Hornsby’s spent the last decade scoring Spike Lee Joints, and cinematic cues enlivened 2019’s Absolute Zero as well as its quick follow-up Non-Secure Connection. (He also, legend has it, beat Allen Iverson in a game of one-on-one.) Since the 1991 breakup of his first band the Range, he’s played keys for the Grateful Dead, played jazz with Jack DeJohnette and bluegrass with Ricky Skaggs, and released a dulcimer album.
He cracks jokes, shakes his head in bewilderment at days gone by, and-judging by his broad roster of famous collaborators-is equally comfortable lending favors as calling them in. Few contemporary music men have embraced the role of American troubadour like Bruce Hornsby.
