (1995, Liquid City)
• 500 Pound Cat (1998, Liquid City)
• Electric Rosary (2000, Liquid City)^[11]
• Night of the Living Daylights (2003)

• 7 NADEs (Tzadik, 1996)
• Theater of Mineral NADEs (Tzadik, 1998)
• The Story of Iceland (Tzadik, 2000)

With Jon Madof's Zion80

• Zion80 (Tzadik, 2013)
• (Tzadik, 2014)

With La Buya

• La Buya (2021)

• Holy Chutzpah (2022)

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)

External links

• Official site
• Jessica Lurie Ensemble collection at the Internet Archive's live music archive

Notes and References

1. Hudson, J.J. (29 January 2004). Jazz musician to bring one of her three avant-garde groups to Chico, Chico Enterprise-Record
2. Web site: 2017-12-15 . The New Cool: Jessica Lurie - Beyond Bicoastal . 2024-04-01 . KNKX Public Radio . en.
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. Web site: HAVC • Croatian film catalogue.
9. Web site: FIBONACCI BREAD by Danijel Zezelj @ Brooklyn Film Festival.
10. Barteldes . Earnest . Summer 2009 . Jessica Lurie: Shop of Wild Dreams (Zipa!) . Jazziz . 26 . 3 . 74 . .
11. Graybow, Steven (16 September 2000). Living Daylights Illuminate Seattle Scene, Billboard (magazine)