John Lurie

Musician, actor and hipster icon John Lurie was born in Minneapolis but raised in Worcester, MA. As a teen he played the harmonica, even bluffing his way onstage to back the likes of Canned Heat and John Lee Hooker; later he adopted the alto saxophone, and upon moving to New York City he and pianist brother Evan formed the fake-jazz combo the Lounge Lizards in 1978. Emerging from the downtown ...more