Biography of Usui Yasuhiro .(guitar player,producer,composer) 

Usui Yasuhiro (guitar, producer, composer) 

Usui started his career in junior high school. Since then, he has been 
playing  guitar in diverse music genres. In the middle of the 1990s, he 
started a unique improvisation style that implements the fewest 
possible guitar effectors. He worked with Elliott Sharp, guitarist and 
composer, for a recording in New York, 2003, and played with Sharp as a 
Duo in 2004 and 2005.
Recently Usui has been taking part in internationally  acclaimed 
Japanese free Jazz groups like Shibusa Shirazu Orchestra and Satoko 
Fujii Orchestra. He has been playing with many domestic/overseas 
musicians including Ned Rothenberg (sax), William Parker (b), Fill 
Minton (voice), Peter  Brotzmann (sax) and has been touring world wide.

He has his own label, where he records and produces his own as well as 
other artists’ music.


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