John Lurie

About John Lurie

Who is it?: Music Department, Actor, Composer
Birth Day: December 14, 1952
Birth Place:  Hennepin, Minnesota, United States
Residence: New York City
Occupation: Actor, musician, painter and television producer
Years active: 1978–present
Television: Fishing with John, Oz
Website: www.strangeandbeautiful.com www.johnlurieart.com

John Lurie

John Lurie was born on December 14, 1952 in  Hennepin, Minnesota, United States, is Music Department, Actor, Composer. John Lurie is a musician, actor, and painter. In 1978, he formed The Lounge Lizards jazz ensemble with his brother Evan, and the band made music for 20 years. Lurie has also composed scores for films, and his soundtrack for Get Shorty (1995) was nominated for a Grammy award. He had starring roles in the 1980s Jim Jarmusch films Stranger Than Paradise (1984) and Down by Law (1986). In the early 1990s, Lurie wrote, directed, produced, and starred in the TV series Fishing with John (1991). Shortly afterward, he began suffering from Lyme disease. He has shifted his focus to painting, and his artwork has been shown in galleries and museums worldwide.
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Occupation Music Department
Age 71 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born December 14, 1952 ( Hennepin, Minnesota, United States)
Birthday December 14
Town/City  Hennepin, Minnesota, United States
Nationality United States

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John Lurie’s zodiac sign is Capricorn. According to astrologers, Capricorn is a sign that represents time and responsibility, and its representatives are traditional and often very serious by nature. These individuals possess an inner state of independence that enables significant progress both in their personal and professional lives. They are masters of self-control and have the ability to lead the way, make solid and realistic plans, and manage many people who work for them at any time. They will learn from their mistakes and get to the top based solely on their experience and expertise.

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Biography/Timeline

1968

In high school Lurie played basketball and harmonica and jammed with Mississippi Fred McDowell and Canned Heat in 1968. He briefly played the harmonica in a band from Boston but soon switched to the guitar and eventually the saxophone.

1970

Lurie has been painting since the 1970s. The majority of his early works are in watercolor and pencil but in the 2000s he began to work in oil. He has said of his art, "My paintings are a logical development from the ones that were taped to the refrigerator 50 years ago."

1974

After high school Lurie hitch-hiked across the United States to Berkeley, California. He moved to New York City in 1974 then briefly visited London where he performed his first saxophone solo at the Acme Gallery.

1978

In 1978 John formed The Lounge Lizards with his brother Evan Lurie; the Lurie brothers were the only constant members in the band through numerous lineup changes.

1980

In the 1980s Lurie starred in the Jim Jarmusch films Stranger Than Paradise and Down by Law, and made cameos in the films Permanent Vacation and Downtown 81. He went on to act in other notable films including Paris, Texas and The Last Temptation of Christ. From 2001 to 2003 he starred in the HBO prison series Oz as inmate Greg Penders.

1990

Parallel to the final version of the Lounge Lizards in the early 1990s, Lurie formed a smaller group: the ironically-named John Lurie National Orchestra. Personnel were Lurie on alto and Soprano saxes, Grant Calvin Weston on drum kit, and Billy Martin on congas, timbales, kalimba, and other small percussion. Unlike the tightly-arranged music of the Lounge Lizards this group's music was heavily improvised and compositions were credited to all three Musicians.

1991

Lurie wrote, directed, and starred in the TV series Fishing with John in 1991 and 1992. The series later became a cult classic. It featured guests Tom Waits, Willem Dafoe, Matt Dillon, Jim Jarmusch, and Dennis Hopper. It aired on IFC and Bravo and has since been released on DVD by Criterion.

1993

In 1993 Lurie composed the theme to Late Night with Conan O'Brien with Howard Shore. The theme was also used on The Tonight Show when O'Brien hosted. He formed his own record label in 1998, Strange & Beautiful Music, and released the Lounge Lizards album Queen of All Ears and a Fishing with John Soundtrack.

1999

In 1999 Lurie released the album The Legendary Marvin Pontiac: Greatest Hits, a posthumous collection of the work of an African-Jewish musician named Marvin Pontiac, a fictional character he created. The album includes a biographical profile describing the hard life of the troubled genius and the cover shows a photograph purported to be one of the few ever taken of him. Lurie wrote the music and performed with John Medeski, Billy Martin, G. Calvin Weston, Marc Ribot, and Tony Scherr. The album received praise from David Bowie, Angelique Kidjo, Iggy Pop, Leonard Cohen, and others.

2000

Lurie has experienced debilitating ill health since 2000, with initially baffling neurological symptoms. At one point he was told he had a year to live. The doctors he consulted in the first few years did not agree on a diagnosis but by 2006 eight separate doctors agreed that it was "chronic Lyme disease". Lurie has stated, "I have Advanced Lyme." Lurie initially became ill in 1994. The illness prevents him from acting or performing music so he spends his time painting.

2003

His work has been exhibiting since July 2003 when two pieces were shown at the Nolan/Eckman Gallery in New York City. He had his first solo gallery exhibition at Anton Kern Gallery in May and June 2004 and has subsequently been exhibited at Galerie Daniel Blau in Munich, Galerie Lelong in Zürich, the Galerie Gabriel Rolt in Amsterdam, the Basel International Art Fair at Roebling Hall and the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in New York, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the NEXT Art Fair in Chicago, the Mudam Luxembourg, the Watari Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo, Gallery Brown in Los Angeles, and the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.The Museum of Modern Art has acquired some of his work for their permanent collection.

2006

Lurie has released two art books. Learn To Draw, a compilation of black and white drawings, was published by Walther Konig in June 2006. A Fine Example of Art includes over 80 reproductions of his work and was published by powerHouse Books in 2008.

2010

In August 2010 Tad Friend wrote a piece in The New Yorker about Lurie disappearing from New York to avoid a man named John Perry, who, Friend said, was stalking Lurie. In the online literary magazine The Rumpus, Rick Moody noted that Friend's profile in The New Yorker, nominally about Lurie and his art, was two-thirds to three-quarters about Perry including a full page photo of Perry standing in front of one of his own paintings. Moody confirmed that Lurie was very ill with "chronic Lyme disease" and described Perry as a deceitful stalker capable of violence.

2011

In May 2011 Perry undertook a public hunger strike to protest The New Yorker characterizing him as a stalker. Commenting about the protest Lurie said, "He's conducting a hunger strike a half block from my house to prove he's not a stalker." Lurie described the article as "wildly inaccurate," noting that its publication did not resolve anything and that "the situation continues."

2012

Editor David Remnick said the piece in his magazine was "thoroughly reported and fact-checked," But in a letter to The New Yorker in August 2012 several interviewees claimed their words had been "twisted, misquoted, or ignored," and that "the man presented in the article [Lurie] is not the man that we know." In a February 2014 interview Lurie told the LA Times, "What one would hope is that the beauty in the music and in the paintings can somehow transcend and invalidate the kind of sickness that led to the article being written as it was and the kind of irresponsibility that allowed it to be published."

2017

In 2017, after 17 years, John Lurie released his first music album, Marvin Pontiac The Asylum Tapes.

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