Introduction to Online Lessons with James Brady
I've made a short video introduction to my online teaching, which includes some tips for getting set up to make your lessons most effective.
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James Brady
- Aug 6, 2021
- 2 min
New single out now!
It seems rare these days to find a commercial organisation actually doing something meaningful to help independent artists like myself -...
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James Brady
- May 7, 2021
- 3 min
Ambient Electronic EP "In Search of Dopamine" for pre-order NOW
"So sonically compelling. What a great suite this is." - Rex Horan, bassist and composer with Ben Watt, Neil Cowley Trio & Laura Marling...
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James Brady
- Aug 3, 2020
- 1 min
ELCB Digital #3: I Want A Big Butter And Egg Man
Time for another of the pieces put together by me and members of East London Community Band during the UK Lockdown. This is I Want A Big...
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James Brady
- Jul 27, 2020
- 1 min
ELCB Digital #2: Reimagining "Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home" for lockdown
Here's the 2nd piece of work from the ELCB Digital project, in which I co-led 11 weeks on online rehearsals and activities for around 60...
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James Brady
- Jul 24, 2020
- 1 min
Blast from the past: Churchill Jazz Band
I've just been going back over some old recordings and was reminded of one I made all the way back in 2011, with the big band I was...
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James Brady
- Jul 22, 2020
- 1 min
Vesperados EP OUT NOW
Today is a big day for me - I've finally released my first EP! Focusing on music inspired by jazz and Latin America, the 5 tracks of...
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James Brady
- Jul 22, 2020
- 1 min
ELCB Digital #1: Quarantine Samba
Early in the current COVID-19 crisis, I wrote this short piece for voice and body percussion in the Brazilian Samba style, and took it...
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James Brady
- May 21, 2020
- 4 min
A compositional manifesto (of sorts)
For the last few months in my compositions, I've been thinking about how two things: How to write pieces which encourage performers to...
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James Brady
- Apr 3, 2020
- 1 min
Culture in Quarantine Diagrams
This diagram sums up where the pieces will exist in a continuum between total improvisation (unscripted), totally notated (fully...
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James Brady
- Mar 16, 2020
- 2 min
A to-do list for shut-down
My creative plans for if everything gets shut down due to COVID-19.
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James Brady
- Feb 13, 2020
- 2 min
Arrangements on sale at SMP Press
Lots of arrangements for brass groups and flexible jazz ensemble now available on SMP Press.
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James Brady
- Feb 5, 2020
- 2 min
Chronicle 19 Jan - 4 Feb
What I've been up to 19 Jan - 4 Feb 2020: composing, collaboratings, leading workshops.
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James Brady
- Jan 28, 2020
- 1 min
Now taking lesson bookings
Now taking bookings for 1-to-1 tuition in trumpet, trombone, jazz improvisation and music theory, in Walthamstow, East London.
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James Brady
- Jan 21, 2020
- 1 min
DARKMANS [work for Jazz Orchestra/Big Band]
A new video of my piece for Jazz Orchestra/Big Band, DARKMANS, live from the Vortex Jazz Club, London.
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James Brady
- Jan 19, 2020
- 4 min
Stolen Moments - intention in soloing
How can past recordings help us to explore our own improvising language better? In this post we'll look at some models from Stolen Moments.
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James Brady
- Jan 18, 2020
- 1 min
Chronicle 13-18 Jan
In the last week, I’ve been… Adding violin parts to my big band pieces DARKMANS and Four Scenes on L’homme armé to be played by John...
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James Brady
- Jan 13, 2020
- 1 min
Chronicle: 6-13 Jan 2020
What I've been doing/listening to/reading 6-13 Jan 2020.
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James Brady
- Jan 7, 2020
- 1 min
In the beginning...
As I write this, I'm 30 (and a half), and I've been involved in music more or less full-time since my teens. Along the way I've met and...
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