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Lurie played alto and soprano saxes, Grant Calvin Weston played drums, and Billy Martin performed on congas, timbales, kalimba, and other small percussion. Unlike the tightly-arranged music of the Lounge Lizards, the Orchestra's music was heavily improvised and compositions were credited to all three musicians.
And they had to be able to play like they just found this weird instrument on the street that no one had ever played before. As evidenced by The Invention of Animals, an archival release from ...
Mar 3, 2021 · Lurie’s National Orchestra is small but mighty; the trio included Calvin Weston on the drums, Billy Martin on various percussion, and Lurie handling soprano and alto sax.
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Apr 22, 2024 · Jazz musician John Lurie's bio, concert & touring information, albums, reviews, videos, photos and more.
JL: I had in my head for very long time a band that could play melodies like classical melodies from the early twentieth century, Varese, Webern, Messiaen, yet it would be improvised and have the hypnotic feel of more exotic musics, like from Bali and Africa.
Mar 28, 2024 · He turned this simple, limited, country instrument into something unbelievable. If he’d been a saxophone player he’d have been Charlie Parker. We did this thing on the last Lounge Lizards record called “Three Crowns of Wood”.
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