• Music Downloads

    There are two methods of downloading. One is to just click on the file and it will try to launch your player after downloading. It may appear as if nothing is happening - Firefox will start and buffer a player, Internet Explorer will take longer. If you have a fast Internet connection, this may work fine. Otherwise, I would recommend downloading the clip or the full version first and then playing it after it downloads. (Not all tunes have clips - I'm doing away with that going forward...)

    To play directly, just click on the clip or full link next to the song title. To fully download first, RIGHT CLICK on the desired clip or full version, and select “Save Target (or link) As” so that you can save the file to your desired location on your hard drive.  (If you have a Mac with a one button mouse, press the Control key first and then click.)

    The most recent recordings are here from fusionhouse! (www.fusionhouseband.com)

     

    2009 fusionhouse demo CD - numbered to play in order in your playlist!

      Song Title

    Size / Time

      Band

    Composer

      Notes

    01 My Chicken Heart

    5MB

    4:32

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    Rob Sparre

    2009 Demo Recording

    Rob’s first composition out of college. Inspired by Chick Corea, who had a new album “My Spanish Heart”.

    Rob - keys, Cooke Harvey - bass, Dave Bozenhard - guitar, Vince Marinelli - soprano sax, John Cassidy - drums

    02 Goodbye Crepe

    5.6MB

    4:55

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    Rob Sparre

    2009 Demo Recording

    For the French restaurant Crepe Chalet  in Wilmington , DE (where Rob was chef) closed in 1981

    Listen to how the Mini-Moog synthesizer line double with the soprano sax on the melody

    Rob - keys, Cooke Harvey - bass, Dave Bozenhard - guitar, Vince Marinelli - soprano sax, John Cassidy - drums

    03 Nite Club

    6.2MB

    5:28

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    Gary Willis

    2009 Demo Recording

    From the awesome band Tribal Tech - bassist Gary Willis' smokin' bass oriented composition

    Rob - keys, Cooke Harvey - bass, Dave Bozenhard - guitar, John Cassidy - drums

    04 Bright Size Life

    5.2MB

    4:35

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    Pat Metheny

    2009 Demo Recording

    Acoustic oriented straight ahead guitar melody from Pat Metheny

    Rob - keys, Cooke Harvey - bass, Dave Bozenhard - guitar, John Cassidy - drums

    05 Red Barron

    5MB

    4:32

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    Billy Cobham

    2009 Demo Recording

    From drummer Billy Cobham's album "Spectrum" - this blues tune has attitude!

    Rob - keys, Cooke Harvey - bass, Dave Bozenhard - guitar, Vince Marinelli - tenor sax, John Cassidy - drums

    06 Capt. Senor Mouse

    5MB

    4:32

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    Chick Corea

    2009 Demo Recording

    One of the great Chick Corea and early Return to Forever classics

    Rob - keys, Cooke Harvey - bass, Dave Bozenhard - guitar, Vince Marinelli - soprano sax, John Cassidy - drums

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Other recordings:

     

    CentrePeace, Kong, and Chop Shop

     

    Fun clip! Check out bad boys in the restaurant kitchen doin’ the Greenery Groan

     

    Some recordings have some hiss and background noise. Sorry about that. These were recorded in the early 1980’s and we did not have digital equipment, or much more than an 8 track for most of it. Sometimes just a live microphone into a cassette. This is really how the band sounded! Except on a very few tunes, these were mostly live takes and very little overdubbing.

     

    Some tunes are not ready for download yet, so if the link is not available, then I haven’t uploaded the file yet. I am trying to remix some of the old analog tapes, which I don’t even have in my possession – so that may take awhile. In the meantime, these will do…

     

    Song Title

    Clip /

    Time

    Full Version

    / Time

     

    Band

     

    Composer

     

    Notes

    Cursory Blunder

    1.2MB

    1:49

    4.5MB

    6:34

    CentrePeace

    Rob Sparre

    1983 Vocal Pop – Steeley Dan-ish

    Song about a girl getting married to some dufus before she knows what she’s doing, especially when I was available!

