Banjo
The banjo is a stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity to form a resonator. The membrane is typically circular,...
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Banjolin
The banjolin is a hybrid instrument, combining a banjo body with the neck and tuning of a mandolin. It is a soprano banjo. Played by: Ricky...
Barber Booty
Barber Booty is from Deep Sea Vents (album), 2024. From BruceHornsby.com: “Wispy dissonance yields suddenly to devilish strings and shouting horns, as though some faction...
Baritone Sax
The baritone sax is the lowest-pitched saxophone in common use — the bass, contrabass and subcontrabass saxophones are relatively uncommon. Like all saxophones, it is...
Barren Ground
Barren Ground features: Bruce Hornsby (piano, vocals, synthesizer); George Marinelli (guitar, backing vocals); John Molo (drums, percussion); Joe Puerta (bass, backing vocals); Shawn Colvin (backing...
Bass
Bruce Hornsby has had a number of world-class bass players on his records and in his touring band. Here’s a list of who played on...
Bass-clarinet
The bass clarinet is a larger and lower sounding relative of the clarinet. Like the clarinet, the bass clarinet is a single-reed instrument and is...
Bela Fleck
Béla Fleck is an acclaimed virtuoso banjo player, technically proficient playing bluegrass, jazz, classical, rock and various world music genres. Albums: Night on the Town...
Ben Helson
Ben Helson is a touring musician based out of Nashville, TN, working with Dierks Bentley, Ricky Skaggs, Rhonda Vincent, Maddie and Tae, Danielle Bradbery, Gene...
Beverly K. Baker
Beverly Kane Baker is former Principal Violist at the Virginia Symphony Orchestra. She studied Music Performance at Juilliard’s Albums: Harbor Lights (album) – viola on Fields...
Big Rumble
Big Rumble is a track from Bruce Hornsby’s Hot House release from 1995. Here’s a list of who played what, and a video of a...
Big Swing Face
Title track on Bruce Hornsby’s Big Swing Face (album) from 2002. Features: Bruce Hornsby (keyboards, vocals); Michael Baker (drums); David Bendeth (guitar, bass); Steve Kimock...
Big Swing Face (album)
Release date June 25 2002 Track listing Sticks and Stones Cartoons and Candy The Chill Big Swing Face This Too Shall Pass Try Anything Once Take Out...
Blake Mills
Blake Mills is a songwriter, guitarist, producer, and composer known for production and guitar work for Bob Dylan, Feist, Jack Johnson, Marcus Mumford, John Legend,...
Bobby Hornsby
Bobby Hornsby – Bruce’s older brother by two years – was in a Deadhead frat at the University of Virginia, Beta Theta Pi. He formed...
Bobby Read
Bobby Read is a gifted producer, composer and arranger, and runs Small World Audio from his home in Charlottesville, Virginia. You can read and hear...
Bongos
Bongos are an Afro-Cuban percussion instrument consisting of a pair of small open-bottomed hand drums of different sizes. Played by: Phil Collins on: Harbor Lights (album)...
Bonnie Bonaparte
Bonnie Raphael Bonaparte is a Trinidadian drummer who has performed with artists including Freddie Hubbard, Al Jarreau, Grover Washington, Jr., George Duke, The Jacksons, James...
Bonnie Raitt
Bonnie Raitt is a blues rock singer, guitarist and songwriter. She has released a series of critically acclaimed roots-influenced albums that incorporate elements of blues,...
Boogaloo
A genre of Latino popular music of especially New York in the 1960s influenced by soul and rhythm and blues. Played by: J.V. Collier on:...
Bouzouki
The bouzouki is a member of the long-necked lute family, with a round body with a flat top and a long neck with a fretted...
Brad Cook
Brad Cook is a Grammy-Nominated producer and songwriter working with Stting Cheese Incident, American Aquarium, Ani Difranco, Bon Iver and The Staves. Albums: Absolute Zero...
Branford Marsalis
Branford Marsalis is a saxophonist, composer, and bandleader. While primarily known for his work in jazz as the leader of the Branford Marsalis Quartet, he...
Bride of the Noisemakers
Release date May 2 2011 Track listing Disc 1 Cyclone Country Doctor Funhouse This Too Shall Pass Circus on the Moon Defenders of the Flag...
Bridgette Bryant
Bridgette Bryant is a vocalist who has worked with both Steve Wonder and Phil Collins. Albums: Night on the Town (album) – vocals on These Arms...