Ciao Tutti , Friends and Music Lovers!
Happy late Summer Friends and Music Lovers! The Heat is on for the world in so many ways
It is a turbulent time, between politics and election tensions, climate change, the many wars and destruction around us, and I feel blessed to be able to keep making music and connecting with so many people through sound and art. Below is a short list of news and new sounds available and coming up, new happenings, videos, etc. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions. Thank YOU as always for supporting creative music and art, live and online. Please follow me on Bandcamp to get updates on new releases and help support other great independent musicians. https://jessicalurie.bandcamp.com/follow_me
Wishing peace, love, compassion and strength to all, Jessica
Concerts & Happenings Calendar 2025
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• 8/1 & 8/2 Poughkeepsie, NY: Heather Christian’s NONE: A Practical Breviary
Heather Christian wrote an incredible new show called NONE – part of her breviary mass series – and we’re doing a workshop/reading of it up at New York Stage And Film at Marist College. I’ll be orchestrating for the multi-instrumentalist wind chair (flutes and saxophones). None: A Practical Breviary is the 4th mass in Heather Christian’s Practical Breviary series, and is a wildly imagined adaptation of the medieval monastic 3pm service. The music is lush, an infusion of gospel, classical, neo-soul and rock, played by a teacup orchestra alongside NASA field recordings from our solar system. As with Christian’s other breviary masses, NONE is a secular riff on a mass for atheists and agnostics and amateur physicists and devouts of all religions in this specific time of social injustice, political rage, environmental catastrophe and pervading anxiety that hopes to shine enough light on the wound to treat it. https://www.newyorkstageandfilm.org/none
• Thurs. 8/14 Seattle, WA: Schoolhouse PUNK! with Jessica Lurie (woodwinds, vocals) & Brittany Anjou (piano, voice) @The Fiddlers Inn 7-9PM Jessica Lurie + Brittany Anjou present SCHOOLHOUSE PUNK: Anti-fascist experimental jazz folk funk standards that rage against the machine.
• Sat. 8/23 Seattle, WA: Layne Staley Tribute Fundraiser Concert guest with Rain Light Fade @The Neptune Theater ~ 8 PM
• Mon. 8/25 Seattle, WA: Seattle legendary activist and singer songwriter Jim Page with special guests Jessica Lurie & Grant Dermody @The Couth Buzzard
• Sat. 8/30 Seattle, WA: Brittany Anjou, Jessica Lurie, Julie Slick, Laura Cromwell @The Mermaid Lounge
303 N 36th St Seattle, WA 98103 Anti-fascist experimental jazz folk funk
• Tues. 9/9 Park Slope Brooklyn, NY: Helen Gillet with Special Guest Jessica Lurie ~ 7 PM @Barbes Brooklyn
• Tues. 9/16 Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY: Patrick Brennans’ Transparency Kestra @Starr Bar ~ public open rehearsal at 6:15 / followed by a break / then concert at 7:30. Presented by Andrew Drury & Continuum Culture & Arts
• Wed. 9/10 NYC: House Concert TBD with Helen Gillet, Jessica Lurie & more
- Fri. 9/19 Port Washington, NY: Friday Night Live with Naomi Less, Musical Shabbat at Temple Beth Israel
• Sat. 9/20 Ft Tryon Park, NYC : Alterations & Repair Dance Music & Poetry Walking Concert
Performance: Saturday Sept. 20th at 3PM / Rain date: Sunday, Sept. 21 at 3PM
Dance poetry and music with Amy Kail, Navarra Novy-Williams, Sandra Rivera, Maxine Steinman, John Ehlis, Lisa Green, Jessica Lurie, Daniel Odria and more! Funded by The Fort Tryon Trust, LMCC (UMEZ), The Columbia Neighborhood Fund, and The Harkness Foundation for Dance.
