Guardian Music — (Naim)Stuart McCallum is the accomplished Manchester-based guitarist with globetrotting ambient soundscapers Cinematic Orchestra. This is his third solo venture, an aptly named collage of samples from his own compositions mixed with synthesised orche... more info

Guardian Music — (33Jazz) John Law, a classically trained pianist and composer, keeps his own counsel on the UK jazz scene, pursuing a distinctive agenda that has moved over the years from contemporary-classical/improv explorations, through more lyrical music with hi... more info

Guardian Music — (Jazzland) Conversations between improvising jazz players and computer musicians have often left the former struggling to find space within the machine's strutting rigidities, or the latter clacking hopefully along behind jazz's athleticism. This dia... more info

Guardian Music — (Ironic Records)Annette Peacock, the avant garde American composer, collaborator with Salvador Dalí, friend of Albert Ayler and Moog-synth pioneer, brought this seismically influential session out in 1972 – its synth-warped banshee vocals, morphed... more info

Guardian Music — (Mack Avenue)Gary Burton, the finest exponent of four-mallet vibraphone-playing in jazz history, is at Ronnie Scott's next week with the first touring band he's had in six years. It's been worth the wait. Burton hired Pat Metheny when the guitarist w... more info

The Telegraph — On this solo album Pat Metheny goes back to the hit songs of his youth. Rating: * * * more info

Guardian Music — 13 July 1985: Number 42 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of dance music13 July 1985 was dubbed "the day rock'n'roll changed the world" for the £150m raised by the Live Aid famine-relief shows in the UK and the US. No jazz event coul... more info

Guardian Music — (Nonesuch)This unaccompanied acoustic guitar album (recorded alone, late at night, and sounding like it) is the first Metheny has made in his four-decade career in which there isn't a single original. All 10 tracks (including Girl from Ipanema, the... more info

Guardian Music — (Basho)Last year, this world-class Anglo-US quartet (touring the UK until 23 June) first unveiled the breadth of its appeal – from byzantine contemporary bebop to raw, Hendrix-like guitar blues by way of Pat Metheny's lyricism and Gwilym Simcock's... more info

Guardian Music — Pizza Express, LondonThe word is that every night of the current UK tour by the Anglo/US quartet the Impossible Gentlemen has been different so far, and given the technical firepower of the individuals and their swashbuckling confidence, it seems lik... more info