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Bruce Hornsby: Red Hook Summer: Music from the Original Motion Picture
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In recent years, Spike Lee has relied on jazz trumpeter Terence Blanchard to score his music-infused films. For Lee’s indie drama Red Hook Summer, a growing-up story set in his native Brooklyn, he tried a different approach, tapping piano man Bruce Hornsby to create a collection of Southern-accented solo piano pieces, often skewing to the somber. Some tunes are stately and reverent, some are reflective, and some—such numbers as “Gospel Camp” and “Camp Variation”—are lively ditties openly drawing from church themes and harmonies. Hornsby adds appealing singing to the mix on the joyfully pounding, R&B-infused “Spirit Climbing” and closes the set with the earnest, reverent “Hymn in C,” one of several compositions that sound like lost, soul-saving hymns of yore.
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