• Sat. 9/20 Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY: House Concert & Hang with the brilliant Ken Butler, Amy Denio and Yours Truly! details TBA www.kenbutler.squarespace.com
• Tues. 9/23 Brooklyn NY : Brittany Anjou’s Bi TYRANT CD Release Party – a fantastic new CD! @ C’mon Everybody ~ 8 – 10 PM
- Fri. 9/26 Seattle: PB & Jam Festival ~ The Flava Crystals (members of Living Daylights & McTuff) 11 PM @Hidden Hall
with Arne Livingston, Jessica Lurie, Andy Coe, Joe Doria and D’vonne Lewis 400 N. 35th, 98103 TICKETS - Sat. 9/27 Seattle: PB & Jam Festival ~ Jessica Lurie Artist at Large, playing a tweener duo set with Arne Livingston
- Oct 16 St. Augustine, FL: Colonial Oak Music Park playing horns with Polyrhythmics! Excited to be joining the Polyrhythmics for a couple dates on horns in the middle of their Life From Below Tour
- Oct 17 Tampa, FL: Polyrhythmics @Clearwater Jazz Fest
- Mon. 11/3 NYC: Joe’s Pub Taylor Mac’s The Hang CD Release! ~ 7 PM TICKETS This was such a fabulous musical production to be a part of in 2022: Libretto by Taylor Mac, music by Matt Ray with an absolutely killing band! Hope you can join us! Taylor Mac and Matt Ray, and the company The Hang, are having an album release party/show. Selections from their jazz opera, about the final hours of the life of Socrates, will be performed by the original company. The Hang, premiered in 2022, at the Here Arts Center, and was nominated for Best Musical of the year by both the Drama Desk and Drama League Awards.
• 11/8 the Stone NYC with Basya Schechter’s Kabbalah Kirtan Avant Garde band!
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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/19/theater/terce-review-heather-christian.html?smid=url-share
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REVIEWS of Taylor Mac’s THE HANG! this was such an incredible performance to be a part of . Future plans for the show are in the works! Stay tuned!
• https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/23/theater/the-hang-review.html
• https://www.thewrap.com/the-hang-review-taylor-mac-socrates/
• https://www.vulture.com/2022/01/theater-review-taylor-macs-the-hang.html
• https://www.theatermania.com/off-off-broadway/reviews/review-taylor-mac-the-• hang-socrates_93260.html
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LINKS TO LIVESTREAM PERFORMANCES:
Heather Bentley (viola, electronics) & JL (flute,sax) Duo , Live at the Wayward in Limbo music series, March 23, 2021 at The Chapel, Seattle, WA.
Wayward in Limbo with the redoubtable Steve Peters as ears and gears. We are beyond honored to be included in this incredible pandemic project which has now generated over a hundred unique sonic offerings. Truly the best in midnight listening. Thank you Steve and Wayward, and hang in there music peeps. We’re still vibrating. We’re #102
Seattle singer-songwriter Jim Page with JL as special guest on alto sax. April 2021
Joe Doria (Hammond B3) • JL (flute, sax) • Heather Thomas (drums) Live from Joe’s Garage ~ two great nights of music, sonic lights and improvisations
January 31, 2021 Livestream Performance
March 2, 2021 Livestream Performance
Unhappy with the prospect of not playing live with others and dissatisfied with other mask designs, I designed sturdily built to last, with reinforced seams, bridge, and double upper and lower elastic straps with adjusters for extra support and a perfect fit! Many thanks to Michael Winograd, Dan Blacksberg and my Mom for their help getting this venture off the ground. It’s still evolving but here is my funny promo video! Also if you don’t play horn you can use it for drinking fancy drinks during pandemic cocktail hour! Please feel free to message me with any questions you have! zipamusic@gmail.com.
You can check out mask designs and other handmade items at my ETSY store!
• MUSIC LESSONS! I’m giving online lessons on flute, saxophone, clarinet, singing, composition and improvisation! Please contact me directly if you’re interested! zipamusic@gmail.com
• Recording/Overdubbing/Arranging for your music needs: I am available for recording, arranging, making transcriptions and producing, creating short sound tracks as well recording woodwinds and vocals via my home studio. Please inquire!