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Joyce Spencer
Joyce is a saxophonist, flutist, singer, songwriter and composer of traditional & contemporary jazz, R&B, funk, and more.
About Me
Joyce Spencer is an award-winning saxophonist, flutist, and vocalist from Dallas, Texas, who
covers the gamut of musical influence, style, and genre from traditional to contemporary jazz and
classical to R&B, funk, fusion, blues, pop, and Gospel/Christian. The mixing and blending of
musical styles in her upbringing are definitely her forte and an asset to writing music and
entertainment. Whether it's upbeat music, sultry smooth jazz, or ballads, Joyce provides
sensational musical entertainment on saxophone (soprano, alto, and tenor), flute, and vocals that
cater to the fans or venue.
Her educational background includes a bachelor's degree in instrumental music education where
she also studied saxophone and flute, classical and jazz, theater, and radio and TV broadcasting.
After a 20-year career in corporate America, Joyce returned to music with sheer determination as
an independent artist. She single-handedly composed and produced her first album, Sweet
Dreams, and has since released several more projects including Many Colors, It's Christmas
Time, and other single releases like Solace, Cherish, and Sax-O-Phunk.
She has graced the stage of many music festivals, concerts, church, and corporate events in the
United States as a lead artist and with other artists/bands like Yarbrough & Peoples and Jazz in
Pink, but radio stations are playing her music all over the world. She has been honored with
awards and special recognition such as the GHP Radio Music Award Best Groove Sax, NAACP
Music Award (Garland, TX), Black Women in Jazz Saxophonist of the Year, Sound Fusion Radio
Song of the Week, Sassy Radio Top 20, Radio Indie Alliance Top 10, SmoothJazz.com top 30,
Grammy consideration on a collaboration with David McLorren, WSRN-DB Jazz Oasis Top 10 and
Number one, Radio Indie Alliance Top 10, The Radio Indie International Network Top 10 chart, and
Radio Indie International Network Artist of the Week. Joyce also received several special features in
other media magazine/news formats like Coffee Talk Jazz (front cover), Basile Weekly, Trinity River
Blues Society, The Debbie Burke Jazz Blog, Woodshed Jazz Magazine, and Amazing Smooth and
Jazz Radio.
Other notable awards and nominations are Coffee Talk Jazz Radio Heart & Soul Instrumental
Award, ASCAPLUS Awards Panel Recognition, and the Akedemia Award for best funk song (Many
Colors). In other categories, she was also nominated for the South Florida Gospel Music Awards,
Best Female Jazz Flutist, and Best Producer/Arranger/Composer by Black Women in Jazz and Fine
Arts. Recently, Joyce was also honored to make the front cover of the prestigious Coffee Talk
Magazine, and her hometown newspaper, Basile Weekly.
When Joyce is not performing or writing/composing music, she is hard at work recording her next
project, collaborating with other independent artists, and co-hosting the GHP Radio live stream
broadcast, “The Indie Live Spot”.
My Jazz Story
I love jazz because it's an amazing evolutionary form of music that keeps progressing while maintaining a sense of originality, creativity, and improvisatory wonder. Growing up a couple of hours from New Orleans jazz was always at my back door seeping through the cracks and into my inner ear and inner consciousness with Motown knocking and rocking for attention as well. The first time I realized jazz had been progressing was when my big brother brought home several jazz albums, but the two albums that totally impressed me and touched my soul were The Jazz Crusaders and Weather Report (Teen Town). To me this was spicier than my Louisiana hot sauce!