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Joey Sellers
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Joey Sellers is an American composer, arranger, and trombonist. Background Sellers grew up in Arizona with three other siblings, Jenni, Jacki, and Jeff 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 (2013) Director of Jazz Studies at Saddleback College, California, and teaches improvisation, jazz ensembles, composition, and jazz history. Music Sellers plays jazz and classical music. He has written for the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, Doc Severinsen, and symphony orchestras in Tulsa, Long Beach, and San Antonio, and several works commissioned by the St. Louis Brass. He has worked with Dave Liebman, Joe LaBarbera, Bruce Fowler, Lew Tabackin, Kim Richmond, Allen Vizzutti, Conrad Herwig, Bobby Shew, Tony Malaby, Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra, and Kenny Wheeler. In 2005, Sellers performed as a guest at the Long Beach IAJE conference for the Marshall Ranch Elementary Jazz band. 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. 
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