JESSICA LURIE ENSEMBLE (New York)

Jessica Lurie, saxophone, flute, accordion, vocals; Allison Miller, drums; Erik Deutsch, keyboards; Brandon Seabrook, banjo, guitar

Jessica Lurie (The Tiptons, Living Daylights…) has recorded four albums with original music. All her recordings feature a true musical vigour, spiced up by various music influences, from jazz, klezmer, Balkan music to American traditional music. Her outstanding new album Shop of Wild Dreams has stayed true to this style. Jessica Lurie plays jazz that loops, sails, and soars without ever losing the listener. An enormously prolific and talented composer, Lurie's works are both groundbreaking and addictive. She reveals and astounding flair for the melody, a sensible use of horns in select songs and inexhaustible energy, equally invested into singing and playing.