1. Questions And Answers
2. Charlie, Woody And You
3. Solar
4. Death And The Flower
5. Camp Meeting
6. Giant Steps
7. Celia
8. We’ll Be Together Again
9. Stacked Mary Possum
10. Straight, No Chaser
11. Un Poco Loco/Chant Song
Total time: 1:04:32
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Camp Meeting
Bruce Hornsby/Christian McBride/Jack DeJohnette
Legacy
Five years after Pat Metheny asked him when he was going to make a jazz album, Hornsby makes good with an 11-track instrumental set. Fans knew he had it in him; apparently it just took some prodding and the right circumstances – and “some serious shedding” in preparation for the project, as he says in his album’s press release.
From his first album with the Range in 1986, the pianist displayed a penchant for extended, jazzlike solos. “Mandolin Rain,” “Every Little Kiss,” “On the Western Skyline” and “The Way It Is” sparkle with mini-workouts at the keys.
Now, more than two decades later and on the heels of a bluegrass collaboration with Ricky Scaggs, Hornsby finds himself in a trio brilliantly interpreting compositions by Ornette Coleman (the previously unrecorded “Questions and Answers”), Charles Ives, Miles Davis, Keith Jarrett, John Coltrane, Bud Powell, Frankie Laine and Thelonious Monk.
Speaking of Ives, the title cut (one of four Hornsby originals) shares its name with the great American composer’s Pulitzer Prize-winning third symphony. Ives also is co-credited with Hornsby on “Charlie, Woody and You.” And it’s a little-known fact that the introduction to “Every Little Kiss” comes from “The Alcotts,” the third movement of Ives’ Concord Sonata.
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