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Bruce Hornsby supports two albums
Bruce Hornsby 's tour schedule is filling up well into 2008 as the veteran singer/songwriter/pianist supports two album releases this year.
In March, Hornsby and bluegrass legend Ricky Skaggs released an eponymous 11-song set that features Skaggs' band, Kentucky Thunder. It includes Hornsby originals--such as a new version of "Mandolin Rain"--as well as traditional arrangements, plus a tongue-in-cheek, hillbilly spin on Rick James' "Super Freak."
Hornsby also has his first full-length instrumental jazz album due in August, according to Billboard. Bassist Christian McBride and drummer Jack DeJohnette join the pianist on "Camp Meeting," which mixes original compositions with covers of songs by John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Thelonius Monk, Keith Jarrett and Bud Powell. The set will also feature a previously unrecorded work by Ornette Coleman, the magazine reported
This month, Hornsby is doing a few solo dates and several more with his band, The Noisemakers. He'll promote his instrumental album in August, playing a few shows with McBride and DeJohnette, including the Aug. 11 JVC Jazz Festival in Newport, RI. October will find Hornsby playing a coast-to-coast run with Scaggs, and then continuing that trek in January, March, April and May. Details are listed below.
Hornsby, a three-time Grammy winner, has sold more than 10 million records since his multi-platinum, 1986 debut, "The Way It Is," according to his bio. Last year, he released a four-CD, one-DVD box set, "Intersections 1985-2005," which comprises 53 audio tracks, 26 of which were previously unreleased, and more than 20 video clips that were previously unreleased.
