Since you are interested in Orchestrion, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
Manu Katche
Third Round [ ECM / CD - released 22/Mar/2010 ] France-based, Ivory Coast-born musician and songwriter Manu Katche is joined on 'Third Round' by Pino Palladino, Jason Rebello and Tone Brunborg. |
Miroslav Vitous With Michel Portal
Remembering Weather Report [ ECM Records / CD - released 27/Jul/2009 ] As the title suggests, Miroslav Vitous and his all-acoustic band (+ guest Michel Portal) pay tribute here to the formative period of that most loved of jazz-fusion collectives, Weather Report. |
Neil Cowley Trio
Radio Silence [ Naim Jazz / CD - released 14/Jun/2010 ] Described as music for the 'heart and feet', 'Radio Silence', moves effortlessly between moments of heart-stopping beauty, rip-roaring rock riffs and Chaplinesque ditties. |
Bill Frisell
Disfarmer [ Nonesuch / CD - released 21/Jul/2009 ] Disfarmer was an outsider artist who became famous for his Depression-era photographs. This 2009 Nonesuch CD by Bill Frisell is the score commissioned by the Wexner Center for the Arts to accompany a retrospective of the artist's work. |
Stanley Clarke
The Stanley Clarke Band [ Heads Up International / CD - released 19/Jul/2010 ] Renowned bassist Stanley Clarke's third studio recording for Heads Up, 'The Stanley Clarke Band', is unlike his previous couple of acoustic bass releases. In fact, Stanley feels that this album is different from just about anything he's done before. |
Lee Ritenour
Six String Theory [ Concord / CD - released 1/Jul/2010 ] Ritenour celebrates the guitar with an all-star line-up, which includes George Benson, BB King, Slash, Steve Lukather, John Scofield, Robert Cray and Vince Gill among many other superstars. |
Ralph Towner & Paolo Fresu
Chiaroscuro [ ECM Records / CD - released 14/Dec/2009 ] American master guitarist, Ralph Towner offers continually changing landscapes for Fresu's horn to grace, in a very poetic and lyrical set whose gradations of light and shade, of sound and shadows, are beautifully recorded. |
Squarepusher
Solo Electric Bass 1 [ Warp Records / CD - released 5/Oct/2009 ] Tom (Squarepusher) Jenkinson's excursions as a "solo" bass virtuoso are now forever immortalised with the release of his amazing, 'Solo Electric Bass 1'. |
Stefano Battaglia & Michele Rabbia
Pastorale [ ECM / CD - released 22/Feb/2010 ] In this beautiful duo album by two of Italy's most creative musicians, roles are frequently overturned, as lyrical percussion shades into electronics and texture turns to melody. |
Mike Stern
Big Neighborhood [ Heads Up / CD - released 11/Aug/2009 ] His second release on Heads Up, Mike Stern's 'Big Neighborhood' features: Steve Vai; Eric Johnson; Esperanza Spalding; Richard Bona; Medeski Martin & Wood; Dave Weckl; Terri Lyne Carrington; Cindy Blackman; Lionel Cordew; plus several others. |