    Geri Smith on vocal (Rob’s ex-wife); Rob - keys and vocals, Nick Bucci - guitar and vocals

    Cooke Harvey – bass, Tom Palmer – drums. Keyboard detail: Fender Rhoades Electric Piano, Mini-Moog

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Goodbye Crepe

    1.2MB

    1:45

    3.5MB

    4:59

    CentrePeace

    Rob Sparre

    1982 Instrumental – Chick Corea style

    For the French restaurant Crepe Chalet  in Wilmington, DE (where Rob was chef) closed in 1981

    Listen to how the Mini-Moog synthesizer line double with the soprano sax on the melody

    Rob - keys, Nick Bucci – guitar, Cooke Harvey – bass, Tom Palmer – drums, Checko D’Avila – soprano sax,

    Freddie Matos – congas. Keyboard detail: Fender Rhoades Electric Piano, Mini-Moog

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Newborn Song

    1.1MB

    1:37

    4.1MB

    5:57

    CentrePeace

    Nick Bucci

    ~1982 Instrumental – great lines

    Listen to Nick’s acoustic guitar moving back and forth between left and right channels – suh-weet!

    Rob - keys, Nick Bucci – electric and acoustic guitar, Cooke Harvey – bass, Tom Palmer – drums, Freddie Matos – congas

    Keyboard detail: Fender Rhoades Electric Piano, Mini-Moog

     

     

     

     

     

     

    My Chicken Heart

    Fast - Centrepeace Live in Philly

     

    6.7MB

    7:14

    CentrePeace

    Rob Sparre

    1980 live – forget where…

    My Chicken Heart

    Solo 4 track

     

    4.5MB

    5:58

     

     

    This solo version is my first 4 track

    Recorded in 05-1981

    Rob’s first composition out of college. Inspired by Chick Corea, who had a new album “My Spanish Heart”

    The 1980 Centrepeace version is live in Philly in Society Hill - Not sure who all the players are, definitely Rob, Cooke, Nick, I think Rick Rossi, I think the drummer is Glenn Vernon

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Final Fling

    1.2MB

    1:46

    4.9MB

    6:58

    CentrePeace

    Rob Sparre

    1979 – 2nd composition out of college

    Written to showcase Rick Rossi on soprano sax, a journey through slightly different styles of jazz as this was my

    “Final Fling” with jazz before I thought I’d better write some pop music to make money!

    Rob – keys, Nick Bucci – guitar, Cooke Harvey – bass, Tom Palmer – drums, Kerry Robertson – soprano sax

    Keyboard detail: Yamaha PF15 Electric Piano, 2 Roland Juno-60 Synthesizers

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Leave the Shells

    1.1MB

    1:37

    3.5MB

    5:03

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    Nick Bucci

    ~1980 Instrumental – tricky stuff

    Nick’s first composition to the band – sentiment about just leaving the shells behind, like peanut shells or sumfin’

    Rob – keys, Nick Bucci – guitar, Cooke Harvey – bass, Tom Palmer – drums

    Keyboard detail: PF15 Electric Piano, 2 Roland Juno-60 Synthesizers, Mini-Moog

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Greenery Groan

    1.1MB

    1:35

    4.6MB

    6:33

    CentrePeace

    Rob Sparre

    ~1983 Instrumental – knee slapper

    Check out the clip on this one – it’s fun!!

    Rob worked in a lot of restaurant kitchens. This one was called The Greenery Too, and there was a raunchy groan that

    the kitchen staff would let out when a cute waitress would come through that became known as the Greenery Groan.

    The original groan was coined by Jeff Sidel, but Rob groans on this recording. Inspiration from Ken Kreider of course!

    This tune has a lot of tricky lines in it and we didn’t pull them off very well in this recording. I wish we could re-record

    this tune because the potential was nowhere near reached. The last minute is a lot of fun – which is the clip.

    Rob – keys, Nick Bucci – guitar, Cooke Harvey – bass, Tom Palmer – drums

    Keyboard detail: PF15 Electric Piano, 2 Roland Juno-60 Synthesizers, Mini-Moog

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Katie

    1.1MB

    1:36

    5MB

    7:13

    Kong

    Rob Sparre

    1989 – Live at Buggy Tavern

    Rick Rossi took a jam that Rob wrote for a CentrePeace reunion of sorts, just a jam session really. It was Jam #7.

