The JamBase Podcast: Bruce Hornsby

By Staff JamBase Jun 9, 2022 • 9:26 am PDT

Episode 129 of The JamBase Podcast, a husband or wife of the Osiris Media Network, characteristics the return of Bruce Hornsby. JamBase’s Scott Bernstein yet again interviewed the renowned pianist/composer about his new album, ‘Flicted, and significantly extra.

Bernstein spoke with Hornsby around a online video phone a handful of weeks back again from his property studio in Virginia. The pair begun by conversing about covers as ‘Flicted features Hornsby’s arrangement of Chuck Berry’s “Too A lot Monkey Business,” the first time he’s involved a include on a single of his studio albums. Hornsby explained why he completely reworks tunes and strays considerably from the first when he addresses a tune and gave examples of his will take on Elton John’s “Madman Across The Water” and Dinosaur Jr.’s “Feel The Pain” from earlier tribute albums.

Scotty and Bruce then discussed setlists. Hornsby’s initial look on The JamBase Podcast arrived in 2018, when he talked “The Art Of The Setlist” with Bernstein at City Winery in New York Metropolis. Bruce proceeds to go with no a pre-planned setlist each and every night and has audience users set requests on parts of paper that litter his phase. Hornsby experienced not too long ago added multi-instrumentalist John Mailander to his band, The Noisemakers, when the pair final talked and Bruce up to date listeners on how Mailander has hit into the group like a glove.

Discuss then turned to ‘Flicted, which completes a trilogy started out with 2019’s Absolute Zero that ongoing with 2020’s Non-Safe Relationship. Hornsby revealed two extremely disparate aspects in his musical daily life arrived together above the past couple of a long time. First, he’s been looking back at movie cues he wrote for director Spike Lee and producing entire tunes from them. Furthermore, Bruce has been operating with the most up-to-date era of musical acts after Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon opened a doorway into the indie globe for him. ‘Flicted, like Complete Zero and Non-Protected Link, functions a quantity of tracks created out of film cues and visitor appearances from as Hornsby said, “talented artists intrigued in operating with grandpa.” The album is out now on Zappo Productions/Thirty Tigers.

Hornsby went on to speak about contributors to ‘Flicted like Blake Mills, Danielle Haim, Ezra Koenig from Vampire Weekend, Z. Berg and Ethan Grushka. Bruce also detailed his relationship with ‘Flicted co-producer Tony Berg and how producer Ariel Rechtshaid assisted out on a couple of tracks. Supplemental topics mentioned were being a new album Hornsby is doing the job on with yMusic, a undertaking Greensky Bluegrass might be most likely included in and his appreciation for EDM.

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