Brian Seeger


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 at the University of New Orleans in 2023.

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. Seeger attended Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida. In the mid-80s, he traveled abroad for several years, performing as a street musician. Upon returning to the US in 1987, Seeger moved to Boston to complete a degree in Guitar Performance at the Berklee College of Music.
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. He appeared on Moore's first two solo records All Kooked Out! and Flyin' the Koop''.'' Other bands Seeger was a part of at this time was Quintology, the New World Funk Ensemble, Neslort and Theresa Andersson.
The early 2000s found Seeger performing more as a bandleader and increasingly producing records for other artists.
Since 2010, Seeger has primarily worked with the Organic Trio, Cindy Scott and Brad Walker, 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. 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 and Delgado Community College. He taught at numerous National Guitar Workshop sessions, and has led workshops and clinics for students around the world. Since 2019, Seeger has worked with several law firms as a forensic musicologist.
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:

As a Performer

  • Matt Booth, Sun Prints
  • Jason Mingledorff, Start It
  • Diana Herold, Tree to Tree
  • Cindy Scott, Woman in the Mirror
  • Diana Herald, Helium
  • Brad Walker, The Dockside Sessions
  • Jeffrey Meyer, Images
  • Cindy Scott & Brian Seeger, Sidebar Sessions, Vol. 6
  • Organic Trio, Saturn’s Spell
  • Evan Christopher, Bayou Chant and Other Textures
  • Brad Walker, Quintet
  • Cindy Scott, Historia
  • Charlie Dennard, From Brazil to New Orleans
  • Organic Trio, Home Remembered
  • Camile Baudoin, Old Bayou Blues
  • Cindy Scott, Let the Devil Take Tomorrow
  • Frederick “Shep” Sheppard, Tradition - The Habari Gani Sessions
  • Jirka Hala, Make You Wanna Hala
  • Stanton Moore, Flyin' the Koop
  • Seeger, Petersen and Marsalis, Finger to the Universe
  • Olivier Bou, Bou-Shah-O-Ray
  • Chevere, Baila Mi Ritmo
  • Quintology, Blues By 5.
  • Quintology, Quintology.
  • Stanton Moore, All Kooked Out
  • New World Funk Ensemble, New World Funk Ensemble.
  • Neslort, Martian Circus Waltz
  • Theresa Andersson, Vibes
  • Neslort, ''Mother’s Call''

    As a Producer

  • Anna Laura Quinn & Ed Barrett, Just… Quinn & Barrett
  • Sonic Chambers Quartet, Kiss of the Earth
  • Carlos Medina, El Salt del Cavall
  • Byron Asher, Lord, When You Send the Rain
  • Matt Booth, Sun Prints
  • Adonis Rose & the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra arrangements by Edward Petersen, The Purge
  • Brad Walker + Extended, Side by Side
  • Cindy Scott, Woman in the Mirror
  • Brad Walker, The Dockside Sessions
  • Organic Trio, Saturn’s Spell
  • Brad Walker, Quintet
  • Organic Trio, Home Remembered
  • Camile Baudoin, Old Bayou Blues
  • Cindy Scott, Let the Devil Take Tomorrow
  • Jirka Hala, Make You Wanna Hala
  • Martin Urbach, Free Will
  • The Paislies, The Paislies
  • Olivier Bou, Bou-Shah-O-Ray
  • Quintology, Blues By 5
  • Quintology, Quintology
  • Edward Petersen, ''The Test''