Brian Seeger

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Brian Seeger
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Brian Seeger at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, 2018 with the Organic Trio
Background information
BornAugust 27, 1960
Mount Clemens, Michigan
GenresJazz
OccupationMusician
InstrumentGuitar
Years active1980s–present
Labels Jazz Family
Website brianseeger.com

Brian Seeger is a guitarist, composer, producer, educator, recording engineer, bandleader and forensic musicologist. He was appointed Coca-Cola Endowed Chair in American Jazz Studies [1] at the University of New Orleans in 2023.

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Musical career

Seeger played his first professional gigs as a young teen in New Jersey. Before his senior year of high school, his family moved to Florida. [2] Seeger attended Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida. [3] In the mid-80s, he traveled abroad for several years, performing as a street musician. [2] Upon returning to the US in 1987, Seeger moved to Boston to complete a degree in Guitar Performance at the Berklee College of Music. [4]

Seeger moved to New Orleans in 1991 and began performing and touring with many New Orleans artists, including Davell Crawford, Aaron Neville and Stanton Moore. Seeger was part of Moore's first solo project, Moore and More, and composed many pieces for the group. [5] He appeared on Moore's first two solo records All Kooked Out! [6] and Flyin' the Koop [7] . Other bands Seeger was a part of at this time was Quintology, [8] the New World Funk Ensemble, [9] Neslort [10] and Theresa Andersson. [11] [12]

The early 2000s found Seeger performing more as a bandleader and increasingly producing records for other artists. [13] [14]

Since 2010, Seeger has primarily worked with the Organic Trio, [15] [16] [17] Cindy Scott [18] [19] and Brad Walker, [20] [21] producing several records for all of these artists, as well as performing and writing music for them.

Academic career

Seeger is a full professor in the Music Department of the University of New Orleans and holds the Coca-Cola Endowed Chair in American Jazz Studies. [22] He has been part of the full-time faculty at UNO since 2008. Before that, Seeger was adjunct faculty at the University of New Orleans, Loyola University New Orleans [23] and Delgado Community College. He taught at numerous National Guitar Workshop sessions, and has led workshops and clinics for students around the world. [24] [25] Since 2019, Seeger has worked with several law firms as a forensic musicologist. [26]

Seeger holds a Masters of Music from the University of New Orleans, a Bachelor of Music from Berklee College of Music, and a Bachelor of Arts from Stockton University.

Discography

Source: [27]

As a Performer

As a Producer

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