Jessica Lurie

{{Short description|American composer, performance artist and woodwind player}}

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Jessica Lurie is an American composer, performance artist and woodwind player,Hudson, J.J. (29 January 2004). [http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=CERB&p_theme=cerb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=100B26B7AEE49A8B&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM Jazz musician to bring one of her three avant-garde groups to Chico], Chico Enterprise-Record originally hailing from Seattle{{Cite web |date=2017-12-15 |title=The New Cool: Jessica Lurie - Beyond Bicoastal |url=https://www.knkx.org/jazz-and-blues/2017-12-15/the-new-cool-jessica-lurie-beyond-bicoastal |access-date=2024-04-01 |website=KNKX Public Radio |language=en}} and now living in Brooklyn, New York.(15 May 2009). [http://mynorthwest.com/?nid=332&sid=145327 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). [http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=33838 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). [https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/boston/access/71230948.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Apr+13%2C+2001&author=Bob+Blumenthal%2C+Globe+Correspondent&pub=Boston+Globe&desc=LIVING+DAYLIGHTS+RELUCTANTLY+EMBRACES+%60JAM+BAND%27+LABEL&pqatl=google LIVING DAYLIGHTS RELUCTANTLY EMBRACES `JAM BAND' LABEL]{{dead link|date=July 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}, Boston Globe(19 September 2002). [http://www.citybeat.com/cincinnati/article-7050-living-daylights.html Living Daylights], Cincinnati CityBeat She has also performed as the leader of the Jessica Lurie Ensemble since 2002.Heckman, Don (8 April 2002). [https://web.archive.org/web/20121107030937/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/113055283.html?dids=113055283:113055283&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Apr+08,+2002&author=DON+HECKMAN&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=Jazz+Review%3B+Lurie+Plays+Up+Vocal+Skills&pqatl=google 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,{{Cite web|url=http://www.havc.hr/eng/croatian-film/croatian-film-catalogue/no-sleep-won-t-kill-you|title=HAVC • Croatian film catalogue}} and Fibonacci Bread (2012), a short animation by Croatian artist Danijel Zezelj.{{Cite web|url=http://www.brooklynfilmfestival.org/films/detail.asp?fid=1371|title = FIBONACCI BREAD by Danijel Zezelj @ Brooklyn Film Festival}}