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Bruce Randall Hornsby (born November 23, 1954) is an American singer-songwriter and pianist. His music draws from folk rock, jazz, bluegrass, folk, Southern rock,
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, jam band,
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musical traditions. Hornsby has won three
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, including a 1987 Grammy Award for Best New Artist with Bruce Hornsby and the Range, a 1990
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, and a 1994 Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance. Hornsby has worked with his touring band Bruce Hornsby and the Noisemakers, his bluegrass project with Ricky Skaggs, and as a session and guest musician. He was a touring member of the
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from September 1990 through March 1992, playing over 100 shows with the band. His 23rd album, Flicted'', was released in May 2022.


Early life and education

Bruce Randall Hornsby was born in Williamsburg, Virginia, son of Robert Stanley Hornsby (1920–1998), an attorney, real-estate developer and former musician, and Lois (née Saunier), a piano player and church community liaison who had a local middle school named after her. He has two siblings, Robert Saunier "Bobby" Hornsby, a realtor with Hornsby Realty and locally known musician, and
John Hornsby Jonathan Bigelow "John" Hornsby (born June 13, 1956, Williamsburg, Virginia) is an American composer, musician and actor. He is the brother of musician and composer Bruce Hornsby, and the two have collaborated often. Hornsby co-wrote seven of n ...
, an engineer with whom he has collaborated in songwriting. He was raised in the church of
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but did go to doctors and dentists as needed. He had a politically "liberal" upbringing. He is a cousin of actor David Hornsby. Hornsby graduated from James Blair High School in Williamsburg in 1973, where he played on the basketball team and was chosen by his senior class as most likely to succeed. He studied music at the University of Richmond for a year, at the
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for two semesters, and then at the University of Miami, where he graduated in 1977.


Career

In 1974, Hornsby's older brother Bobby, who attended the University of Virginia, formed the band "Bobby Hi-Test and the Octane Kids" to play fraternity parties, featuring Bruce on
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and vocals. The band, which is listed in ''Skeleton Key: A Dictionary for Deadheads'', performed covers of Allman Brothers Band, The Band, and predominantly
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songs. Bobby Hornsby's son, Robert Saunier Hornsby, was a recurring guest-guitarist with Hornsby's band and periodically toured with his uncle until his death on January 15, 2009, in a car accident near Crozet, Virginia at age 28. Following his graduation from the University of Miami in 1977, Hornsby returned to his hometown of Williamsburg, and played in local clubs and hotel bars. In 1980, he and his younger brother and songwriting partner
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moved to Los Angeles, where they spent three years writing for
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. Before moving back to his native
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, he also spent time in Los Angeles as a
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. In 1982, Hornsby joined the band
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for their last album '' Road Island'' and can be seen in the band's video for the album's single "How Can You Love Me". After Ambrosia disbanded, he and bassist Joe Puerta performed as members of the touring band for Sheena Easton. In 1984, Hornsby appeared in the music video for Easton's single '' Strut''.


