Pat Metheny: Orchestrion | CD review

(Nonesuch)fThe intuitive jazz improviser, the ­pop-song tunesmith and the hardware geek have always lived side by side in Pat Metheny. His most commercially successful ventures have peppered Latin, rock and country music ­lyricism with adventurous soloing, across soundscapes coloured by digital ­delays, Synclavier synthesisers, 42-string Pikasso guitars and much more. The Orchestrion project (which comes to London for one gig on 10 February) is Metheny's most ambitious ­experiment. H...

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