Jazz Articles about Jessica Lurie

Jessica Lurie: In It For The Long Haul

by Paul Rauch
January 9, 2018

Jazz music, in all its forms, spread throughout world culture, is deeply embedded in the American experience. It is a culture based phenomena uniquely reflecting that experience in such a personal and expressive way as to embrace the myriad of crosscurrents that express new interpretations of the form. It is deep as the physicality of its beings, from the heart that pumps life into its veins, to the soul and conscious understanding of the constant, forever assimilation of ...

Jessica Lurie: Long Haul

by Paul Rauch
December 22, 2017

Jessica Lurie's new aptly titled release Long Haul (Chant, 2017) is a statement not of an arduous journey of endurance, but of her devotion to craft over three decades that has seen her carve out a musical identity of great diversity and depth. Her career personifies her experience as a strong woman instrumentalist, composer and vocalist in a male dominated genre, steeped in joyous interpretive revelation. While citing influences ranging from Klezmer, to Cuban, to jazz, Lurie's music is her ...

Jessica Lurie Ensemble: Megaphone Heart

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 19, 2012

La newyorkese Jessica Lurie non si accontenta di suonare un solo strumento, ma vuole di più: sassofoni, flauti, clarinetti e anche la fisarmonica. In più: non disdegna di cantare. Non è finita: nel suo bagaglio spazioso ha in serbo escursioni nei generi disparati. Che si tratti di far dialogare allegramente e con fantasia: folk, jazz, rock e country, non si spaventa nemmeno un po...' Ecco, il suo ultimo disco (dopo almeno una quindicina di titoli in catalogo) porta a compimento ...

Jessica Lurie Ensemble: Shop of Wild Dreams

by AAJ Italy Staff
July 31, 2009

Da più di vent'anni la sassofonista Jessica Lurie è un'instancabile protagonista della scena underground. Anche in Italia ha suonato moltissimo, soprattutto alla guida della band funky-jazz Living Daylights, del quartetto sassofonistico al femminile Tiptons e anche del suo ensemble. In Shop of Wild Dreams, come era già successo in altre occasioni, si cimenta anche come cantante, alla guida di un gruppo che rimanda in parte alle sue esperienze precedenti e che è alle prese con una serie di canzoni originali ...

The Tiptons Sax Quartet: Laws of Motion

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 17, 2009

La storia della musica afroamericana annovera un certo numero di quartetti per soli sassofoni che nel corso degli anni da semplici sezioni per grandi orchestre (su tutte i Four Brothers di hermaniana memoria), hanno via via acquisito valenza artistica e autonomia esecutiva. Basti ricordare blasonate formazioni dagli innegabili meriti artistici quali il World Saxophone Quartet, il Rova Quartet, 29th Street Saxophone Quartet. Ma i quartetti di sax composti da sole donne si contano sulle dita di una mano! The Tiptons ...

Jessica Lurie / Andrew Drury: That Is What It's Like To Be

by Celeste Sunderland
December 27, 2006

Stylistic and atmospheric shifts occur frequently and abruptly on This Is What It's Like To Be, derived from a combination of skill and poor recording techniques. Saxophonist/flutist Jessica Lurie and drummer/percussionist Andrew Drury recorded four tracks in their basement “studio, and five others were captured live in varying locales. Though the result turns out rather disjointed, it's an interesting amalgamation of the various ways these two instruments can interact and interpret the music they make together, as well as apart. ...

Jessica Lurie: Drive & Licorice & Smoke

by Celeste Sunderland
June 10, 2006

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The Tiptons, that notorious, all-female saxophone quartet from Seattle, have a tremendous amount of fun playing together. Throw on any of the group's albums, released by their former band The Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet (named for a woman ...