John Lurie
Actor and Musician
Stranger Than Paradise on DVD....sitting on the floor of their Memphis, Tenn., hotel room with lipstick-smeared faces. He also frequently casts musicians as his actors (John Lurie, Tom Waits, Iggy Pop, and Jack and Meg White, among others), and his soundtracks, featuring... In this article: Jim Jarmusch, Stranger Than Paradise, Cleveland, In a Lonely Place, Bill Murray, John Lurie, and Elvis Presley |
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all about jazz | November 08, 2009
Sex Mob: Sexmob Meets Medeski live in Willisau 2006
...magician Bernstein himself, whose exotic career as sideman, musical director, arranger and composer has included ten years with John Lurie's Lounge Lizards and stints alongside everyone from Bill Frisell to Sam Rivers, the Flying Karamazov...
In this article: Steven Bernstein, Sex Mob, John Medeski, Spanish Fly, John Barry, Black and Tan Fantasy, Kenny Wollesen, You Only Live Twice, and Duke Ellington
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Wikipedia | November 05, 2009
John Lurie
...and Galerie Daniel Blau in Munich. They were on show at the Mudam museum in Luxembourg from October 11, 2008 to December 8, 2008. John Lurie's show The Skeleton in my closet has moved back out to the garden, is on view at Fredericks & Freiser...
In this article: Evan Lurie, New York, Marc Ribot, Billy Martin, Munich, and DVD
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boston.com - Top arts and entertainment stories | October 24, 2009
With Go Home, Goldberg returns to jazz roots
...tour with the group Goldberg recruited Fowlkes, a supremely versatile musician who's probably best known for his work in John Lurie's Lounge Lizards and the Jazz Passengers. "Charlie and Curtis have played together a lot and are crazy...
In this article: Charlie Hunter, Curtis Fowlkes, Kenny Wollesen, Jazz Passengers, Klezmorim, John Zorn, and Masada
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Sunday Mirror | October 21, 2009
QUIZWORD CROSSWORD
...is Ra (6) 2 Melvin Burgess novel whose central characters are Tar and Gemma (4) 3 and 15 1986 film starring Tom Waits and John Lurie (4,2,3) 4 and 11 Boxer who became WBC Light Welterweight champion in August, 2009 (5,9) 5 Town in...
In this article: North Sea, Evelyn Waugh, Tom Waits, Scotland, France, and Hudson Bay
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Fishing with John
Fishing with John is a 1991 cult television series conceived, directed by and starring actor and musician John Lurie. On the surface, the series resembles a standard travel or fishing show : in each episode, Lurie takes a famous guest on a...
In this article: Fishing with John, Jim Jarmusch, Tom Waits, Steven Bernstein, and DVD
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Down by Law (film)
Down by Law is a 1986 black-and-white independent film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch. It stars Tom Waits, John Lurie, and Roberto Benigni. The film centers on the arrest, incarceration, and escape from jail of three men. It...
In this article: Down by Law, Nicoletta Braschi, Roberto Benigni, Tom Waits, Jim Jarmusch, and New Orleans
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The Lounge Lizards
The Lounge Lizards are a jazz group formed in 1978 by saxophone player John Lurie; they should not be confused with country satire group the Austin Lounge Lizards. Initially a tongue in cheek "fake jazz" combo, drawing on punk rock and no...
In this article: Austin Lounge Lizards, Arto Lindsay, Roy Nathanson, Curtis Fowlkes, Evan Lurie, Erik Sanko, Steven Bernstein, and Thelonious Monk
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Peloton: Funeral, Circus and other music
...core this music is less demanding without losing its intellectual appeal. The band claims influence from Jim Jarmusch and John Lurie, and there is certainly a feeling of accompanying drama. The groove is sometimes reminiscent of Joe...
In this article: Finland, William Burroughs, Hamid Drake, William Parker, Jim Jarmusch, Joe Morris, and Helsinki
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Boing Boing | July 21, 2008
Del-Byzanteens, featuring Jim Jarmusch and John Lurie
...their lyrics. BB pal Vann Hall found not one, but two videos on YouTube of Del-Byzanteens covering The Supremes' "My World Is Empty Without You." John Lurie is featured in two of them. Del Byzanteens "My World is Empty" video #1, #2 (YouTube)
In this article: Jim Jarmusch, YouTube, My World Is Empty Without You, No Wave, and The Supremes
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Wired: Listening Post | June 25, 2008
For Those About to Rock, We Read You Listening Post from Wired.com
...600-page manifesto documenting the genre's core tenets laid out like, what else, a Bible. Credibility, by any means necessary! John Lurie: That's not all for powerHouse: They've also got an art book coming out from John Lurie, the...
In this article: Robert Pollard, Guided by Voices, Juliana Hatfield, Wired.com, Bear Surprise, Fantagraphics, Pitchfork, John Wiley and Sons, and MySpace
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John Lurie (born December 14, 1952) is an actor, musician, painter and producer born in Minneapolis, MN, USA.
In 1978 he formed The Lounge Lizards, initially a fake-jazz combo, with his brother Evan Lurie. The Lounge Lizards exhibited the talent of artists such as Calvin Weston, Billy Martin, Oren Bloedow, Steve Bernstein, Marc Ribot, among others. The band continued to make music for 20 years. During this time, Lurie recorded 22 albums, including "The John Lurie National Orchestra's Men With Sticks". Lurie composed music scores for over 20 movies the most notable being "Stranger than Paradise", "Down by Law", "Mystery Train", "Manny and Lo", "Clay Pigeons", "Animal Factory" and "Get Shorty", which earned him a Grammy Nomination.
During the 1980s he starred in a number of films directed by Jim Jarmusch, namely "Stranger Than Paradise", "Down by Law", and "Permanent Vacation". Lurie also starred, during 2001-2003, on the HBO prison series "Oz" as inmate Greg Penders.
His 1991 TV series Fishing with John, which Lurie wrote, directed and starred in, was a cult success. The critically acclaimed series aired on IFC and Bravo. Episodes included guests such as Tom Waits, Willem Dafoe, Matt Dillon, Jim Jarmusch and Dennis Hopper.
In 1999 Lurie released the album The Legendary Marvin Pontiac - Greatest Hits, which was purportedly a posthumous collection of the work of an insane African-Jewish musician named Marvin Pontiac (1932-1977). Pontiac, however, was a fictional character,
and the music was actually written by Lurie, and performed by Lurie, Marc Ribot, and Tony Scherr.
The album included praise from David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Leonard Cohen, and others, who were in on the joke, and a fictional "biography" was published in Allmusic.com
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