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JOEY SELLERS’ JAZZ AGGREGATION — LIVE FROM CAMPUS JAX
Composer and trombonist Joey Sellers brought his Jazz Aggregation to Campus JAX for an evening of original large-ensemble jazz — including two world premieres and a remarkable performance from an ensemble filled with some of Southern California’s finest musicians.
Joey’s music lives somewhere between composition and discovery. It can swing hard, turn inward, fracture, regroup and suddenly reveal a color you didn’t know was coming. The writing is sophisticated without becoming academic; the musicians are given real architecture, but also room to make the music breathe.
And this band did exactly that.
Alex Iles was exceptional. One of Los Angeles’ most respected trombonists and recording musicians, Alex brought extraordinary command, musicality and imagination to Joey’s music — the kind of playing that reminds you why he has been a first-call musician across jazz, orchestral recording, film and television for decades.
THE BAND
Trumpets
Sean Billings
Ron King
Woodwinds
Jerry Pinter
Dan Kaneyuki
Phil Feather
Trombones
Alex Iles
Ryan Dragon
Bob Lawrence
Joey Sellers
Rhythm Section
Adam Bravo — piano
Trey Henry — bass
Kendall Kay — drums
ABOUT JOEY SELLERS
Joey Sellers is an award-winning composer, trombonist, pianist and educator whose honors include the Gil Evans Fellowship in Jazz Composition, Sammy Nestico Award and Julius Hemphill Award.
His music has been performed by artists and ensembles including Doc Severinsen and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, along with orchestras, chamber ensembles and jazz groups throughout the country.
Joey is Director of Jazz Studies at Saddleback College, and his Jazz Aggregation has served for decades as a vehicle for his distinctive large-ensemble writing — music built around orchestral color, surprise, improvisation and the constantly shifting relationship between structure and freedom.
GO DEEPER WITH JOEY
This performance is part of a much larger Campus JAX story.
Joey joined us just two weeks earlier for FUNNY BONES: A TROMBONE SUMMIT, and the JAX archive also includes an earlier full Joey Sellers Jazz Aggregation performance featuring many of the musicians heard in this concert.
Explore Joey Sellers on JAXblast:
jaxblast.com/artists/joey-sellers
Discover more performances, artists and what’s coming next:
JAXblast.com
🎟 Upcoming Campus JAX events:
CampusJAX.com
❤️ SUPPORT LIVE MUSIC
If this performance gave you something worth keeping, Super Thanks is available right here on YouTube.
You can also support the music directly:
Venmo: @JAXhideaway
Every bit of support helps us continue putting extraordinary musicians on the Campus JAX stage — and preserving performances like this so the moment can live beyond the room.
Campus JAX presents it. MetaJAX produces it. JAXblast makes it yours.
Subscribe to JAX Hideaway for more live jazz from Campus JAX.
#JoeySellers #AlexIles #LiveJazz
JOEY SELLERS’ JAZZ AGGREGATION — LIVE FROM CAMPUS JAX
Composer and trombonist Joey Sellers brought his Jazz Aggregation to Campus JAX for an evening of original large-ensemble jazz — including two world premieres and a remarkable performance from an ensemble filled with some of Southern California’s finest musicians.
Joey’s music lives somewhere between composition and discovery. It can swing hard, turn inward, fracture, regroup and suddenly reveal a color you didn’t know was coming. The writing is sophisticated without becoming academic; the musicians are given real architecture, but also room to make the music breathe.
And this band did exactly that.
Alex Iles was exceptional. One of Los Angeles’ most respected trombonists and recording musicians, Alex brought extraordinary command, musicality and imagination to Joey’s music — the kind of playing that reminds you why he has been a first-call musician across jazz, orchestral recording, film and television for decades.
THE BAND
Trumpets
Sean Billings
Ron King
Woodwinds
Jerry Pinter
Dan Kaneyuki
Phil Feather
Trombones
Alex Iles
Ryan Dragon
Bob Lawrence
Joey Sellers
Rhythm Section
Adam Bravo — piano
Trey Henry — bass
Kendall Kay — drums
ABOUT JOEY SELLERS
Joey Sellers is an award-winning composer, trombonist, pianist and educator whose honors include the Gil Evans Fellowship in Jazz Composition, Sammy Nestico Award and Julius Hemphill Award.
His music has been performed by artists and ensembles including Doc Severinsen and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, along with orchestras, chamber ensembles and jazz groups throughout the country.
Joey is Director of Jazz Studies at Saddleback College, and his Jazz Aggregation has served for decades as a vehicle for his distinctive large-ensemble writing — music built around orchestral color, surprise, improvisation and the constantly shifting relationship between structure and freedom.
GO DEEPER WITH JOEY
This performance is part of a much larger Campus JAX story.
Joey joined us just two weeks earlier for FUNNY BONES: A TROMBONE SUMMIT, and the JAX archive also includes an earlier full Joey Sellers Jazz Aggregation performance featuring many of the musicians heard in this concert.
Explore Joey Sellers on JAXblast:
jaxblast.com/artists/joey-sellers
Discover more performances, artists and what’s coming next:
JAXblast.com
🎟 Upcoming Campus JAX events:
CampusJAX.com
❤️ SUPPORT LIVE MUSIC
If this performance gave you something worth keeping, Super Thanks is available right here on YouTube.
You can also support the music directly:
Venmo: @JAXhideaway
Every bit of support helps us continue putting extraordinary musicians on the Campus JAX stage — and preserving performances like this so the moment can live beyond the room.
Campus JAX presents it. MetaJAX produces it. JAXblast makes it yours.
Subscribe to JAX Hideaway for more live jazz from Campus JAX.
#JoeySellers #AlexIles #LiveJazz
