From Camp Meeting (album) .. 2007.
Features: Bruce Hornsby (piano); Christian McBride (upright bass); Jack DeJohnette (drums).
Bruce said of the track: “I took a very dissonant six-bar bit from Charles Ives and used it as the basis for a blues. I ended up using the harmonic language of Ives for the basis of the blowing sections. I wanted to find paths that aren’t so well trod, it was a way to play the blues in an atypical fashion. I’m a big Ives and Barber fan, and I’m always interested in trying to find a place for that in my music.” (See full Berklee College of Music article).
Separately, Bruce told McClain Johnson, “There’s a song from that record called “Charlie, Woody and You.” It’s a play on an old Dizzy Gillespie tune, called “Woody and You.” I took a bit from a Charles Ives piece called “Study Number 22.” I put that into this blues scenario. We named it after Charles Ives, “Charlie, Woody and You.” I play that song song after “Talk of the Town.” I do that quite often, because they go together. They’re in the same key, and they are both blues tunes