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A report by Chris Beck for Splice Today. Saxophonist, bandleader, actor, music composer, painter, writer, and producer for television—there aren’t many people who can list such credits on their resume. John Lurie, who first made a splash in the 1970s as the saxophonist and frontman for the avant-garde “punk jazz” band, The Lounge Lizards, is one of…
comments In his new HBO program "Painting with John," John Lurie wants you to know that he knows the comparisons to Bob Ross are inevitable, but he's there to quickly subvert them. "None of the trees in my paintings are happy," he tells viewers as he dabs his paintbrush on to a watercolor palette. "They're all miserable." Lurie, the founder of the art-jazz band the Lounge Lizards and late-'80s and '90s indie film star, was diagnosed with Advanced Lyme disease in 2004 and ended up resettling in the Caribbean (he refuses to specify which island) after three decades in New York. There, he began ...