NYC-based instrumentalist Jessica Lurie defies all boundaries bringing her individual sound to diverse types of music while preserving their stylistic authenticity.

Jessica's main instruments are saxophones, flute, clarinet, as well as voice and accordion, and she is an avid composer as well. Jessica composes for and performs and records worldwide with several groups including the Tiptons Sax Quartet (formerly the Billy Tipton Memorial Sax Quartet), The Living Daylights Trio, funk-latin band La Buya and Balkan party-band Sheqer.

Her own group, The Jessica Lurie Ensemble (JLE), highlights Lurie's talents as band leader and composer as well as player.

She is currently celebrating her new release Shop of Wild Dreams (2009) co-produced by Todd Sickafoose, that features Todd on acoustic bass, Allison Miller on drums, Erik Deutsch on keyboard, and Brandon Seabrook on banjo and guitar. Shop of Wild Dreams is receiving praise internationally, described as "original, soulful, entirely unpredictable - call it jazz as that's the only genre big enough to contain it but listen for influences from East European choral singing to roots American country gospel, experimental jazz to to deep groovin' funky beats. "

Jessica has performed, toured or recorded with international artists such as Bill Frisell, The Indigo Girls, Danijel Zezelj, Amy Denio, Ellen Fullman, Carlo Actis Dato, Skerik, Mike Clark, Allison Miller, The Pat Grainey Dance Company, Eyvind Kang, Wayne Horvitz, Booker Washington Jr., Leo Neocentelli, Paul McCandless, Calvin Weston, Sleater Kinney, The Shakin' Ray Levis Society, Frank London, Kenny Wolleson, Todd Sickafoose, Brandon Seabrook, Jenny Scheinman, Julie Wolf, James Blood Ulmer Trio, The Brazilian Girls, Les Claypool, Nels Cline, MMW, The Berkeley Symphony and NYC' s Great Small Works theatre company among others.

In 2000, Lurie started her own label, Zipa! Music, and has released 8 recordings as well as being a part of over 35 recordings. In 2006 Jessica was awarded a Sundance Music Institute Fellowship for film composition, and her work as a composer has been supported by national and international granting organizations. She and her groups Living Daylights and The Tiptons Saxophone Quartet are featured in the new jazz documentary Icons Among Us (2009).

Jessica is currently teaching composition and technique in NYC with Orchestra St. Luke's and The Manhattan New Music Project. She has recently co-created several grant supported multi-media workshops for middle school students in Seattle and Brooklyn, combining dance, visual arts and poetry with music composition.

The JLE has been featured at: SXSW, The Zagreb Animateka Festival, Pisa Instabile Festival, Motovun Film Festival, Babel Arts festival, Earwing No Jazz Festival, JVC Jazz Festival, CMJ Jazz Festival, Galeria in Modena D406, Bumbershoot International Music Festival, and the Earshot Jazz Festival. Her latest CD Shop of Wild Dreams (2009) has been reviewed and acclaimed in All About Jazz (NY and Italy), Jazziz, Jazz Times, Downbeat, Chicago Jazz Magazine, The New Yorker, Jambase and the International Review of Music.

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Website :- www.jessicalurie.com