Camp Meeting

Performer: Bruce Hornsby
Engineer: Joe Ferla; Wayne Pooley
Producer: Bruce Hornsby; Melissa Smith
Distributor: Sony Music Distribution (

Notes: Personnel: Christian McBride (bass guitar); Jack DeJohnette (drums); Bruce Hornsby (piano). Those looking for the mellow adult contemporary rock of Bruce Hornsby's 1980s hits, be aware: CAMP MEETING is a straight-up contemporary jazz album, a piano trio set with bassist Christian McBride and legendary drummer Jack DeJohnette. Hornsby, a jazz pianist since his college days who fell into pop almost by accident, shows the influence of past masters like Bill Evans in his refined, restrained playing, and McBride and DeJohnette provide sure, able support. Split between originals and standards by Thelonius Monk, Bud Powell, and Keith Jarrett, CAMP MEETING is a solid piano-jazz set.

Down Beat (p.71) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[H]is voicing stays spacious, spelling woodsy open fifths, rustic seconds and suspensions that resolve to major thirds as he blows over the first few minutes of 'Solar'..." JazzTimes (p.71) - "The music stretches and contracts. It races, it gallops and it rumbles."

Possessed of a breezy, nonchalant style that belies his technical gifts, pianist Bruce Hornsby writes powerful songs from the heart that touch on several distinctly American traditions: pop, jazz, bluegrass, and '60s soul. He worked for a while as a studio player and songwriter, and had his first hit in 1986 with the stirring and philosophical "The Way It Is." Since then he has continued to release albums that honor his own muse rather than the marketplace, and has put together various backing bands to suit the mood and style of whatever genre he's working in. Hornsby also has a close musical relationship with the remaining members of the Grateful Dead, having toured as a temporary member in the early '90s and collaborated on off-shoot recordings and live shows.

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