Brazilian Mood music for W&L Theater's upcoming performance of Euridyce. I played and recorded all of the instruments (no MIDI this time!) with the help of Ableton Live, Collings D-1, Yamaha BB-3000S, Meinl Artist Series (Luis Conte) Studio Shaker, an older Musser xylophone, Late 70s Gretsch drums, Universal Audio 2-610, 2 Empirical Labs EL8M Distressors, Mytek Stereo96 ADC, Digidesign MBox 2, RCA 77-DX and 44-BX, Mojave Audio MA-100 and a Sony MDR-7509HD.

• Brazilian Mood Music for Euridyce (2.7MB MP3)

Ableton Live makes it fun to slice funk jams.

• Funk Loose (4.20MB MP3)

This composition has been around in one form or another for a long time. Pete Meriwether helped write a bit of the head one day in the practice room. Bob Bowers is here on the saxes.

• Not All There (8.54MB MP3)

Can't go wrong with this famous Grant sample. After jamming over the groove for a few months at Pizza Perfect the guitar part solidified into a melody.

• Lookin' Up (3.86MB MP3)

Experimenting with texture samples and Impulse in Ableton Live. Guitar is acoustic with various effects in Ableton like Grain Delay, etc. Multiple versions of Steinberg Groove Agent are driving the majority of percussion sounds.

• Pizza Comin (7.28MB MP3)

• You Go Too Fast (10.83MB MP3)

• 083004-oneMusic Fminor House (1.56MB MP3)

• 082904-oneMusic B4 minuter (1.42MB MP3)

I played every track into the computer along with live guitar and trumpets. Organ, drums, percussion, bass, alto sax, and trombone sounds are generated by VSTi plug-ins that I created with Nuendo and a USB controller. I am utilzing the plug-ins like this:

• Groove Agent for the drum patterns
• DFH Superior Drummer for the kit
• DFH Superior Percussion for the tambourine
• Trilogy bass instrument
• acoustic trumpet stacks recorded with EV RE-20 plugged directly into audio interface
• alto sax and trombone from Edirol's Orchestral
• Native Instruments' B4 organ
• IK Multimedia's Amplitube for electric guitar plugged directly into audio interface

• Sting Fan Club (jam with Edirol's strings and flute scratches)
• Way Back (long jam utilzing Trilogy's awesome upright sound - goes way out at the end)
• Island Power (I wrote this on the DDBB bus late one night)

Guitar-based groove using Steinberg's Nuendo, Steinberg's Groove Agent, IK Multimedia AmpliTube, Spectrasonics Trilogy, Waves Plugins, Edirol's PCR-50, M-Audio's Firewire 410, Yamaha Pacifica, and the Roland RD-600

• Big Drums, Blues Guitar (experimenting with AmpliTube, I came up with this thang)

Bob Bowers is Nashville's best kept secret with his dominance over any woodwind instrument including saxes, clarinets, flutes, bassoons, etc. Bob joins me here on flute during our first Redmon Connection Mondays (EDIT: before Bob's new dayjob put a stop to that) recording session using Steinberg's Nuendo, Steinberg's Groove Agent, Steinberg's The Grand, Waves Plugins, Edirol's PCR-50, M-Audio's Firewire 410, Sennheiser's HD-580, Fostex' T-20, and an EV RE20

• Caravan (my own off-Latin arrangement for the Transcendental Crayon Ensemble)
• Corcovado (I'm getting some help from the drums, Bob is so amazing!)

Song beds I made for Julie Huntington's French class to rap over using Steinberg's Nuendo, Steinberg's Groove Agent, Steinberg's The Grand, Waves Plugins, Novation's V-Station, Native Instruments' B4, Edirol's PCR-50, M-Audio's Firewire 410, Line6's Pod, Sennheiser's HD-580, and the Roland RD-600

• track 1 (bass & drums quickie)
• track 2 (bass & industrial drums quickie)
• track 3 (fun organ groove)
• track 4 (piano, guitar, and bass smoove one)

Song beds, loops, and songs I've made using Steinberg's Nuendo, Steinberg's Groove Agent, Steinberg's The Grand, Waves Plugins, Novation's V-Station, Native Instruments' B4, Edirol's PCR-50, M-Audio's Firewire 410, Line6's Pod, Sennheiser's HD-580, and the Roland RD-600

• One-Four Funk Messin (enjoying new sounds)

The Dirty Dozen Brass Band and nomadicMobile are proud to announce the latest release from the DDBB - produced and engineered by Chris Grainger and Graham Spice.

"We Got Robbed! -Live in New Orleans-" was designed to be a limited edition keepsake for the band's longtime fans to celebrate the band's 25-year anniversary. This is the band's 15th album and their first live album in 15 years! We are psyched to be a part of one of our favorite band's history!

