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- In 2013, for the first time since 1980, Metheny recorded with a band that highlighted tenor saxophone. The resulting Unity Band, which went on to win him his 20th Grammy Award, featured Chris Potter on sax and bass clarinet, longtime collaborator Antonio Sanchez on drums, and Ben Williams on bass.
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Unity Band is a studio album by American jazz guitarist Pat Metheny along with saxophonist Chris Potter, bassist Ben Williams and drummer Antonio Sánchez. The album was released through Nonesuch Records on June 12, 2012, and received the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album during the 2013 Grammy Awards, marking Metheny's 20th Grammy win.
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Kin (stylized as KIN (←→)) is a studio album by American jazz guitarist Pat Metheny and his Unity Group, an expanded version of 2012's Unity Band, with multi-instrumentalist Giulio Carmassi and saxophonist Chris Potter.
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The Unity Sessions is an album by American jazz guitarist Pat Metheny and his Unity Band: saxophonist Chris Potter, bassist Ben Williams, keyboardist Giulio Carmassi and drummer Antonio Sánchez. A live album in a studio setting, it was recorded with a camera crew in a black box theatre without an audience. [ 1 ]
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After two consecutive yet wildly different solo recordings, (the innovative Orchestrion and last year’s Grammy-winning baritone guitar outing What’s It All About), Metheny returns with a quartet record, Unity Band. For the first time in more than 30 years, Metheny features a tenor saxophone in the front line.
Well, it now appears that Pat Metheny Group is dead, long live Pat Metheny Unity Group, an extension of the quartet that he put together in 2012, documented on the excellent Unity Band (Nonesuch, 2013), a record that, with reed multi-instrumentalist Chris Potter onboard alongside bassist Ben Williams and Metheny's drummer of choice since 2002, A...
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Mar 31, 2014 · This bulkier agglomeration, renamed the Pat Metheny Unity Group, was the evening’s featured attraction, and the force behind its most complicated set pieces.
Jun 8, 2012 · Pat Metheny: Unity Band. By John Kelman. June 8, 2012. View read count. In a time when compressed music is the norm—often removing the details an artist has worked so hard to capture in recording—it's great to have someone like guitarist Pat Metheny still paying attention to the very minutiae that can make a very, very good record great.
