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Brian Seeger is a guitarist, composer, producer, recording engineer, bandleader and educator. Seeger 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, and was active in the music scene there. 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 quickly started 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 notable bands Seeger was a part of at this time was Quintology (which also includied two other Moore and More members), the New World Funk Ensemble, Neslort and Theresa Andersson.

The early 2000's 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 Depertment at 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.

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.

As a Performer

 * Matt Booth, Sun Prints' (Independent, 2024)
 * Jason Mingledorff, Start It' (Independent, 2023)
 * Diana Herold, Tree to Tree' (X Marks the Spot, 2023)
 * Cindy Scott, Woman in the Mirror (Catahoula Records, 2023)
 * Diana Herald, Helium. (X Marks the Spot, 2020)
 * Brad Walker, The Dockside Sessions (Independent, 2020)
 * Jeffrey Meyer, Images (Paw Maw Music, 2020)
 * Cindy Scott & Brian Seeger, Sidebar Sessions, Vol. 6 (Independent, 2020)
 * Denise Mangiardi, Brown Book (Alice’s Loft Music, 2019)
 * Charlie Dennard, Deep Blue (Independent, 2018)
 * Organic Trio, Saturn’s Spell. (Jazz Family, 2017)
 * Even Christopher, Bayou Chant and Other Textures (STR Digital, 2016)
 * Matthias Bublath, Time and Changes (Independent, 2016)
 * Thomas Pol, Thomas Pol’s America (Independent, 2016)
 * Brad Walker, Quintet (Independent, 2015)
 * Cindy Scott, Historia (Catahoula Records, 2014)
 * Charlie Dennard, From Brazil to New Orleans (Independent, 2014)
 * Alex Bosworth, Here for You. (Independent, 2014)
 * Organic Trio, Home Remembered. (Independent, 2013)
 * Camile Baudoine, Old Bayou Blues (Threadhead Records, 2011)
 * Cindy Scott, Let the Devil Take Tomorrow (Catahoula Records, 2010)
 * Martin Urbach, Free Will (Independent, 2008)
 * Frederick “Shep” Sheppard, Tradition - The Habari Gani Sessions'' (Drumparade, 2008)
 * Jirka Hala, Make You Wanna Hala (ARTA, 2008
 * Rebecca Barry, Rebecca Barry and the Headhunters (Independent, 2005)
 * Jesse Lewis, The Jesse Lewis Union (Lakefront Digital, 2003)
 * Stanton Moore, Flyin' the Koop (Verve Records, 2002)
 * Seeger, Petersen and Marsalis, Finger to the Universe (Lakefront Digital, 2002)
 * Olivier Bou, Bou-Shah-O-Ray (Olga Records, 2001)
 * Chevere, Baila Mi Ritmo (Independent, 2000)
 * Quintology, Blues By 5. (Independent, 2000)
 * Quintology, Quintology. (Independent, 1999)
 * Various E-Town Live (E-Town, 1997)
 * New World Funk Ensemble, New World Funk Ensemble. (Turnipseed Music, 1997)
 * Stanton Moore, All Kooked Out (Fog City Records, 1998)
 * Loren Pickford Elysian Fields (BMG, 1996)
 * Neslort, Martian Circus Waltz. (Independent, 1996)
 * Edward Petersen, The Test. (Independent 1996)
 * Theresa Andersson, Vibes. (Rabadash Records, 1994)
 * Neslort, Mother’s Call. (Independent, 1993)

As a Producer

 * Carlos Medina, El Salt del Cavall (Seda Jazz Records, 2024)
 * Byron Asher, Lord, When You Send the Rain (Sinking City Records, 2024)
 * Matt Booth, Sun Prints (Independent, 2024)
 * Brad Walker + Extended, Side by Side (Independent, 2024)
 * Extended, Without Notice (Independent, 2022)
 * Cindy Scott, Woman in the Mirror (Catahoula Records, 2022)
 * Brad Walker, The Dockside Sessions (Independent, 2020)
 * Organic Trio, Saturn’s Spell (Jazz Family, 2017)
 * Brad Walker, Quintet (Independent, 2015)
 * Alex Bosworth & Hank Mackie, The Night We Called it a Day (Independent, 2015)
 * Alex Bosworth, Here for You (Independent, 2014)
 * The Session, This is Who We Are(Independent, 2013)
 * Organic Trio, Home Remembered (Independent, 2013)
 * Camile Baudoine, Old Bayou Blues (Threadhead Records, 2011)
 * Cindy Scott, Let the Devil Take Tomorrow (Catahoula Records, 2010)
 * Jirka Hala, Make You Wanna Hala (ARTA, 2008)
 * Martin Urbach, Free Will (Independent, 2008)
 * The Paislies, The Paislies (Fresh Sound/New Talent, 2007)
 * The Hot Club of New Orleans, More! (Independant, 2004)
 * Jesse Lewis, The Jesse Lewis Union (Lakefront Digital, 2003)
 * Olivier Bou, Bou-Shah-O-Ray (Olga Records, 2001)
 * Chevere, Baila Mi Ritmo (Independant, 2000)
 * Quintology, Blues By 5 (Independant, 2000)
 * Quintology, Quintology (Independant, 1999)
 * Edward Petersen, The Test (Independent, 1995)