Jessica Lurie Music

JESSICA LURIE is an composer, performance artist, and multi-instrumentalist. She sings, plays saxophone (alto & tenor), flute, clarinet and accordion. She performs and records with her own group The Jessica Lurie Ensemble, as well as the Tiptons Sax Quartet (formerly the Billy Tipton Memorial Sax Quartet), The Living Daylights, and New York's Latin group La Buya, and Balkan groove band Sheqer. Her own group, The Jessica Lurie Ensemble (JLE), highlights Lurie's talents as band leader and composer as well as player. She has collaborated in a wide range of musical styles with international artists such as Bill Frisell, The Indigo Girls, Jenny Scheinman, Sleater Kinney, Amy Denio, NYC's Circus Amok, Great Small Works Theatre Company, Nels Cline, Les Claypool, James Blood Ulmer, The Jacob Fred Jazz Odessy, The Pat Grainey Dance Company, Eyvind Kang, Wayne Horvitz, Frank London, Kenny Wolleson, Allison Miller, the Berkeley Symphony, DJ Logic, Steven Berstein, and visual artist Danijel Zezelj. Jessica's internationally touring group includes many well known artists on the jazz and alternative music scenes. With an original repertoire ranging from American folk to groove, haunting Eastern European melodies, Latin rythms, free jazz and high-energy interaction between members, she and her band create a dynamic and fresh direction in music.