Living Daylights
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September 2000

Electric Rosary
Liquid City
2000

Electric Rosary
Reviewed By
Glenn Astarita
Mark Corroto

A Seattle bred composer and woodwinder, Jessica Lurie performs and records worldwide with The Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet and The Living Daylights Trio, and collaborates with local and national artists such as Ellen Fullman, Amy Denio, The Indigo Girls, The Shakin' Ray Levis Society, Eyvind Kang, and Wayne Horvitz. In addition to composing for dance, film, and multi-media performances, her musical experience includes work with Booker T. Jones, The Posies, Sleater Kinney, and being a featured soloist with The Berkeley Symphony. She plays saxophone with wailing abandon, and is as comfortable with the squeals and squonks of a John Zorn or Pharoah Sanders as she is with a melodious thing ala Sonny Rollins. She has just completed her first solo CD, Motor Bison Serenade.

Arne Livingston freelance history earned him warm-up slots for such diverse legends as Youssou N'Dour, Thomas Mapfumo, Willie Nelson and James and Livingston Tqylor. In the Boston area Arne played with Joshua Redman, Roy Hargrove, Bob Moses, and Antonio Hart. The Living Daylights encourages a new direction in electric bass and Arne is well recognized for his contribution to widening the role of the electric bass in modern music. Arne's playing and the success of The Living Daylights earned him a full-page feature in the Fall '99 issue of Bass Player Magazine.

Called, "a drummer to watch closely in the coming years", by Modern Drummer magazine, Dale Fanning was the drummer on the Smithsonian Institutes' "Safarini; Music of African Immigrants" released this year. He co-wrote and produced Magdalen Hsu-Li's Glamma nominated national release "evolution", and has recorded and performed with Wayne Horvitz, Critters Buggin', D.J. Nasir, Mark Whitfield, Pete Droge, Jerry Joseph, and Omar Torrez.