Free Livestream: Joey Sellers Quintet

The Irvine Barclay Theatre presents a free livestream with the Joey Sellers Quintet. 

Joey is a highly regarded composer, arranger, trombonist, and educator. He is a recipient of the Gil Evans Fellowship in Jazz Composition, the Sammy Nestico Award, and the Julius Hemphill Composition 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.

Sellers has played and recorded with internationally recognized jazz musicians, including 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.

Sellers freelanced for years in New York City and Los Angeles and was assistant professor of jazz studies at Northern Illinois University. He currently heads the jazz program at Saddleback College and teaches improvisation, jazz ensembles, composition and jazz history.