Joey Sellers

Joey Sellers is an American composer, arranger, and trombonist.

Background

Sellers grew up in Arizona and graduated from Arizona State University. He freelanced for years in New York City and Los Angeles and was Assistant Professor of Jazz Studies at Northern Illinois University. Joey Sellers is currently (2005) Director of Jazz Studies at Saddleback College, California, and teaches improvisation, jazz ensembles, composition, and jazz history.

Music

Joey mainly focuses on jazz and classical. He has written music for the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, Doc Severinsen, symphony orchestras in Tulsa, Long Beach, and San Antonio and several works commissioned by the St. Louis Brass.

Sellers also played and recorded with internationally recognized jazz musicians, including such notables as Dave Liebman, Joe LaBarbara, Bruce Fowler, Lew Tabackin, Kim Richmond, Allen Vizzutti, Conrad Herwig, Bobby Shew, Tony Malaby, Mike Formanek, Clay Jenkins, Toshiko Akiyoshi's Jazz Orchestra and the Kenny Wheeler Large Ensemble.

In 2005, Sellers performed as a guest artist at the Long Beach IAJE conference for the Marshall Ranch Elementary Jazz band. [http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=4943]

Awards

Sellers has been the recipient of the Gil Evans Fellowship in Jazz Composition, the Sammy Nestico Award, and most recently, the Julius Hemphill Composition Award. He is the only artist in history to have received all three awards.

References

External links

* [http://www.saddleback.edu/faculty/jsellers/sellers_bio.html Sellers biography] , Saddleback College. Retrieved 2006-07-22.

*cite web|url=http://www.ventrilocution.net/v2/reviews/joeysellers1.shtml
title=Joey Sellers' Jazz Aggregation - El Payaso (Nine Winds, 2005)
author=Pedro Serôdio
month= November | year= 2005
work=Ventrilocution
accessdate=2006-07-22

*cite web|url=http://herbergercollege.asu.edu/news/newsreleases/2001/som_jazzweek030600.html
title=Finest Jazz Musicians are Showcased at ASU Jazz Week 2000
publisher=Arizona State University
accessdate=2006-07-22