The Range

In 1984, Hornsby formed Bruce Hornsby and the Range, who were signed to RCA Records in 1985. Besides Hornsby, Range members were
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( guitar,
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, violin), George Marinelli (guitars and backing vocals), former
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member Joe Puerta ( bass guitar and backing vocals), and
John Molo John Molo (born December 5, 1953, Bethesda, Maryland) is an American rock and jazz drummer and percussionist. He has played with a variety of bands, combos, and soloists. Best known for being the drummer for Bruce Hornsby and the Range, he has a ...
(
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). Hornsby's recording career started with the biggest hit he has had to date, " The Way It Is". It reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in December 1986. The song described aspects of
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, the American civil rights movement and institutional racism. It has since been sampled by at least six rap artists, including Tupac Shakur, E-40, and Mase. With the success of the single, the album '' The Way It Is'' received the
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of multi-platinum. It included " Mandolin Rain" (co-written, as many of Hornsby's early songs were, with his brother John), another top-five hit. "
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" peaked at number 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 in July 1987. Other tracks on the album helped establish what some labeled the "Virginia sound", a mixture of
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, jazz, and bluegrass. Bruce Hornsby and the Range won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 1987, beating out Glass Tiger, Nu Shooz, Simply Red, and
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. Hornsby and the Range's sound was distinctive for its use of
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in Hornsby's piano solos, a bright piano sound and an extensive use of
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s as background for Hornsby's solos. John Molo's drumbeats were often looped throughout the recorded versions of songs. They are typical double-time beats, which allowed Hornsby and the rest of the band to do more with their solos. Hornsby and the Range's second album, '' Scenes from the Southside'' (on which Peter Harris replaced Mansfield) was released in 1988. It included "Look Out Any Window" and " The Valley Road" which many critics noted for their "more spacious" musical arrangements, allowing for "more expressive" piano solos from Hornsby. It also included " Jacob's Ladder", which the Hornsby brothers wrote for musician friend Huey Lewis; Lewis's version became a number one hit from his album ''
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''. ''Scenes'' offered further slices of "Americana" and "small-town nostalgia", but it was the band's last album to perform well in the singles market. During the late 1980s and early 1990s, Hornsby worked extensively as a producer and sideman, producing a comeback album '' Anything Can Happen'' for
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. In 1987, Hornsby collaborated with Irish group Clannad, playing and lending vocals to their single " Something to Believe In". Hornsby also appears on the official music video release for the track. In 1989, Hornsby co-wrote and played piano on
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's hit " The End of the Innocence". In 1991, he played piano on
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's hit "
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". He also appeared on albums by Bob Dylan,
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, Crosby Stills and Nash,
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and Squeeze. He slowly began to introduce jazz and bluegrass elements into his music, first in live performance settings and later on studio work. In 1989, he first performed at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival. He also reworked his hit "The Valley Road" with the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band for their album '' Will the Circle Be Unbroken: Volume Two''. In February 1990, the song won Best Bluegrass Recording at the
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. In May 1990, he released '' A Night on the Town'', on which he teamed up with jazz musicians Wayne Shorter (tenor saxophone) and Charlie Haden (double bass) as well as bluegrass pioneer
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(banjo). A change in style became apparent as the album was much more rock and guitar driven, making use of
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's guitar work on several tracks, including prominently on the single "Across the River". In concert, Hornsby and the Range began to stretch out their songs, incorporating more and more "freewheeling musical exchanges". Critics praised the album for its production, its political relevance, and Hornsby's gestures toward expanding out of a strictly pop sound by incorporating jazz and bluegrass. Ultimately, though, the core "rock band" sound of the Range limited Hornsby's aspirations, and after a final three-week tour in 1991, Hornsby disbanded the Range to enter a new phase of his career. Drummer
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continued to perform regularly with Hornsby for another few years, although other members pursued separate musical endeavors. Following Hornsby's and Molo's involvement with The Other Ones, Molo left Hornsby to become the primary drummer with bass guitarist Phil Lesh and Friends.


Grateful Dead

In 1988, Hornsby first appeared on stage with the
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, a recurring collaboration that continued until the band's dissolution. Hornsby was frequently a guest before becoming a regular fixture in the touring lineup for the Grateful Dead a few years later. From 1988 until
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's death in 1995, Hornsby played more than 100 shows with the Grateful Dead. At some shows in 1988 and 1989, he joined the band as a special guest and played
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or synthesizer. Following the death of Grateful Dead keyboardist Brent Mydland in July 1990, Hornsby played piano (and frequently accordion) at many gigs. Mydland's place was filled in September 1990 by Vince Welnick, who became the sole keyboardist by March 1992, although Hornsby still sat in with the band on occasion. Hornsby's own music evolved significantly during this time period. Critics have suggested that the Dead's vibrant tradition of melding folk music and the
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with
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in "loose-knit expressions" and extended jamming "further pushed ornsbyoutside the confines of mainstream pop". Critics have also commented upon the close musical connection formed between Hornsby and Jerry Garcia, suggesting that Hornsby's particular style of jazz-fueled improvisation added to the band's repertoire and helped to revitalize and refocus Garcia's guitar solos in the band's sound. Hornsby's friendship with Garcia continued, both inside and outside the band, as the two "challenged" each other to expand their musicianship through several other album and live collaborations. Above all, Hornsby's musical versatility and ability to slip in and out of extended freeform jams won over longtime Grateful Dead fans. Since his first involvement with the Grateful Dead, Hornsby's live shows have drawn
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s and Hornsby has commented: "I've always liked the group of fans that we've drawn from the Grateful Dead time, because those fans are often adventurous music listeners". He has performed several of their songs at his concerts and as homages on studio and live albums, while Hornsby originals " The Valley Road" and "Stander on the Mountain" appeared several times in the Dead's setlists. Hornsby also co-performed the improvisation "Silver Apples of the Moon" for the Grateful Dead's ''
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''. Hornsby was the presenter when the Grateful Dead were inducted into the
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in 1994 and in 2005 he participated in "Comes a Time", a tribute concert to Jerry Garcia. He continues to work with Dead-related projects, such as
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's Ratdog,
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's solo projects. He performed as part of The Other Ones in 1998 and 2000, and on occasion sat in with
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. Hornsby continues to be involved in the Grateful Dead and Furthur community. He played at the All Good Music Festival in 2012 with Bob Weir on rhythm guitar. In mid-2013, Hornsby performed with Grateful Dead-influenced bluegrass group
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. Hornsby reunited with surviving members of the Grateful Dead along with Trey Anastasio from
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and Jeff Chimenti at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California, and later at Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois, in July 2015.


