Laguna Beach Live Features Joey Sellers Quintet 7/3/2013

Laguna Beach Live Summer Jazz Series proudly presents the Joey Sellers Jazz Quintet. Joey Sellers is a highly regarded composer, arranger, trombonist and educator. Sellers, Director of Jazz Studies at Saddleback College, teaches improvisation, jazz ensembles, composition, and jazz history. 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.

Sellers freelanced for years in New York City and Los Angeles and was Assistant Professor of Jazz Studies at Northern Illinois University. Recipient of the Gil Evans Fellowship in Jazz Composition, the Sammy Nestico Award, and most recently, the Julius Hemphill Composition Award, Sellers is the only artist in history to have received all three awards.

Location: Hotel Laguna, Laguna Room
425 S Coast Hwy, Laguna Beach, CA 92651
Laguna Beach , Ca

More information: www.lagunabeachlive.org.

Laguna Beach Live! presents Joey Sellers Quintet

7/3/2013, 6:00 PM

Laguna Beach Live Summer Jazz Series proudly presents the Joey Sellers Jazz Quintet. Joey Sellers is a highly regarded composer, arranger, trombonist and educator. Sellers, Director of Jazz Studies at Saddleback College, teaches improvisation, jazz ensembles, composition, and jazz history. 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.

Sellers freelanced for years in New York City and Los Angeles and was Assistant Professor of Jazz Studies at Northern Illinois University. Recipient of the Gil Evans Fellowship in Jazz Composition, the Sammy Nestico Award, and most recently, the Julius Hemphill Composition Award, Sellers is the only artist in history to have received all three awards.

Location: Hotel Laguna, Laguna Room
425 S Coast Hwy, Laguna Beach, CA 92651
Laguna Beach , Ca

More information: www.lagunabeachlive.org.