Reuters - Dec 11, 2009
Warning: The following facts about musician Bruce Hornsby may, or may not, be true. He is writing a Broadway musical featuring overnight package deliverymen; he dressed in colonial costume to taunt tourists...
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Drummer Jack DeJohnette had some fun with his jazz musician friends by asking them to guess who s playing piano with him on a fast-paced version of John Coltrane s Giant Steps. I had people saying...
More »Reuters - Aug 5, 2007
Bruce Hornsby refuses to be counted among the pop stars trying on jazz for size. I can see why someone may want to make an album that goes down easy and why a record company would want to put it out...
More »E! Online - Dec 7, 2006
Here s the complete list of nominees for the 49th Annual Grammy Awards. The awards will be presented Feb. 11 in Los Angeles: Album Of The Year Taking the Long Way, Dixie ChicksSt. Elsewhere, Gnarls...
More »AP - Aug 16, 2005
Vassar Clements, a fiddle virtuoso and A-list studio musician who played with Paul McCartney and an array of others, died at his home Tuesday after a battle with lung cancer, his daughter said. Clements...
More »Reuters - May 16, 2005
If there s one thing pianist-singer Ben Folds detests, it s poseurs in the music industry who care more about how they look on television than about honing their craft. I hate a performance that is...
More »Reuters - May 16, 2005
If there s one thing pianist-singer Ben Folds detests, it s poseurs in the music industry who care more about how they look on TV than about honing their craft. I hate a performance that is about the...
More »Reuters - Apr 25, 2005
Patti Smith), former Phish bassist Mike Gordon, Huey Lewis and Mavis Staples have joined the performance lineup for the fifth annual Jammy Awards, honoring the best in improvisational music. Other late...
More »E! Online - Apr 13, 2005
To paraphrase the old Chuck Berry tune, bye-bye, Johnnie. Johnnie Johnson, the rhythm-and-blues piano wizard whose pioneering partnership with Berry produced such indelible tracks as Roll over Beethoven...
More »AP - Mar 24, 2005
Alt-rocker Ryan Adams and mellow piano man Bruce Hornsby will immerse themselves in the jam band scene at the fifth annual Jammy awards, which will also feature Medeski Martin & Wood, Les Claypool...
More »Reuters - Oct 27, 2004
A newly recorded cover of the Beatles I ll Be Back graces a hits package from Grammy-winning singer Shawn Colvin due in stores Nov. 23. Polaroids: A Greatest Hits Collection (Columbia) will also arrive...
More »Reuters - Sep 11, 2004
After several years spent exploring the roots and branches of bluegrass music with his recordings, Ricky Skaggs is satisfying his critics with an album of all new material. Brand New Strings is due...
More »E! Online - Aug 25, 2004
Ashlee Simpson has shown no mercy on the charts. First, her Autobiography destroyed the sales milestones of her more famous sister, Jessica. Now, Ashlee s kicked her former boyfriend to the curb....
More »AP - Aug 18, 2004
Back in the 1980s, when Bruce Hornsby couldn t flip on the radio without hearing one of his tunes, the singer-songwriter failed to impress one listener: himself. It was kind of a drag, Hornsby recalled...
More »AP - Jun 11, 2004
Ray Charles is being remembered as a musical innovator who blended genres of music to create a new style. Charles died on Thursday of acute liver disease at age 73. Ray Charles had a string of hits...
More »AP - Jun 10, 2004
Quotes about singer Ray Charles , upon his death at 73 Thursday: Ray Charles was a man we particularly admired both as a friend and as an artist. We had a great time recently reminiscing together and...
More »AP - Apr 6, 2004
Paul Atkinson, who played guitar in the British invasion band The Zombies and later became a successful music industry executive who signed such acts as ABBA, died Thursday, said his publicist Susan Clary...
More »Reuters - Nov 21, 2003
Bruce Springsteen will stage a trio of holiday concerts next month in his adopted hometown of Asbury Park, N.J. The Dec. 5-7 shows at the Asbury Park Convention Hall will benefit several local charities...
More »Reuters - Nov 10, 2003
The way it is: BMG Heritage has set a Jan. 13 release for two sets celebrating the career of pianist Bruce Hornsby . The CD Greatest Radio Hits is Hornsby s first greatest-hits package. His first DVD...
More »USRN - Mar 28, 2001
(3/28/01, 10 a.m. ET) -- It appears that the Other Ones--the ad hoc Grateful Dead spin-off group formed by singer-guitarist Bob Weir, percussionist Mickey Hart, and singer-keyboardist Bruce Hornsby--are...
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