"Interview with Jeff Usher"
Item
- Title
- "Interview with Jeff Usher"
- Description
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Jeff Usher is a jazz and blues composer, arranger, pianist, vocalist, teacher, lecturer, and music consultant.
Interview Summary
Jeff Usher is a visually impaired Australian jazz musician with a rich history of playing music since childhood, influenced by a significant early encounter with the Jazz Action Society and key individuals like his high school music teacher Kathleen Kerr and his supportive family. Throughout his career, he has worked with a diverse range of musicians across many genres, including country, rock, and church music, and has expanded his repertoire to include political and spiritual themes, often infused with his synaesthetic experience of colour. Despite a broad professional experience, his engagement with the disability arts space developed over time, particularly through collaboration with other disabled artists, and he values working with good artists regardless of their backgrounds or disabilities. He is deeply committed to his craft, finding a balance between the aesthetic quality of his work and the joy it brings, both to himself and his audiences. - Identifier
- IV00032
- Publisher
- Disability Arts History Australia
- datePublished
- 2022
- Relation
- Brisbane
- Queensland
- Disability Arts History Australia
- Salubrious Productions
- Access2Arts
- Arts Access SA
- Arts In Action
- High Beam Festival
- Asia Pacific Wataboshi Festival
- Access Arts
- Awakenings Festival
- Adelaide Fringe Festival
- Brisbane Jazz Club
- Butterfly Club
- Accessible Arts
- ACE Magazine
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"AccessArts - Asia Pacific Wataboshi Music Festival"
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"Access Arts Newsletter 1999"
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"Access Arts Annual Report 2019-2020"
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"Chameleon - Presenter Pack"
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"Accessible Arts - ACE Arts Creativity Expression -2003 Dec - Iss27"
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"Undercover Artist Festival Program 2017"
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"Access Arts - Move Over Beethoven"
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"Access Arts Annual Report 2014"
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"High Beam Festival Program 2004"
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"Arts in Action Annual Report 2004"
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"Salubrious Productions Website, captured 2007"
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"Interview with Janelle Colquhoun"
- Greg Quigley
- Janelle Colquhoun
- Jeff Usher
- Kathleen Kerr
- Neal Price
- Warren Trout
- gender
- Male
- category
- CreativeWork
- Type
- Conversation
- Format
- URL, Video, Text
- inLanguage
- English, Auslan
- keywords
- Music
- Festivals
- Grant
- Blind or Low Vision Arts and Artists
- Blind or low vision
- Access
- Participation in public and political life
- Participation in cultural life
- video
- DAHA_JeffUsher_Interview_2022.mp4
- transcript
- DAHA_JeffUsher_Interview_2022-PDFA.pdf
- url
- https://web.archive.org/web/20230601063217/http://salubriousproductions.com/bands_jeff_usher_jazz_unit.html
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Linked resources
| Title | Class |
|---|---|
| "Interview with Janelle Colquhoun" |
CreativeWork |
| Access Arts | Organization |
| Accessible Arts | Organization |
| Adelaide Fringe Festival | Organization |
| Adelaide International Fringe Festival | Organization |
| Arts Access SA | Organization |
| Asia Pacific Wataboshi Festival | Organization |
| Asia Pacific Wataboshi Music Festival | Organization |
| Awakenings Festival | Organization |
| Brisbane Jazz Club | Organization |
| Butterfly Club | Organization |
| Disability Arts History Australia | Organization |
| Greg Quigley | Person |
| Janelle Colquhoun | Person |
| Jeff Usher | Person |
| Kathleen Kerr | Person |
| Neal Price | Person |
| Salubrious Productions | Organization |
| Warren Trout | Person |
| Wataboshi Festival | Organization |
| Wataboshi Music Festival | Organization |
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