Solo

Hornsby released his first solo album, '' Harbor Lights'', in 1993. The record showcased him in a more jazz-oriented setting and featured an all-star lineup, including Pat Metheny,
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,
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and
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. Hornsby secured his third Grammy in 1993 for Best Pop Instrumental for "Barcelona Mona" (composed with
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for the Barcelona Olympics). In 1995, '' Hot House'' was released, its cover art featuring an imagined jam session between bluegrass legend Bill Monroe and jazz legend Charlie Parker. Hornsby expanded into the jazz sound from ''Harbor Lights'', this time reintroducing elements of bluegrass from ''A Night on the Town'' and his earlier collaborations. "Walk in the Sun" reached 54th on the Billboard Hot 100. During this time period, "even his concerts conveyed a looser, more playful mood, and Hornsby began taking requests from the audience". Hornsby's concerts became "departure points" for his album compositions, which would be blended with and reworked into "lengthy spontaneous medleys". Both in terms of audience requests and in terms of spontaneous on-stage decisions, Hornsby's performances became opportunities for him to challenge himself by trying to "find a way to seamlessly thread these seemingly disparate elements together". Hornsby next worked with several Grateful Dead reformation projects, including several Furthur Festivals and The Other Ones, which resulted in the release of a live album, '' The Strange Remain''. As part of The Other Ones, Hornsby performed Grateful Dead tunes " Jack Straw" and " Sugaree" (which features Hornsby on lead vocal, in Jerry Garcia's absence), as well as Hornsby-originals "White-Wheeled Limousine" and "Rainbow's Cadillac". Hornsby dropped out of The Other Ones in 2002. In 1998, three years after ''Hot House'', Hornsby released a double album, '' Spirit Trail''. Featuring a decidedly goofy picture of his uncle on the cover, the collection blended instrumental tracks with the story-telling,
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, jazz, and other musical forms Hornsby had delved into over his career. The album considered "very Southern" themes with "songs about race, religion, judgment and tolerance" and "struggles with these issues". An example is "Sneaking Up on Boo Radley", which referenced the character from
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's
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-winning novel '' To Kill a Mockingbird''. Throughout the sequence of '' Harbor Lights'', ''Hot House'', and ''Spirit Trail'', Hornsby's piano playing steadily gained further complexity, taking on a more varied array of musical styles and incorporating more and more difficult techniques, as evidenced by his two-hand-independence on ''Spirit Trail'' "King of the Hill". During this same span of solo album years, Hornsby made several mini-tours playing solo piano gigs for the first time in his career. The shows allowed Hornsby limitless possibilities for seguing songs into other songs, often blurring lines between classical compositions, jazz standards, traditional bluegrass, folk, and
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tunes, Grateful Dead songs, as well as reworkings of Hornsby originals. Hornsby reflected on these periods of intensive solo performances, stating that the solo tours helped him "recommit imselfto the study of piano" and "take isplaying to a whole new level", explorations and improvisations that would not be possible in a band setting. In August 2014, Hornsby released his first entirely live solo album, ''Solo Concerts''. In April 2019, his 21st album, ''Absolute Zero'', was released. It features collaborations with Justin Vernon and Sean Carey of Bon Iver,
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The Noisemakers

