The Joey Sellers Trio

Joey Sellers (tb), Trey Henry (ba), Kendall Kay (dr)
SUNDAY, May 4 @ 4 pm

TIX: $25
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Includes Libations & Tasty Bites | LIMITED Seating -- Reservations Required | Valley Glen Address Given with Reservation

“Sellers is one of few composers whose ideas actually press into new shapes; it's not just a half dozen soloists coloring a big band core.” — Ben Ratliff, New York Times

Questions? E-Mail Me: suze[at]susankrebsmusic.com

Joey Sellers Bio

Born in Phoenix, Arizona in 1962, Joey Sellers is recipient of the Gil Evans Fellowship In Jazz Composition, the Sammy Nestico Award, and the Julius Hemphill Award. An accomplished composer in both jazz and classical idioms, Sellers has written for Doc Severinsen, the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, symphony orchestras in Tulsa, Long Beach and San Antonio and several works commissioned by the St. Louis Brass. Warner Brothers, Advance Music, and Hal Leonard have published his music and transcriptions. He has received grants from the American Music Center, Meet the Composer, and the National Endowment for the Arts. A short list of Sellers' commissions includes: "Three Fantasies for Steelpan and Orchestra" for Liam Teague, "Concerto for Jazz Piano and Orchestra" for Chuck Marohnic, Odd Children: Piece for Marimba and Wind Ensemble for Robert Chappell,"Three Essays/Four Saxophones" for the Northern Illinois University Saxophone Quartet, "Aperitif, Tale, Digression and Entrée for Tuba and Clarinet" for Sam Pilafian and Robert Spring, Requiems for Wayne Bergeron, and "Miss Rogers' Boots" for the Airmen of Note.

Sellers was assistant professor of music at Northern Illinois University; he is currently Director of Jazz Studies at Saddleback College. He lives in Mission Viejo, California with his wife, clarinetist Susan Sellers, and their children, Corissa and Benjamin.