    So Rick recorded it in LA and sent it To Rob when his daughter was born. (This is not that recording.)

    This is a different recording by one of Rob’s fusion bands 1989. Just two mics into a cassette in a smoky bar in Wilmington.

    Written for 5 string bass, so the low bass notes go down to a low C, a major 3rd below a normal bass.

    The melody is sometimes obscured, but it’s the best recording I have.

    Rob – keys, Tommy Alderson – guitar, Brian Hayes – bass, Ritchie Rubini - drums

    Keyboard detail: Roland D-70, Yamaha DX-7

     

     

     

     

     

     

    It’s All In

    1.3MB

    1:51

    3.6MB

    5:07

    CentrePeace

    Rob Sparre

    1983 – part quick riffs – part raunch

    It’s all in there! Just a little sneaky thing that I hammered out on the low end of the keyboard. We ended up recording two

    guitar solos by Nick and couldn’t figure out which one to use, so we mixed them together. Nick did NOT hear the other

    solo track when he was recording the other solo, but they are eerily together in places – then it gets crazy for a moment.

    This still has a lot of my Chick Corea compositional line style.

    Rob – keys, Nick Bucci – guitar, Cooke Harvey – bass, Tom Palmer – drums

    Keyboard detail: PF15 Electric Piano, 2 Roland Juno-60 Synthesizers, Mini-Moog

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Peace at Last

    1.2MB

    1:42

    4.4MB

    6:17

    CentrePeace

    Rob Sparre

    1980 – Early stuff!

    One of our earliest recordings we did ourselves with an old 8 track machine late one night in a music store. This tune was

    A showcase of three instruments getting the melody and passing it off in three styles, then the solos are based on those

    styles and pass to each other again. The title bears some explanation: We had gone through several drummers and thought we had

    finally found the solid team, hence “CentrePeace at last”, but the drummer we had at this time turned out to be a whacko,

    Throwing sticks and being violent during a gig when we had reporters there to see us.

    Rob – keys, Nick Bucci – guitar, Cooke Harvey – bass, John Di Giovanni – drums, Rick Rossi – flute

    Keyboard detail: Fender Rhoades Electric Piano, Mini-Moog

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Don’t Be Afraid

    1.1MB

    1:31

    3.3MB

    4:46

    CentrePeace

    Geri Smith

    1980 70’s style vocal pop - live

    70’s style vocal pop, when Geri Smith first joined the band – recorded with 2 microphones into a cassette at rehearsal

    Rob – keys, Geri Smith – vocal, Nick Bucci – guitar, Cooke Harvey – bass, John Di Giovanni – drums

    Keyboard detail: Fender Rhoades Electric Piano, Mini-Moog

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Katrina’s Tune

    0.9MB

    1:23

    3.9MB

    5:36

    CentrePeace

    Cooke Harvey

    ~1982

    Song for a friend of Cooke’s

    Rob – keys, Nick Bucci – guitar, Cooke Harvey – bass, Tom Palmer – drums

    Keyboard detail: Fender Rhoades Electric Piano, Mini-Moog

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Sultry Girl

     

    4.2MB

    6:06

    CentrePeace

    Rob Sparre

    1980 live Deer Park – 3 horn arrgmt

    Recorded with 2 microphones into a cassette at the Deer Park in Newark, DE

    This was the kind of major horn arrangement Rob really wanted to write, but it was difficult to get the players together.

    This gig had ONE rehearsal with the horns, then we played it! It’s not polished, but it has lots of heart!