Hornsby's touring band lineup underwent extensive changes between 1998 and 2000, with longtime drummer
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joining former
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bassist
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in his band Phil Lesh & Friends. A set of twenty consecutive shows performed by Hornsby and his band at Yoshi's Jazz Club in Oakland, California included a lot of spontaneity and taking requests from the audience, a form that he continues at live shows to this day. As Hornsby experimented with a different sound, ushering in frequent collaborations with such musicians as
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on guitar and Bobby Read on heavily effects-driven electronic woodwinds, a new band, dubbed the Noisemakers, took shape. In 2000, Hornsby chronicled this journey with a compilation live album entitled '' Here Come the Noise Makers'', and did extensive touring with his new band featuring John "J.T." Thomas (
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), Bobby Read ( saxophones, woodwinds,
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), J.V. Collier (
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), Doug Derryberry ( guitar,
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), and several different drummers before Sonny Emory took over full-time. In 2002, Hornsby released '' Big Swing Face''. The album was Hornsby's most experimental effort to date. It was the only album on which Hornsby barely plays any piano and relied heavily on post-electronica beats, drum loops, Pro Tools editing, and dense synthesizer arrangements. ''Big Swing Face'' received mixed reviews, ranging from "a new and improved Bruce Hornsby" to being called one of the "strangest records of 2002". In 2004, after 19 successful years on RCA Records, Hornsby signed with
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and returned to a more acoustic, piano-driven sound on his Columbia Records debut album, '' Halcyon Days'', released in June 2004. Guests included
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. Throughout tours following the album's release, both with the Noisemakers and in solo performances, Hornsby continued to demonstrate his desire to "grow" as a singer and performer and to expand the instrumental possibilities of the piano in various genres. In July 2006, Hornsby released a four-CD/DVD box set titled ''
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''. The discs are thematically broken into three categories: "Top 90 Time", "Solo Piano, Tribute Records, Country-Bluegrass, Movie Scores", and "By Request (Favorites and Best Songs)". A full third of the music is previously unreleased; many familiar tracks are presented as unreleased live versions rather than the original studio recordings, and the majority of the remaining tracks are from single
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s, collaborations or tribute albums, and movie soundtracks. One song, "Song H", a new composition, was nominated for Best Pop Instrumental in 2007 at the
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. In 2007, Hornsby began more regularly playing classical music: at a concert in
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, during Hornsby's improvisational session in "The Way It Is", he began playing
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's Goldberg Variations along with the drums. In a different city, he played five straight Goldberg Variations over the drum intro of "Gonna Be Some Changes Made". On September 15, 2009, Bruce Hornsby and the Noisemakers released their fourth album, '' Levitate'' to mixed reviews; it included new solo material with several songs co-written with Chip DiMatteo for the Broadway play ''
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''. In May 2011, the band released a live album, ''Bride of the Noisemakers''. On June 17, 2016, Bruce Hornsby and the Noisemakers released their sixth album and fourth studio album, ''Rehab Reunion''. Hornsby only plays the dulcimer on the album and does not play piano. The album was also Hornsby's first release on 429 Records. Like on many of his previous releases, ''Rehab Reunion'' features collaborations with guest artists. Justin Vernon of Bon Iver sings background vocals on "Over the Rise".
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duets with Hornsby on "Celestial Railroad". Also noteworthy is a folk version of "The Valley Road", originally a hit in 1988 with Hornsby's first backing band, the Range.


Skaggs & Hornsby/The Bruce Hornsby Trio

In March 2007, Hornsby teamed with bluegrass player Ricky Skaggs to produce a bluegrass album, '' Ricky Skaggs & Bruce Hornsby'', followed by a tour. In 2000, the pair had collaborated on "Darlin' Cory", a track on the ''Big Mon'' Bill Monroe
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. ''Ricky Skaggs & Bruce Hornsby'', featuring the duo backed by Skaggs's band Kentucky Thunder, combined bluegrass, traditional country music, jazzy piano and a splash of humor on a spectrum of songs from the traditional to new compositions such as the opening track, "The Dreaded Spoon", a humorous tale of a youthful ice cream heist. The pair also reinvented Hornsby's hit "Mandolin Rain" as a minor key acoustic ballad and give his cautionary tale of backwoods violence, "A Night on the Town", a treatment highlighting the "
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n storytelling tradition that was always at the song's heart". The album ended with a cover of Rick James's
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hit " Super Freak" in a bluegrass arrangement. The album peaked at number one on the ''
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'' Bluegrass Albums list; it was on the charts for 52 weeks. With the album, Hornsby disproved the notion that the piano is not compatible with "string-oriented" bluegrass. The duo released the live album ''Cluck Ol' Hen'' in September 2013. Concurrently with the bluegrass project, Hornsby recorded a jazz album, '' Camp Meeting'' with Christian McBride (
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(
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). Alongside original compositions by Hornsby, the trio delivered newly reharmonized versions of tunes by John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk and
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, a previously unrecorded
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work ("Questions and Answers") and an early
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composition ("Death and the Flower"). The trio made a series of appearances in the summer of 2007, including the
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, the Newport Jazz Festival and at the
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, Bill Kreutzmann and
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reunited along with Hornsby, Mike Gordon (of
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and the Rhythm Devils) and Warren Haynes to play two sets, including Dead classics, at a post-inauguration fundraising party for
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. Hornsby wrote songs for ''
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'', a Broadway Musical; one song from this project, a playful biographical tune about real-estate tycoon Donald Trump titled "The Don of Dons", was played often at Hornsby's solo piano performances in early 2007. In 2009, he composed the score for Spike Lee's ESPN documentary, ''
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'', about
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star
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and his MVP season. Hornsby invested in Williamsburg area radio station "The Tide" WTYD 92.3 FM. He has endowed the Bruce Hornsby Creative American Music Program at the
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of University of Miami. Hornsby played himself in a cameo role in the Robin Williams movie '' World's Greatest Dad'', in which Williams' character is a Bruce Hornsby fan.


