BRUCE HORNSBY: Absolute Zero (Thirty Tigers)

THE pianist and singer’s latest music sounds nothing like The Way It Is, his vintage 1986 single about economic strife and race relations in America. Heartland rock has given way to abstract jazz with too many rarefied touches. But Absolute Zero boasts some enterprising guests, with female UK trio The Staves, chamber sextet yMusic and Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon adding clout to his bright, spacious piano.