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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]

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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 (2012), a short animation by Croatian artist Danijel Zezelj.[8]

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)[9]
• 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")
• 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

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