All About Jazz — The Gent Jazz Festival (July 7 - July 18) announces more names for the 2010 edition with Ornette Coleman, Pat Metheny Group, Gilberto Gil, Toots Thielemans, Kruder and Dorfmeister, Mariza, Kurt Elling, The Cinematic Orchestra and Stanley Clarke featu... more info

All About Jazz — Guitarist Tom Lagana Stakes His Claim on Second CD; Sax legend George Garzone Guests on SchematicScheduled for May release on Harvest Time RecordsFor the past decade, guitarist Tom Lagana has been quietly carving out a niche on the D.C.-Baltimore-Ann... more info

All About Jazz — By Pico I've been following Pat Metheny's career since the late seventies but it's only occurred to me very gradually what a major, important force in music he really is. Note I said "music" and not "jazz," because his breadth and depth of the unders... more info

Guardian Music — (Dark Energy Music)British guitarist, innovator and teacher Mark Wingfield often blends Pat Metheny's synclavier sound and the Norwegian Terje Rypdal's textures, and lately he's been developing composing skills. Any interpreting ensemble with Iain Ba... more info

All About Jazz — Two Seattle releases, Hadley Caliman's Straight Ahead and Gail Pettis' Here In The Moment, are currently tied in the #7 spot on the JazzWeek National Radio Airplay Chart with Pat Metheny's Orchestrion. 1 - STEVE HOBBS Vibes, Straight Up (Challenge) ... more info

The Telegraph — Pat Metheny's Orchestrion is a frustrating experience. Rating: * * more info

Guardian Music — 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... more info

All About Jazz — "A player of jaw-dropping technique and ferocious intensity with a darkly alluring musical vision, guitarist Bryan Baker is a leading light among a new breed of six-string renegades who are tearing it up with reckless abandon while pushing stylistic ... more info

All About Jazz — I came upon Pat Metheny's music late in my forties, when my fiance encouraged me to buy his Secret Story album. From that point, we (and subsequently, our two tiny children) avidly listened to and loved most of his music (except the Zero Tolerance f... more info

The Telegraph — Pat Metheny's mechanical orchestra, the Orchestrion, is delightful for a while, but eventually you need the human touch. Rating: * * * * more info