BRUCE HORNSBY'S 'CAMP MEETING'

BRUCE HORNSBY'S 'CAMP MEETING'
Keyboardist, songwriter, and producer Bruce Hornsby, who earned a best new artist award in 1986, has recorded a straight-ahead jazz project. Titled Camp Meeting, the project is due August 7th on Sony/Legacy. Hornsby is joined on the set by bassist Christian McBride and veteran drummer Jack DeJohnette. The set includes new versions of classics by jazz greats John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk and Bud Powell, as well as a '70s composition by pianist Keith Jarrett. Hornsby also tackles a previously unrecorded Ornette Coleman composition titled "Questions And Answers." The set also includes two original compositions. While Hornsby says he has always been inspired by jazz musicians, the idea for Camp Meeting came five years ago when he joined guitarist Pat Metheny onstage to play a Miles Davis composition with the University of Virginia jazz band. "I played a piano intro and afterward Pat said that I should make a jazz record," stated Hornsby. "He felt I had developed my own way of playing the jazz repertoire. I wasn't ready to make the record at that time. Playing jazz is a lifetime study, and I knew that I had to do some serious shedding before I could undertake this project." Hornsby first gained national attention in 1986 with his band The Range. Their debut album The Way It Is and the title track single earned him the best new artist Grammy. Hornsby has since recorded several pop-oriented solo albums, and has also written tunes for others, notably "The End Of The Innocence" for Don Henley, which was recently re-recorded by India.Arie.