Bruce Hornsby - The End Of The Innocence

This is from the "A Night On The Town" video...the late Joe Henderson on sax. This video was produced in conjuction with the CD of the same name, and reportedly Capitol spent huge dollars renting a soundstage in L.A. and flying in music critics from around the world for the event. And although either "A Night On The Town" or "Across The River" could have, maybe should have, been huge hits, they weren't. However, this video remains, and the lighting and audio are of great quality, even if the director was overly enamored with trucking/arcing the front camera to death at times, partially missing some important solos in the process - if you have good musicians, it's not necessary to make every shot move to keep things more "interesing" - take a lesson from Stanley Dorfman of the BBC. Jerry Garcia's playing on two tracks on this DVD, recorded not long before his death, is simply amazing - the solo on "Across The River" is the single best summary of Garcia's playing I've ever seen (I confess to not being a genuine DeadHead), the chemistry between Hornsby and Garcia is obvious. Shawn Colvin also does an excellent duet of "Lost Soul" with Hornsby here, and Bela Fleck appears as well. Finally available on DVD - buy it...you will play it to death. A link to "The End Of The Innocence" with the great Joe Henderson is below.

Bruce Hornsby - The End Of The Innocence