A brief collaboration between composers James Brady (@jbradymusic) and Trevor Hamer (@facemeltingsolo).

Smells Like Rain

Churchill Jazz Band
Music by Harold Arlen, with lyrics by Johnny Mercer.
Recorded at Performing Arts Technology Studios, Guildford March 2011.  Lead engineer: Dan Cole.
Produced by James Brady and Dan Cole.


Come Rain Or Come Shine

Churchill Jazz Band
Music by Herbie Hancock, Bennie Maupin, Paul Jackson and Harvey Mason.
Arranged by James Brady.
Recorded at Performing Arts Technology Studios, Guildford March 2011.Dan Cole, lead engineer.
Produced by James Brady and Dan Cole.

Chameleon

Val Brug by Nikos Ziarkas  - dedicated to Oberon King

Rob Milne - bass clarinet
Sam Warner - flugelhorn
Nikos Ziarkas - guitar/electronics
Gaspar Sena - drums
Thodoris Ziarkas - doublebass

Recorded live at St. Ethelburgas, London on 23rd January '16.
Mixed & Mastered by Nikos Ziarkas

Val Brug live @ St.Ethelburgas

An extract from an arrangement of Duke Ellington's "It Don't Mean A Thing" Arranged for 11-piece band... Segues into "Sir Duke" by Stevie Wonder

It Don't Mean A Thing

A stinger I wrote for Nintendo that they didn't use. I liked this one!

Nintendo stinger rejected :(

Have You Seen Them Cakes

In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning

Ya Gotta Try Harder

A 'household piece' by James Brady.
Inspired by an idea from Matthew Shlomowitz (https://www.shlom.com/), I created this piece for a single household during lockdown, consisting of:

Mina (vocals)
Sylvester (trombone)
and their parents:
Uli (recorder)
Rex (double bass)

Other than Rex, none of the players is a professional musician. 

The text is constructed from a shopping list the family had from early in the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown, reflecting their everyday needs as a family.

I Went To The Shop And I Bought..

This submission for the @musicweeklies #Ocean challenge consists of 5 instances of Alchemy Gentle Sine Bells. I pictured ice sheets ringle and bounce in the water, like we see it here in the north, dancing on the waves.
 
And a little homage to what the Sugar Plum Fairy meant to me when I was 7 years old and danced ballet in my first performance (and last) to that segment of the Nutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky). The piece to this day stays on my near and dear list.

Sugar Plum ice

Composer, arranger and improvising trumpeter James Brady. Music which crosses boundaries of genre, steeped in 21st century classical, jazz, Latin American and Afro-Cuban influences.

Smells Like Rain

James Brady - Composer and Performer