Pat Metheny: The Orchestrion Project

Pat Metheny

Like the magicians of yore who invented chess playing automata that could defeat grandmasters, Metheny's Orchestrion is a creation of...

Reviewed in issue February/2013

Brad Mehldau Trio: Where Do You Start

Jeff Ballard | Larry Grenadier | Brad Mehldau

As the Keith Jarrett of his generation, the acme of jazz piano for Generation X-ers just as the savant from...

Reviewed in issue October/2012

Pat Metheny Unity Band: Unity Band

Ben Williams | Chris Potter | Antonio Sánchez | Pat Metheny

No-one noodles his way up his own archtop quite so self-delightingly as Metheny. So hurrah for him for re-energising himself...

Reviewed in issue July/2012

Caetano Veloso and David Byrne: Live at Carnegie Hall

Caetano Veloso | Mauro Refosco | Jacques Morelenbaum | David Byrne

Recorded back in 2004 when Caetano Veloso curated a week-long series of concerts at New York's Carnegie Hall, the press...

Reviewed in issue May/2012

Album Interview: Dr John: Locked Down

Max Weissenfeldt | Brian Olive | McCrary Sisters | Leon Michels | Dan Auerbach | Nick Movshon | Dr John aka ‘Mac’ Rebennack

Every generation since the 1960s has discovered Dr John and taken him to their heart. It's led to some wacky...

Reviewed in issue May/2012

Carolina Chocolate Drops: Leaving Eden

While the only jazz connection is Brad Mehldau's label, this Grammy-award winning bluegrass band plays with a raw, rootsy mostly...

Reviewed in issue April/2012

Brad Mehldau Trio: Ode

Jeff Ballard | Larry Grenadier | Brad Mehldau

Nothing if not prolific and following quickly on from last year's superlative solo Live In Marciac set this trio studio...

Reviewed in issue April/2012

Brad Mehldau Trio: The Art of the Trio: Recordings 1996-2001

Jorge Rossy | Larry Grenadier | Brad Mehldau

Career retrospectives such as this usually come much later in an artist's life, and this seven CD box set includes...

Reviewed in issue March/2012

Brad Mehldau, Kevin Hays: Modern Music

Kevin Hays | Brad Mehldau

There has been no shortage of Brad Mehldau albums in recent times – the solo Live in Marciac, Highway Rider...

Reviewed in issue October/2011

Steve Reich: WTC 9/11/Mallet Quartet/Dance Patterns

Garry Kvistad | Nurit Tilles | Frank Kassara | Edmund Niemann | Thad Wheeler | Kronos Quartet | Steve Reich | Mallet Quartet | S Percussion | James Preiss

Steve Reich celebrates his 75th birthday with one of his most impressive and emotionally affecting compositions. ‘WTC 9/11’ reflects upon...

Reviewed in issue October/2011