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Luke Maxim: Niche Genres, Education & Dave Grohl
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Toronto based jazz vocalist, songwriter and musician Luke Maxim joins us on Bridge The Atlantic this week. Luke is a graduate of the prestigious Humber College Jazz program and he has performed at some of the hottest jazz clubs in Toronto including The Rex, Lula Lounge, Reservoir Lounge. His new album “Stay” is due for release in late 2015. In this interview we talk about education vs experience, specialising in a niche genre and try to define what "selling out" means.
Highlights:
- Luke has a captive audience for this interview in the form of multiple cats and dogs
- We discuss how well dressed Luke is when he performs
- We discuss how David Beckham seems to either be wearing a suit, or just wearing underwear
- Luke tells us how important education and networking has been for him
- We ask Luke for his take on education vs experience (the dogs seem to have an opinion on this debate, too)
- Luke and Marcio talk about the role genre can play in how important education can be
- We hear about Luke’s love of melody and how that has helped guide his musical direction
- Luke tells us what he learned by performing with and meeting some established performers including the Gipsy Kings and Jully Black
- We talk about Luke’s upcoming album and shower him with compliments on the previews we heard
- We veer off topic a little and talk about Dave Grohl for a while
- We all still think the 90s are 10 years ago
- Luke tells us how he makes the jazz genre work for him, by finding a balance between jazz and pop
- We hear Luke’s definition of selling out - and it’s doing something that isn’t honest and genuine to you, musically
- We talk about pop music and how there is a lot of good pop music like what you like, and don’t be ashamed of that
- We challenge Luke to incorporate twerking into his next performance, and then it all goes a little too far
- We have a lot of praise for Seth Macfarlane
- Luke manages to predict our final question… which has never happened before!
More:
- See the full show notes at http://bridge-the-atlantic.com/042
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