Nine years after the Pat Metheny Group crowned its mammoth The Way Up (Nonesuch, 2005) tour before 100,000 people at the Montreal Jazz Festival, it seems increasingly unlikely that Metheny will ...

From his earliest entry into the spotlight as a member of Gary Burton’s group some 40 years back, Pat Metheny has displayed a seemingly insatiable hunger for new experiences within the broader ...

Metheny had other plans, including more work with his regular band, Pat Metheny Group, but he said that the Unity Group “sort of took over in a way.” He began scheming on another record. “And I ...

Pat Metheny Unity Group Few jazz guitarists can match Metheny in sheer talent and ability; fewer still in influence. With his newest Unity Group, he continues to do what he’s done his whole ...

Jazz-rock fusion takes center stage in West Orange as Luna Stage pays homage this weekend to Frank Zappa, John McLaughlin and other jazz-rock pioneers. The Mahavishnu Project, which performs Saturday ...

Guitarist Pat Metheny has been at the top of his craft for 40 years — since he first hit the Jazz chart Top 10 with his 1979 album “New Chautauqua.” Since then, he’s had more than two dozen more ...

When Pat Metheny released his first album 40 years ago, he was a frizzy-haired wunderkind from the Midwest, perfectly poised to reach a vast audience looking for the next visionary guitarist. An ...

Pat Metheny's Unity Group is perfectly named because, in its quintet lineup even more so than the original quartet, the group's approach brings together every musical element the famed guitarist has ...

Metheny opened with a solo on his 42-string Pikasso guitar, a Hydra-headed invention with a very delicate harp-like upper register. Watching him grapple in the gloom made for a dramatic start, but the ...

Pat Metheny Unity Group with Chris Potter, Antonio Sanchez, Ben Williams and Giulio Carmassi is at 8 p.m. March 9 at the Pageant. Popular music critic {{description}} Email notifications are only sent ...