Bruce Hornsby (with Christian McBride & Jack DeJohnette): Questions and Answers

I have long suspected that Bruce Hornsby would take a trip to jazz land, probably since his Harbor Lights release. All of those huge, open piano chords just pointed to this day. With the high-octane pair of Christian McBride and Jack DeJohnette at his side, Hornsby proves that this is no vanity project. Taking on this previously unrecorded Ornette composition, Hornsby drives through the typically knotty melodic twists and turns while McBride & DeJohnette swing with just the right amount of reckless abandon. The trio manages to perfectly capture that trait so often found in Coleman's music: the sense that the aural glue might not be able to hold the notes together.