Speaking to Jeff serves as a reminder that, really, music isn’t about temper tantrums at the piano. But what unites it all is that underlying joyful approach to creativity. In our conversation, Jeff jumps from stories to concepts with the infectious curiosity of a kid who can’t decide what to bring to class for show-and-tell. “I felt like I’d hit this new paradigm of musical enlightenment”.
“One moment that really stands out in my memory is picking up a guitar when I was in grade six, and I was able to just sort of work out the melody to The Eagles’ Hotel California by feeling it out on one string”, he says. That joyfully experimental streak - a gut-level ability to simply pick up, play, and worry about the details later - has proven to be a defining theme of Jeff’s own career. Jeff’s father spent his musical career sitting behind the drums but, like his son, he was able to pick up a handful of different instruments through sheer intuition. “It wasn’t his day job, but it was enough to show me that music could have a truly meaningful impact on life if I let it”. That’s an ability I’ve been able to pick up”, he says. But my dad - although a drummer - was able to pick up music by gut and by ear. My mom played piano by reading the notes. Looking back, it probably couldn’t have happened any other way.
But fate wasn’t about to keep Jeff away from the world of audio for long. “As a kid I turned away from music, mostly because I kept having temper tantrums at the piano” he recalls, in a scene likely familiar to anyone who attempted to master musicianship as a young child.
For Jeff Lurie, music and sports are home - but this now former athlete has chosen to go all-in on the audio game.
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