Jessica Lurie is an American composer, performance artist and woodwind player,Hudson, J.J. (29 January 2004). Jazz musician to bring one of her three avant-garde groups to Chico , Chico Enterprise-Record originally hailing from Seattle and now living in Brooklyn, New York.(15 May 2009). SXSW artist interview: Jessica Lurie, mynorthwest.com
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.Gottschalk, Kurt (5 September 2009). Jessica Lurie: Shop of Wild Dreams & Laws of Motion, allaboutjazz.com, Retrieved June 15, 2011 In 1995, she also had a first release with the group Living Daylights, which performs jazz-jamband music.Blumenthal, Bob (13 April 2001). LIVING DAYLIGHTS RELUCTANTLY EMBRACES `JAM BAND' LABEL, Boston Globe(19 September 2002). Living Daylights, Cincinnati CityBeat She has also performed as the leader of the Jessica Lurie Ensemble since 2002.Heckman, Don (8 April 2002). Lurie Plays Up Vocal Skills, Los Angeles Times
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.
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) Megaphone Heart (2012, Zipa Music) Carambolage (2021)
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
Falling Down Laughing (1995, Liquid City) 500 Pound Cat (1998, Liquid City) Electric Rosary (2000, Liquid City)Graybow, Steven (16 September 2000). Living Daylights Illuminate Seattle Scene, Billboard (magazine) Night of the Living Daylights (2003)
With Eyvind Kang 7 NADEs (Tzadik, 1996) Theater of Mineral NADEs (Tzadik, 1998) The Story of Iceland (Tzadik, 2000)
With Jon Madof's Zion80 Zion80 (Tzadik, 2013) Adramelech: Book of Angels Volume 22 (Tzadik, 2014)
With La Buya
La Buya (2021)
With Breslov Bar Band
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)
References
External links Official site Jessica Lurie Ensemble collection at the Internet Archive's live music archive