I am writing from August in Europe where I did 2 weeks of touring the ONCE multi-media performance with Danijel Zezelj http://www.dzezelj.comin Italy and Austria, finishing with a recording project with accordionist/trumpeter Johannes Steiner http://www.dieresonanz.comin Salzburg (for a tour we’ll be making next March 2011. Now I am in Zagreb, Croatia, just back from the coast for a week (amazing!) and now hanging in the city composing and finally updating the website with photos, videos and new music!

Here are a few new tracks from some of the projects I’ve been busy with this summer:
the ONCE show at the Gardner Museum in Boston – June 2010. Performed by Todd Sickafoose (bass) Marika Hughes (cello) and JL (sax/voice).

New mixes from the Tiptons Sax Quartet’s upcoming CD – hopefully to be released in time for holiday shopping!

CONCERTS/TOURS IN THE WORKS – CHECK FOR UPDATES!
Tiptons Sax Quartet East Coast Tour: We are finalizing dates for the tour Oct 15-24. Let us know if you’d like us at your college or school for workshops!

Jessica Lurie Ensemble European Tour:
Oct 29 – Nov 12 in Slovenia, Croatia, Italy, Austria

Danijel Zezelj, Marjan Stanic, Jessica Lurie ONCE live painting + music
Malmo SWEDEN!! Nov 13
** and hopefully Copenhagen the 14th!

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And here is the original poem:

The Emperor of Ice-Cream

Call the roller of big cigars,
The muscular one, and bid him whip
In kitchen cups concupiscent curds.
Let the wenches dawdle in such dress
As they are used to wear, and let the boys
Bring flowers in last month’s newspapers.
Let be be finale of seem.
The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.

Take from the dresser of deal,
Lacking the three glass knobs, that sheet
On which she embroidered fantails once
And spread it so as to cover her face.
If her horny feet protrude, they come
To show how cold she is, and dumb.
Let the lamp affix its beam.
The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.

—Wallace Stevens