The album was recorded during the 2003 Jazz and Heritage Festival in New Orleans. The DDBB were in the middle of an 11-night residency at Twiropa when nomadicMobile caught up with them for 5 nights of live recording!

Download a few of our favorite snippets from the album in MP3 format:
	· Charlie Dozen - the total package (1.8MB MP3) · Unclean Waters - Jamie & Big Sam on fire (1.2MB MP3) · Use Your Brain - Roger, the bari-poppin' daddy (0.5MB MP3) · Feet Can't Fail Me Now - sing along now (0.7MB MP3)

See tons of pictures of the events surrounding the Dirty Dozen live recording and JazzFest 2003 at Twiropa here .

Song beds, loops, and songs I've made using Sonic Foundry's Acid, Ableton Live, and Syntrillium's Cool Edit Pro

• Ain't No Ghetto (loop just waiting for you to sing)
• Mingus (song bed with prominent bari sax sample)
• uhHuh (heavy piano, very Cinematic-y)
• Smoothie (long tripped-out song bed, drums effected real-time)
• Full Love (fun song using Bill Laswell's sample library)
• Gagging on a Lollie (Stevie-ish song bed)
• Sure (groove with great piano line)
• Sure2 (check out filtered analog kick around 0:36)
• Workin' It (Maldon's Stonehendge apartment inspiration)
• 111402 (heavy effects on trumpet and guitar)
• 111401 (loop then song bed with Wurly & bass)

Rough Mix for Baby Stout

• Sophia's Song

Rebecca Stout - vocals; Paul - bass, guitar; Derek Green - drums; Graham Spice - trumpet, keyboard, mixing engineering

Rough Mixes for Frank Reynolds

• Pleading the Fifths
• The Loneliest Punk

Frank Reynolds - vocals, bass;, Pete Meriwether - drums; Graham Spice - guitar, keyboard

The Regulars

• My Lie, My Love
• Already Sorry
• Livin' Alone
• Live Without Me

Andy Becky - vocals, guitar; Joey - vocals, guitar; Katie - vocals; Pete Meriwether - drums; Jon Grant - bass; Graham Spice - keyboard, trumpet; Chris Grainger - engineer

Rebecca Stout
I just came across these Rebecca Stout tracks that I played trumpet and electric piano on. This was my first paying session out of college and man was I psyched - check out the rhythm section! These tracks were only released on the Treason Records Sampler Vol. 1 as far as I know.

1. The Liberator (3.86MB MP3)
2. Dog (5.64MB MP3)

Rebecca Stout - vocals; Victor Wooten - acoustic bass; Reggie Wooten - guitar; J.D. Blair (The Groove Regulator) - drums; Graham Spice - trumpet, electric piano; Rob DeHart - electric upright bass; Art Ruangtip - trombone; Derek Green - shakers; Neal Cappellino - engineer at Poppi Studios

Rebecca Stout & The Circus Inebrius
The Empress

1. Empress
2. Icarus' Revenge
3. Dog
4. Under Blue
5. The Liberator
6. What Little Girls Are Made Of

Rebecca Stout - vocals; Dan Immel - double bass; Josh Rouse - guitar, trombone; Sharon Gilchrist - double bass, vocals; Derek Green - drums; Graham Spice - trumpet, keyboard, whistle; Grey Garner - engineer at Velvet Studios

The Belmont University New Music Ensemble (BUNME)
directed by Don Byrd

1. Head Doctor (Toby Leonard)
2. Jubilee (John Gladwell)
3. Lazy Daisy (Takashi Nagai)
4. Santo Canto (Gonzalo Rubalcaba)
5. Slow Valentine (Rich Toomey)

Toby Leonard - mandolin, guitar, bass; Rich Toomey - guitar; Takashi Nagai - guitar; Daev Seezen - drums; Graham Spice - trumpet, keyboards, guitar; April Scott - piano; Joe "Raspberry" Maloney - bass; Scott Alexander - violin, guitar; Patrick "Rev. JP Funk" Dolan - alto sax; John Sharp - coiled magnetic piece of wood; many others...

Dr. John "Leroy Banana" Thompson makes a special guest appearance on track #2

Here are some old recordings I copied off cassette with a little tweak in REAPER. They were all recorded in Studio A at Belmont University in 1994 although I think that some of Dan's tune was recorded in the stairway of the Massey Bldg.

• Maybe Baby That's What Love Is For by Bruce Tierney and Graham Spice
• Dan Bostick - Piano Solo - Furious Sketch Pt. 1 + 2 with Jimmy Jernigan on drum! Don't miss Dan in Part 2.
• Sample in a Jar - the first studio recording of a group loosely called The Guy Smiley Blues Exchange. Hilarious double guitar solo at the end. Jordan Birch (vox); Howard Connell (dr); Dan Immel (bs); Matt Nolen (pno); Graham Spice (gtr).
• Behind the Waterfall of Tears by Bruce Tierney and Graham Spice