The Detroit Jazz Festival has been around, under one name or another, for 33 years. And Pat Metheny has missed all of them. But, the guitarist contends, it's nothing personal. It's more about "when it ...

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 ...

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 ...

It's possible that the last time Pat Metheny played a club gig in town, it was the mid-'70s at the Longhorn Bar, better known as the breeding ground of Twin Cities punk. The guitar superstar ...

Although Pat Metheny is in many aspects a global citizen, he is first and foremost a native of Missouri. His midwestern-American background and influences appear in his music much like a motif appears ...

The Unity Sessions works as both epilogue and re-examination for guitarist Pat Metheny. It chronicles the seemingly completed chapter of the jazz journeyman’s Unity Band, the traditionally designed ...