    Rob – keys,  Nick Bucci – guitar, Cooke Harvey – bass, John Di Giovanni – drums,

    Horns: Rick Rossi – Tenor Sax, Pete De Ceasar – Trumpet, Mark Henderson - Trombone

    Keyboard detail: Fender Rhoades Electric Piano, Mini-Moog

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Ginsoaker

    1.1MB

    1:42

    6MB

    8:36

    CentrePeace

    Rob Sparre

    1980 live Deer Park – 3 horn arrgmt

    Full Title is: You Ain’t No Ginsoaker Honey, Baby, But I Got a Feelin’ You Sure Could Hook a Million

    Recorded with 2 microphones into a cassette at the Deer Park in Newark, DE

    Lot’s of crazy lines, part of the tune is in 5/4 with a classic jazz-rock big band feel

    This gig had ONE rehearsal with the horns, then we played it! It’s not polished, but it has lots of heart!

    Rob – keys,  Nick Bucci – guitar, Cooke Harvey – bass, John Di Giovanni – drums,

    Horns: Rick Rossi – Tenor Sax, Pete De Ceasar – Trumpet, Mark Hamilton - Trombone

    Keyboard detail: Fender Rhoades Electric Piano, Mini-Moog

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Breathe

     

    4.3MB

    6:12

    CentrePeace

    Nick Bucci

    ~1980 instrumental – sax feature

    Heaving and listing with Rick Rossi’s expressive sax, one of Nick’s earliest compositions for the band.

    Rob – keys, Nick Bucci – guitar, Cooke Harvey – bass, John Di Giovanni – drums, Rick Rossi – Alto Sax

    Keyboard detail: Fender Rhoades Electric Piano, Mini-Moog  wind noise effects

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Senor Mouse

     

    9MB

    9:41

    CentrePeace

    Chick Corea

    May 1983 – live Deer Park

    This tune is fast – and difficult! Pretty good performance

    Rob – piano, Nick Bucci – guitar, Cooke Harvey – bass, Tom Palmer – drums, Checko D’Avila – soprano sax, Fred Matos - congas

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Peach and Green

     

    5.5MB

    5:52

    CentrePeace

    Cooke Harvey

    April 1980 live Down Under

    Nice straight ahead composition by Cooke

    Rob – keys, Nick Bucci – guitar, Cooke Harvey – bass, John DiGiovanni – drums, Rick Rossi - flute

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Lucky Strike

     

    2.7MB

    2:53

    CentrePeace

    Rick Rossi

    Oct 1980 – live Crepe Chalet

    Very fast straight ahead jazz – trumpet and sax melody feature

    Rob – trumpet, Rick Rossi – tenor, Nick Bucci – guitar, Cooke Harvey – bass, John DiGiovanni – drums

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Moose the Mooch

     

    4.2MB

    4:34

    CentrePeace

    Jazz Standard

    April 1979 – live Deer Park

    Very fast straight ahead jazz – trumpet and sax melody feature

    Rob – trumpet, Rick Rossi – tenor, Nick Bucci – guitar, Cooke Harvey – bass, John DiGiovanni – drums

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Sugar

     

    6.7MB

    7:12

    CentrePeace

    Jazz Standard

    Sept 1980 – Flight Deck

    Jazz standard by Stanley Turrentine; Alphie Moss guest singer; Rob worte the horn arrangement

    Listen to the great trading 4’s at the end between Alphie, Nick, and Rick

    Rob – piano, Rick Rossi – tenor, Nick Bucci – guitar, Cooke Harvey – bass, John DiGiovanni – drums

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Flying in a Blue Dream

     

    4.4MB

    4:42

    Kong

    Joe Satriani

    Nov 1991 – live Buggy Tavern

    Tommy nails the Satriani sound!

    Rob – keys, Tom Alderson – guitar, Brian Hayes – bass, Ritchie Rubini – drums

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Good Question

     

    4.4MB

    4:44

    Kong

    Brian Hayes

    Nov 1991 – live Buggy Tavern

    Original composition by bass player Brian

    Rob – keys, Tom Alderson – guitar, Brian Hayes – bass, Ritchie Rubini – drums

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Led Zepplin Medley

     

    7.7MB

    8:26

    Kong

    Arr Brian Hayes

    Nov 1991 – live Buggy Tavern

    Led Zepplin Medley arranged by bass player Brian

    Rob – keys, Tom Alderson – guitar, Brian Hayes – bass, Ritchie Rubini – drums

     

     

     

     

     

     

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