Dave Gelly

Pat Metheny: The Orchestrion Project - review

(Nonesuch) The orchestrion is a mechanical orchestra, dating back to the early 19th century, which Metheny has reinvented for the digital age. From his guitar, he controls a vast assemblage of musical odds and ends, from pianos to rows of tuned bottl

Chris Potter: The Sirens - review

Ron Carter: San Sebastian - review

(In & Out) Consisting as it does of pianist Mulgrew Miller, guitarist Russell Malone and Carter himself on bass, Ron Carter 's Golden Striker Trio might be described as a supergroup, although the label doesn't quite fit its slightly introspective brand

Keith Jarrett: Hymns /Spheres - review

(ECM) Along with his epic piano improvisations, which amount almost to a new and unclassifiable genre of music, in 1976 Jarrett recorded some similar works on the 18th-century organ at the Benedictine abbey of Ottobeuren, Bavaria. This is the first time

Wycliffe Gordon: Dreams of New Orleans - review

(Chesky) Venerable New Orleans favourites such as Panama and Tiger Rag have been played so much over the years, often indifferently, that you might think they'd been done to death. Well, here comes trombonist Wycliffe Gordon , for many years right-hand