Additional collaborations

In 2014, Hornsby toured selected dates with Pat Metheny Unity Group. In 2016, Hornsby performed on a track, "Black Muddy River", along with indie folk band (and Justin Vernon's former band) DeYarmond Edison on ''Day of the Dead'', a Grateful Dead
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, benefiting the
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, an international charity dedicated to raising funds and awareness for HIV and
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. Hornsby performed the song alongside Vernon that same year in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Hornsby performed alongside Vernon at Coachella in 2017, performing "I Can't Make You Love Me;" the performance also featured Jenny Lewis. Hornsby has composed and performed for many projects with filmmaker Spike Lee, including end-title songs for two films, '' Clockers'' (1995) with
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and '' Bamboozled'' (2001). He contributed music for '' If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise'' (2010), '' Old Boy'' (2013) and '' Chi-Raq'' (2015), and full film scores for Lee's
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documentary for ESPN: ''
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'' (2009), '' Red Hook Summer'' (2012), '' Da Sweet Blood of Jesus'' (2015), and Lee's film for the NBA 2K16 video game (2015). He scored Lee's Netflix production '' She's Gotta Have It'' (2017, 2019). Hornsby wrote and performed new music for Lee's film '' BlacKkKlansman'' (2018). in 1993, Lee directed the video for Hornsby's song "Talk Of The Town".


Equipment

Hornsby uses a
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. He bought the piano in Zurich,
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, while on a solo show tour in Europe in 1995. With the Range and up until 1995, he used a
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concert grand piano. He currently uses a Korg M1 synthesizer. With the Range, Hornsby used an Oberheim OB-X synthesizer. Hornsby selected ten Model B Steinway Grands to be featured in its Limited Edition Signature Piano Series, each one personalized with his signature. Hornsby owns three Model D Steinway Grands. For his 2016 album ''Rehab Reunion'', he played Appalachian dulcimer made by BlueLion.


Personal life

Hornsby and his wife Kathy have twin sons, born 1992: Russell, who ran for the Oregon Ducks track and field team at the University of Oregon, and
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, transferred to Louisiana State University and played for LSU from
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. They were named after musicians
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and
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, respectively. Hornsby is a regular basketball player and an avid fan of the sport. As such, he can frequently be seen at college basketball games throughout Virginia. Hornsby stated that he beat
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in one-on-one basketball three games in a row after helping him get out of jail. He is also a friend of Chicago White Sox manager Tony La Russa and attends games in St. Louis. Their friendship led to La Russa introducing Hornsby to jazz bassist Christian McBride, which then led to the formation of The Bruce Hornsby Trio (along with drummer
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) and their first album, '' Camp Meeting''.


Awards and nominations

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Discography

* '' The Way It Is'' (1986) * '' Scenes from the Southside'' (1988) * '' A Night on the Town'' (1990) * '' Harbor Lights'' (1993) * '' Hot House'' (1995) * '' Spirit Trail'' (1998) * '' Here Come the Noisemakers'' (2000) (live album) * '' Big Swing Face'' (2002) * '' Halcyon Days'' (2004) * ''
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'' (2004) (compilation) * '' Camp Meeting'' (2007) * '' Levitate'' (2009) * ''
Bride of the Noisemakers ''Bride of the Noisemakers'' is the fifth album—and second live album—by Bruce Hornsby with his touring band the Noisemakers. The double album, released in 2011, consists of 25 songs recorded between 2007 and 2009. The album debuted on ''Bill ...
'' (2011) (live album) * '' Red Hook Summer'' (2012) * ''Solo Concerts'' (2014) (live album) * '' Rehab Reunion'' (2016) * ''
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'' (2019) * ''Non-Secure Connection'' (2020) * Flicted'' (2022)


References


External links

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Bruuuce.com
Bruce Hornsby fan website
Bruce Hornsby setlist databaseInterview with Bruce Hornsby
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