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In recent years, Spike Lee has relied on jazz trumpeter Terence Blanchard to score his music-infused films. For Lee’s indie drama Red Hook Summer, a growing-up story set in his native Brooklyn, he tried a different approach, tapping piano man Bruce Hornsby to create a collection of Southern-accented solo piano pieces, often skewing to the somber. Some tunes are stately and reverent, some are reflective, and some – such numbers as “Gospel Camp” and “Camp Variation” – are lively ditties openly drawing from church themes and harmonies. Hornsby adds appealing singing to the mix on the joyfully pounding, R&B-infused “Spirit Climbing” and closes the set with the earnest, reverent “Hymn in C,” one of several compositions that sound like lost, soul-saving hymns of yore.