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For
several years, Joe Sealy has enjoyed a successful career
as a musician, actor, composer, music director and recording
artist. He has worked in variety television and in such
films as "Brown Bread Sandwiches" and "I'll
Take Manhattan". Joe was featured in the Bravo
television "Jazz Man" series and in Adrienne
Clarkson presents, "The Spirit of Africville".
He was also featured in the stage productions of "Ma
Rainey's Black Bottom" and "Lady Day at Emerson's
Bar & Grill" and won a Dora Mavor Moore award
for music direction in the Toronto production of "Ain't
Misbehavin'". Joe has performed with a wide variety
of notable performers such as Sammy Davis Jr., and John
Candy, and with jazz greats, Joe Williams and Milt Jackson.
He also toured for six months with "Blood Sweat
& Tears".
In January and February of 1997, Joe completed a 19
concert tour including the Canadian Embassy in Washington,
D.C. of his Juno winning CD release, "Africville
Suite". In the spring of 1997, Joe was featured
in a 20 city national tour of Timothy Findlay's "Piano
Man's Daughter" along with Veronica Tennant and
Sylvia Tyson. He was also a featured guest on the "Hallelujah"
television show. In 1998 the Joe Sealy quartet performed
in 8 concerts in Western Canada, including live appearance
on "Vicki Gabareau Show" and did a 2 week
tour of Norway and Denmark including a performance at
the world famous "Jazz House" in Copenhagen.
In the same year he was nominated for a Gemini award
for his musical score for the documentary film "The
Road Taken".
In the year 1999 Joe wrote and recorded a new theme
and music for Television Ontario's "Imprint"
book show and in the same year he and his music/business
partner Paul Novotny, released their Juno nominated
CD, "Blue Jade". Joe often performs in concert
as a soloist, and with The "Nathaniel Dett Chorale".
He has also been touring with Cindy Church and George
Koller in their Hoagy Carmichael musical revue called
"The Nearness Of You", and were featured performers
on the televised 2002 East Coast Music Awards Show.
In October of 2003, Joe and Paul released a seasonal
CD called "The Man In The Red Suit" on their
Seajam Recordings label. Most recently, Joe was the
music director of the highly acclaimed "Tonya Lee
Williams Gospel Jubilee" television special and
a CBC radio Words & Music Special called "East
Coasting". Joe is also the host of a weekly radio
show called "Joe Sealy's Duets" on Jazz FM
91.
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The Man In The Red Suit - Joe Sealy & Paul Novotny
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Guaranteed
to dish up a warm and cozy Christmas, pianist
Joe Sealy and bassist Paul Novotny have released
a swingin' new Yuletide CD. It's refreshingly
different than most because it is a collection
of seven brand-new, inspired originals plus two
traditional tunes with new up-beat arrangements.
The resulting sound is destined to enhance everyone's
Christmas spirit throughout December and all year
round.
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The Nearness Of You - Joe Sealy, Cindy Church, George Koller -
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The
Nearness Of You featuring Joe Sealy, Cindy Church & George Koller.
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Blue Jade - Joe Sealy & Paul Novotny - 1006
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Spun from the feelings of its creators Joe Sealy
& Paul Novotny, Blue Jade is a collection of
7 original songs and two standards that have come
together to give the listener a wide stylistic variety
of repertoire.
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Africville Suite - Joe Sealy - 1005
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Africville
has deep meaning in Joe Sealy's life. Established
in the early 1800's on the edge of Halifax, Nova
Scotia, Africville was the oldest urban black
community in Canada, and the birthplace of his
father. The Africville Suite is dedicated to the
memory of this once proud community, and to his
father.
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Dual Vision - Joe Sealy & Paul Novotny - 1002
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From
the swingin'est Clifford Brown blues ("Blues
Walk") to the Joe Sealy original "Africville"
this album will delight any listener's ears time
and time again, whether you are a lover of Cole
Porter standards like "Night and Day"
or more progressive jazz cuts like Wayne Shorter's
"Footprints".
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Double Entendre - Joe Sealy & Paul Novotny - 1001
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The
CD that started it all! From Cole Porter's popular
"Love for Sale" to Coltrane's "Some
Other Blues", this album defines the jazz duo
idiom.
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