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Jeffrey Fisher

Currently performing as jazz/world fusion pianist 7/15/16 Highland Springs Resort Grand Oak Steakhouse with drummer Jennifer Vallely

Fisher has performed with jazz great Frank Morgan, the Thelonius Monk-inspired traditional jazz group Evidence Quartet, the Charles Connally Texas Blues Band, Stax Records vocalist Lee Sain, folksinger Sun-Day Martinez, Spanish music legend Antonio Apodaca, world-music bandleader Achyutan, and New Mexico's Trio Jalapeno, among others. Fisher even performed Gaelic music on ice instruments at a ski resort situated at 11,000-feet elevation.

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Beyond the world of music, Jeffrey is a truly eclectic person. He is an accomplished painter (oils and watercolors) who has exhibited in both museums and galleries. He has published six volumes of poetry and five books on Chinese philosophy and martial arts (Amazon). He teaches T'ai Chi Chuan; gives acupressure, reiki, reflexology and auricular medicine treatments; and lectures widely on nutrition, herbology and healing. Over the years he has taught a wide variety of skills to others including music, painting, writing, cooking, mathematics, philosophy, and general "educational improvement." When he wasn't making a living playing music, Jeffrey worked at a variety of jobs including designing and building stage sets off-Broadway, being a motorcycle messenger in New York City, tuning pianos, working in a print-shop and book-bindery in San Francisco, "bucking hay" (stacking bales), picking cherries, cleaning acequias (irrigation ditches) in New Mexico, running art galleries, framing pictures, and building houses (and other construction jobs).

Jeffrey attended Pomona College, where he studied writing, music, acting and experimental theatre. An avid reader, especially of French poetry and the Beat Generation writers, he found the academic world too limiting and at the age of 17, left for San Francisco to work on his writing. After attending the Aspen Writers Workshop and New York University's School of the Arts, Fisher moved to Buffalo to attend the state university and studied everything from computer languages and neuro-physiology to William Blake and vibraphone. Inspired by playing in a popular local rock band and attending the original Woodstock Festival, Fisher began learning guitar and decided to study the origins of blues guitar. He spent several years playing in coffee houses and bars, and traveling across the country several times, one memorable night spent hanging on to the back of a cross-country freight train with one hand while the other held his 1945 Epiphone acoustic guitar. Fisher ended up in Berkeley where he started playing electric guitar on the blues and R&B "chittlin' circuit" backing legendary artists. Eventually he switched to standup bass and began to explore the world of jazz with his own group.

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Jeffrey Fisher Creates "Jazzy" Instrumental Album With Orchestration

Jeffrey Fisher Creates "Jazzy" Instrumental Album With Orchestration

Source: Creative Service Company

Jeffrey Fisher is truly a modern-day Renaissance Man, not just adept at a few creative tasks, but dozens upon dozens of different ones. Fortunately for music lovers, his latest endeavor is an original neo-classical orchestral music CD, Fairy Tales, that he created specifically as the score for the ballet “Hans Christian Andersen." This is music that stands totally on its own as an enjoyable modern classical listening experience, but it also can enchant children and their families as they envision ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Ocean of Consciousness

Healing Music of the Southwest/ Two Birds Flying Music
2008

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