Jessica Lurie is an American composer, performance artist and woodwind player,[1] originally hailing from Seattle[2] and now living in Brooklyn, New York.

[3] Lurie first gained notice as a member of The Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet, an all-female horn ensemble who released its first album in 1993.

[4] In 1995, she also had a first release with the group Living Daylights, which performs jazz-jamband music.

[5][6] She has also performed as the leader of the Jessica Lurie Ensemble since 2002.

[7] She composed music for No Sleep Won't Kill You (2010) by Croatian filmmaker Marko Mestrovic, co-scored with composer Abraham Gomez-Delgado,[8] and Fibonacci Bread (2012), a short animation by Croatian artist Danijel Zezelj.