Pat Metheny | Jazz review

Barbican, LondonPat Metheny's new ­Orchestrion project, in which he's the sole flesh-and-blood soloist amid a clamorous band of robot instruments, sounds on record so much like a mingling of the guitar star's classic albums of the past 20 years as to ­suggest he did this monumentally eccentric thing simply because he could.Live, it's a different matter. Metheny ran a two-and-a-half-hour show in front of a clacking, beating and ­chiming ­curiosity shop of drums, cymbals, marimbas, key...

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