Annie Sellick Jazz Quartet

Annie Sellick may be compared to the greats – “Ella’s playfulness, Carmen’s attitude, Betty’s instincts and Anita’s flair…” (Greg Lee, WMOT jazz radio). But, she is unequivocally and undeniably an original. She has an innate ability to make everyone in the room feel like she is performing just for them.

Growing up in Nashville, TN Annie had no intention of pursuing a career as a performer, but one evening in a “dive bar” near the college she attended in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, Annie sat in with the Roland Gresham (Sr.) Trio. Theband hired her then and there. The Nashville jazz community and its fans spread the word about this young pixie-faced singer with the long dreads whose voice denied both her youth and looks. Her hometown voted her “Best Jazz Vocalist” (the Nashville Scene) five years in a row. Grassroots spread like wildfire and soon she was performing in Canada and Europe and establishing solid home bases centered in Atlanta, Los Angeles and Montreal. Her club appearances in Montreal resulted in an invitation to perform twice at the Montreal International Jazz Festival. She toured with Mark O’Connor’s Hot Swing. She has made six Japan tours both as a soloist and featured vocalist with the Eddie Higgins Trio, David Hazeltine and Grant Stewart Trios and performed and recorded with many of her musical heroes including Joey DeFrancesco, The Jeff Hamilton Trio, the Gerald Clayton Trio and Tommy Emmanuel. She is the featured vocalist on the Tommy Emmanuel Christmas Classics tours.

These days, you might most often see her working with her husband guitarist Pat Bergeson in a duo singing, playing guitar or playing “body percussion”, or fronting the swing band “Annie and the Hot Club”, a guitar and fiddle six piece with whom she has also recorded. She occasionally “comes home” to piano Jazz Quartet performances, often with Atlanta-based pianist Kevin Bales. Sometimes she’s fronting big bands around the southeast