John Lurie better known, or at least by me, as an excellent support or lead player in Jim Jarmusch Eighties classics such as Stranger Than Paradise, was also a considerably talented musician. Just take a listen to his band Lounge Lizards' eponymous debut where he led the band and played sax if you don't believe me.
It's the last word in ultra cool angular Jazz posturing. The kind of thing that hipster types like Jarmusch would have posed in the front row of ultra cool dives for and positively purred in appreciation.
Records of this sort don't get any better. Lurie also has a highly praised memoir that's well worth tracking down I'm told.
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