Jessica Lurie
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Jessica Lurie is an American composer, performance artist and woodwind player,[1] originally hailing from Seattle and now living in Brooklyn, New York.[2]
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.[3] In 1995, she also had a first release with the group Living Daylights, which performs jazz-jamband music.[4][5] She has also performed as the leader of the Jessica Lurie Ensemble since 2002.[6]
She composed music for "No Sleep Won't Kill You" (2010) by Croatian filmmaker Marko Mestrovic, co-scored with composer Abraham Gomez-Delgado,[7] and "Fibonacci Bread", a short animation by Croatian artist Danijel Zezelj.[8]
Discography[]
- Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet: Saxhouse (1993 Spoot & Zipa Music)
- Living Daylights: "Falling Down Laughing" (1995 Liquid City)
- BTMSQ: Box (1996 New World Records)
- The Posies: Amazing Disgrace (1996 Geffen Records)
- BTMSQ & Ne Zhdali: Pollo d'Oro (1997 No Man's Land)
- Living Daylights: 500 Pound Cat (1998 Liquid City)
- BTMSQ: Sunshine Bundtcake (2000 New World Records)
- Jessica Lurie: Motorbison Serenade (2000 Zipa Music)
- Living Daylights: Electric Rosary (2000 Liquid City)[9]
- Billies: Short Cuts (2003 Spoot & Zipa)
- Jessica Lurie Ensemble: !Zipa Buka! (2003 Zipa Music)
- Living Daylights: Night of the Living Daylights (2004 Living Daylights)
- Tiptons: Tsunami (2004 No Man's Land/Spoot & Zipa)
- Tiptons: Surrounded by Horns (2004 Stockfisch)
- Jessica Lurie and Andrew Drury Duo: This is what its like to be (2005 Zipa Music)
- Tiptons: Drive (2005 Spoot & Zipa)
- Jessica Lurie: Licorice and Smoke (2006 Zipa Music )
- The Tiptons Sax Quartet: Laws Of Motion (2008 Spoot & Zipa)
- Jessica Lurie Ensemble: Shop of Wild Dreams (2009 Zipa Music )
- Jessica Lurie Ensemble: Megaphone Heart (2012 Zipa Music )
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)
References[]
- ^ Hudson, J.J. (29 January 2004). Jazz musician to bring one of her three avant-garde groups to Chico, Chico Enterprise-Record
- ^ (15 May 2009). SXSW artist interview: Jessica Lurie, mynorthwest.com
- ^ Gottschalk, Kurt (5 September 2009). Jessica Lurie: Shop of Wild Dreams & Laws of Motion, allaboutjazz.com, Retrieved June 15, 2011
- ^ Blumenthal, Bob (13 April 2001). LIVING DAYLIGHTS RELUCTANTLY EMBRACES `JAM BAND' LABEL, Boston Globe
- ^ (19 September 2002). Living Daylights, Cincinnati CityBeat
- ^ Heckman, Don (8 April 2002). Lurie Plays Up Vocal Skills, Los Angeles Times
- ^ "HAVC • Croatian film catalogue".
- ^ "FIBONACCI BREAD by Danijel Zezelj @ Brooklyn Film Festival".
- ^ Graybow, Steven (16 September 2000). Living Daylights Illuminate Seattle Scene, Billboard (magazine)
External links[]
- Official site
- Jessica Lurie Ensemble collection at the Internet Archive's live music archive
- Living people
- American female composers
- 21st-century American composers
- 21st-century American women musicians
- The Tiptons Sax Quartet members
- 21st-century women composers