Jazz Articles about Bruce Hornsby

Bruce Hornsby: Red Hook Summer

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 31, 2012

È passato parecchio tempo dal 1986, quando la sua The Way It Is, ritratto ragionato dell'America anni '80, ha scalato le classifiche musicali americane e non. In questi anni, attraverso molteplici esperienze artistiche (da solista e con band come i The Range ed i The Noise Maker), Bruce Hornsby ha confermato il proprio ruolo di artista coraggioso e sempre capace di ritrovare se stesso oltre mode, correnti e generi. Polistrumentista e cantautore raffinato, collaboratore di grandi nomi come Bob Dylan, ...

Bruce Hornsby & the Noisemakers: Levitate

by Mark F. Turner
October 27, 2009

It is an oxymoronic but accurate statement that would describe Bruce Hornsby as a contemporary traditionalist. Traditionalist in the sense that his music is steeped in the heartland of America--a riverboat pianism with not only the blues, but also jazz and pop; a storyteller whose song vignettes portray the everyday lives of ordinary folk as heard in his many releases beginning with the multi-million selling debut album, The Way It Is (RCA, 1986). Yet he is a contemporary who is ...

Bruce Hornsby: The Master of Levitation

by Mark F. Turner
October 27, 2009

For more than 20 years, singer/songwriter, pianist/composer, and band-leader Bruce Hornsby, has proven to be a survivor in an ever changing music environment. From winning multiple awards including a Grammy for Best New Artist in 1987 for the multi-platinum album The Way It Is (RCA, 1986) with his band The Range, to dual releases in 2007 (on Sony/Legacy)—a foot-stomping bluegrass duo Ricky Skaggs & Bruce Hornsby and the swinging jazz trio outing Camp Meeting, with drummer Jack DeJohnette and bassist ...

Bruce Hornsby: Halcyon Days

by Lloyd N. Peterson Jr.
February 23, 2009

If Bill Evans would have grown up in the Deep South influenced by the gospel hymns of the Southern Baptist church, he just may have sounded like Bruce Hornsby. That would probably be a fair description considering that Hornsby knows no boundaries and often travels into the genres of pop, folk, jazz, classical, bluegrass and whatever else might inspire him. And though it's an approach that would never inspire record company executives, Hornsby has never catered to the whims of ...

Bruce Hornsby: Camp Meeting

by Troy Collins
September 8, 2007

Camp Meeting, pianist Bruce Hornsby's high profile jazz trio session with heavyweight bassist Christian McBride and iconic drummer Jack DeJohnette, may seem to have materialized out of thin air, but don't you believe them. Hornsby has been gradually building to this statement his whole career.

Last year's retrospective boxed set, Intersections (RCA), revealed the varied interests of a musician who has long charted his own path. As a touring member of the Grateful Dead and regular collaborator with ...

Bruce Hornsby: Camp Meeting

by Mark F. Turner
August 6, 2007

The funny thing about roots is that you don't know how they really look until you shake loose all of the dirt. Who knew that the “popular music" pianist/songwriter/singer, Bruce Hornsby, was a jazz musician at heart? Many may recall the Grammy Award winning artist from his 1986 platinum hit and album of the same title The Way It Is (RCA), marked by new folk sounds, social consciousness lyrics, and unorthodox yet glowing piano playing. Hornsby has sinced crossed the ...

Bruce Hornsby: Intersections [1985-2005]

by John Kelman
November 4, 2006

Bruce Hornsby Intersections [1985-2005] Legacy Recordings 2006

One often wonders what path an artist might have taken had he or she made different creative choices. While it would be presumptuous to compare the two in terms of sheer impact, it's certainly a possibility that had Keith Jarrett chosen to pursue a career as a pop singer/songwriter he may well have sounded like Bruce Hornsby. Certainly Hornsby's debt to Jarrett is acknowledged and self-evident, even ...