John Lurie

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John Lurie (1992)

John Lurie (born December 14, 1952 in Worcester , Massachusetts ) is an American composer , musician , actor , film and music producer as well as painter and author .

Live and act

Music and film

In 1978, Lurie and his brother Evan Lurie founded the group The Lounge Lizards in New York , in which he played alto and soprano saxophone . Lurie coined the term fake jazz to describe the music of the Lounge Lizards.

In the early 1980s he starred in Jim Jarmusch's first three films , for which he also composed the film music: Permanent Vacation , Stranger than Paradise , Down by Law . By Stranger than Paradise at the latest , he had cult status beyond downtown New York with his laconic-cool appearance with Borsalino - fedora and old suit .

For the series Fishing with John from the early 1990s, Lurie invited famous colleagues to fish, although (according to the subtitle) he himself had no idea about fishing. Also present were Willem Dafoe , Matt Dillon , Dennis Hopper , Jim Jarmusch and Tom Waits .

John Lurie founded his own music label "Strange & Beautiful Music" in 1998 and released Lounge Lizards' last album for the time being, Queen of All Ears and the soundtrack for Fishing with John . In 1999 his Marvin Pontiac project, the posthumous “legacy” of an African-Jewish blues musician, was also published here. The character of Marvin Pontiac and all the songs were created by Lurie himself. Lounge Lizards musicians like Marc Ribot and Billy Martin helped with the recordings, as did Eszter Bálint , his co-star from Stranger than Paradise can be heard on the album ( Small Car ). In 2017 a second Marvin Pontiac album was released, Marvin Pontiac: The Asylum Tapes , advertised with the statement: “Marvin Pontiac was anonymously sent a 4 track tape recorder during the years he was held at Esmerelda State Mental Institution. This is what he did with it. "(German:" Marvin Pontiac was anonymously sent a 4-track recording device while he was an inmate of the Esmerelda State Mental Institution. Here's what he made of it. ")

painting

John Lurie 2013.

Lurie withdrew more frequently after being infected with Lyme disease in 1994 and has been painting since then. He has exhibited his naive pictures since 2004 in New York, Munich and Amsterdam, among others, and in Berlin in 2012 and published two books in 2007: Learn to Draw with drawings at Walther König Verlag and A Fine Example of Art at powerHouse, in which he works as a painter as well as appearing for the first time as an author of simple, short texts. Lurie has basically been painting since the 1970s. But it was only the Lyme disease that moved him to concentrate on this art form ("It was like: Ok I am putting my soul into this"). He started out with pencil drawings and now works with watercolor and oil. Lurie sees his paintings as the natural continuation of his painting in childhood and generally refers positively to the “childlike” approach to art. The Museum of Modern Art has added some of his works to its permanent collection.

Open letter

At times Lurie fought for an article about him to be recalled that appeared in The New Yorker magazine in 2010 . Friends and other people interviewed for this article wrote an open letter and mailed it to the magazine. They described in that letter that their words were "twisted, misquoted, or ignored" and that the person described in this article was not Lurie. In addition to friends and acquaintances, the signature list also includes a number of personalities from the art and cultural scene. The article allegedly sparked an already existing stalking situation because it is partly based on false statements by the stalker.

First new appearance in public

Lurie has recently been taking tentative steps back into the public eye, such as at the beginning of January 2013 during an audience discussion on the occasion of the broadcast of his Fishing with John project. A new CD with previously unreleased recordings by the John Lurie National Orchestra has been on the market since January 2014.

Trivia

Lurie is a member of the unofficial "secret club" Sons of Lee Marvin , which was founded in the 1980s by Jim Jarmusch in memory of the actor Lee Marvin .

Filmography (selection)

Discography (selection)

Soundtracks

  • 1980: Permanent Vacation
  • 1985: Stranger Than Paradise / The Resurrection of Albert Ayler (Made to Measure / Crammed Discs)
  • 1987: Down by Law / Variety (MtM / Crammed Discs)
  • 1989: Mystery Train (Milan)
  • 1991: Fishing with John (Strange and Beautiful Music, 1998)
  • 1995: Get Shorty ( Verve )
  • 1996: Manny & Lo
  • 1997: Excess Baggage (Prophesy)
  • 1998: Clay Pigeons - Living Targets (unpublished)
  • 1999: African Swim / Manny & Lo (Strange and Beautiful Music)
  • 2003: Late Night with Conan O'Brien : 10th Anniversary Special (unreleased)

Web links

Commons : John Lurie  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.avclub.com/articles/john-lurie,13553/ "[...]" fake jazz "is a term I invented after our first concert in 1979; I just threw it out there. ”John Lurie in a 1998 interview with Joshua Klein
  2. ^ Fishing with John. Internet Movie Database , accessed May 22, 2015 .
  3. ↑ http://www.strangeandbeautiful.com/marvin/
  4. ↑ Website of the album , accessed on August 22, 2019.
  5. ↑ John Lurie: My Clown's on Fire. New works on paper . Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich 2005, ISBN 978-3000165856
  6. ↑ http://www.johnlurieart.com/biography/
  7. ↑ http://www.exberliner.com/reviews/art-is-john-lurie/
  8. ^ John Lurie: Learn to Draw . Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-86560-087-5
  9. ^ John Lurie: A Fine Example of Art . powerHouse Books, New York 2007, ISBN 978-1576873779
  10. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFyaj6fx7GY&feature=youtu.be
  11. ↑ http://magazine.seymourprojects.com/2012/03/john-lurie-superhero/
  12. ^ Tad Friend Sleeping with weapons. Why did John Lurie disappear , The New Yorker , August 16, 2010
  13. ↑ Open letter /
  14. ↑ Interview with Lurie (jambands.com, February 2011)
  15. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFyaj6fx7GY&feature=youtu.be
  16. ↑ http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/18865-the-john-lurie-national-orchestra-the-invention-of-animals/
personal data
SURNAME Lurie, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American composer, musician, actor, film producer, and record producer, and painter and author
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Worcester , Massachusetts