La Luca Azzurra: Jessica Lurie & Metropolizani, by Jessica Lurie & Metropolizani

La Luca Azzurra: Jessica Lurie & Metropolizani

by Jessica Lurie & Metropolizani

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1.	Sunspots 03:40	buy track
2.	Urban Raga 05:21	buy track
3.	Sonny's Blues 06:06	buy track
4.	Weird Grass 01:48	buy track
5.	A Tree Within 01:31	buy track
6.	Bombastic Matador 04:58	buy track
7.	La Luce Azzurra 05:26	buy track
8.	Jungle 1 02:05	buy track
9.	City Dreams 04:35	buy track
10.	Traveling 05:31	buy track
11.	Two 01:01	buy track
12.	Reflex 04:14	buy track

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A beautiful collaborative album recorded in Montepulicaino, Italy, with Jessica and the Metropolizani, a community band. Jessica brought in several compositions and all participants contributed to the creation and performance of the music. The storyline behind the album is based on James Baldwin's "Sonny's Blues", about a the hardships of being black in America and jazz piano player.

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released January 1, 1998

The CD Luce Azzura is comprised of 12 compositions and improvisations created and structured by Jessica Lurie in December 1997, and recorded in Spring 1998. Several of the pieces are collaborations that came out of a week long workshop between Lurie and "I Metropolizani" (a cultural association of 10 musicians and improvisers based in Montepulciano, Italy). All of this music was designed for the multi-media performance "La Luce Azzura", a 50 minute piece based on James Baldwin's novel "Sonny's Blues", that featured artwork and slides by visual artist Danijel Zezelj, and premiered in December 1997 in Italy. Luce Azzurra was mixed and produced by Jessica Lurie and William Dowd, in Seattle 1998. Total time: 46:16

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Jessica Lurie Brooklyn, New York

Boundary defying, Lurie Lurie “melds lyrical pop, stinging rock, rhythmic Eastern European folk music and improvisation- heavy jazz with a dose of free-wheeling avant-groove-meets-grind.” An award-winning multi-instrumentalist, composer, and improviser, Lurie performs on saxophones, flute, accordion, electronics and voice. ... more

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