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ROSS WEITZNER/ASSOCIATED PRESSBruce Hornsby recently scored a film and is now developing a musical.

Percussion fans are invited to experience Drum Boogie, a free one-day music festival from noon to 7 p.m. Saturday on the lawn of Cornell Park in the Rondout Historic District of Kingston.

Percussed instruments may have been the original means of creative expression and communication, the musical beat tapping and pounding out the rhythms of human life itself.

Following a critically acclaimed box-set, a duet recording with Ricky Scaggs and a jazz trio album w/ Christian McBride & Jack DeJohnette , the beloved songwriter/pianist/vocalist Bruce Hornsby returns to the format that has brought his greatest commercial success.

The festival, which runs from October 23-26, will include headline acts such as sax player Pharoah Sanders, drummer Jack DeJohnette and stunning vocalist Kurt Elling.

It's been a while since Jack DeJohnette made a CD as a leader that fit so perfectly into the jazz genre as Music We Are , a straightforward recording of his trio with pianist Danilo Perez and bassist John Patitucci .

There is something pleasantly unassuming about John Surmana s stage demeanor, which is a bit of contrast to the conspicuously large baritone saxophone he has mastered.

Keith Jarrett is one of the most significant jazz pianists to emerge in the latter decades of the 20th century.

Brother's Keeper [Shanachie] California saxophonist Karl Denson grew up listening to R&B, funk, jazz, punk rock, pop and soul, in the process becoming convinced that forming a hybrid based on all of these styles was as natural as breathing the air.