Jessica Lurie

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Jessica Lurie is an American composer, performance artist and woodwind player, originally hailing from Seattle and now living in New York.

She performs and records worldwide with the Tiptons Sax Quartet (formerly the Billy Tipton Memorial Sax Quartet), the Living Daylights (Seattle), and New York's Latin group La Buya. Her own group, The Jessica Lurie Ensemble (JLE), shows Lurie's talents as band leader and composer as well as player.

Jessica's touring groups include jazz and alternative music artists. Her current New York line-up features Todd Sickafoose on acoustic bass (Ani DiFranco), Allison Miller on drums (Natalie Merchant) and Erik Deutsch on keyboard. Other regular guests include Scott Amendola (dr, Madeline Peyroux), Jon Evans (bs, Tori Amos), Nels Cline (gtr, Wilco) and Julie Wolf (pn, Ani diFranco) as well as Italian musicians Zeno de Rossi (dr), Danilo Gallo (bs) and Giorgio Pacorig (pn).