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Unity Band

Unity Band

Studio album by

Pat Metheny, Chris Potter, Ben Williams, Antonio Sánchez

Released

June 12, 2012

Recorded

February 2012

Studio

Avatar Studios, New York City

Length

65:49

Pat Metheny

Pat Metheny chronology

What's It All About
(2011)

Unity Band
(2012)

The Orchestrion Project
(2013)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]
The Observer	^[2]
BBC	favorable^[3]
The Guardian	^[4]
The Independent on Sunday	^[5]

Unity Band is a studio album by 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.

Track listing

All music is composed by Pat Metheny.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"New Year"	7:37
2.	"Roofdogs"	5:33
3.	"Come and See"	8:28
4.	"This Belongs to You"	5:20
5.	"Leaving Town"	6:24
6.	"Interval Waltz"	6:26
7.	"Signals (Orchestrion Sketch)"	11:26
8.	"Then and Now"	5:57
9.	"Breakdealer"	8:34
Total length:		65:49

Personnel

Pat Metheny – acoustic and electric guitars, guitar synthesizer, orchestrionics
Chris Potter – tenor and soprano saxophone, bass clarinet
Ben Williams – double bass
Antonio Sánchez – drums

Technical personnel

Pat Metheny – producer
Steve Rodby – associate producer
Robert Hurwitz – executive producer
James Farber – recording
Pete Karam – mixing
Ted Jensen – mastering at Sterling Sound, NYC, USA
Barbara De Wilde – artwork
Jack Vartoogian, Jimmy Katz – photography

Charts

Chart (2012)	Peak position
US Billboard 200^[6]	146
US Billboard Top Jazz Albums^[7]	2

Awards

Grammy Awards

Year	Category
2013	Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album

References

^ Jurek, Thom. Unity Band - Pat Metheny : Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards : AllMusic at AllMusic. Retrieved June 25, 2012.
^ Gelly, Dave (June 24, 2012). "Pat Metheny: Unity Band ? review". The Observer. London. Retrieved June 25, 2012.
^ Le Gendre, Kevin. "BBC - Music - Review of Pat Metheny - Unity Band". BBC. Retrieved June 25, 2012.
^ Fordham, John (June 7, 2012). "Pat Metheny: Unity Band ? review". The Guardian. London. Retrieved June 25, 2012.
^ Johnson, Phil (June 10, 2012). "Album: Pat Metheny, Unity Band (Nonesuch) - Reviews - Music - The Independent". London: The Independent. Retrieved June 25, 2012.
^ "Pat Metheny Chart History: Billboard 200". Billboard. Retrieved May 12, 2020.
^ "Pat Metheny Chart History: Jazz Albums". Billboard. Retrieved May 12, 2020.

Group albums

As leader

Pat Metheny Group	Pat Metheny Group (1978) American Garage (1979) Offramp (1982) Travels (1983) First Circle (1984) The Falcon and the Snowman (1985) Still Life (Talking) (1987) Letter from Home (1989) The Road to You (1993) We Live Here (1995) Quartet (1996) Imaginary Day (1997) Speaking of Now (2002) The Way Up (2005)
Others	Bright Size Life (1976) Watercolors (1977) 80/81 (1980) Rejoicing (1984) Question and Answer (1990) Secret Story (1992) Flower Hour (1992) Trio 99 → 00 (2000) Trio → Live (2000) Day Trip (2008) Tokyo Day Trip (2008) Unity Band (2012) Kin (←→) (2014) The Unity Sessions (2016) From This Place (2020)

As group member/side man

Jaco (1974)
Ring (1974)
Dreams So Real - Music of Carla Bley (1975)
Passengers (1976)
Shadows and Light (1980)
Michael Brecker (1987)
Parallel Realities (1990)
Reunion (1990)
Till We Have Faces (1992)
Wish (1993)
Blues for Pat: Live in San Francisco (1995)
Tales from the Hudson (1996)
Like Minds (1998)
The Sound of Summer Running (1998)
Time Is of the Essence (1999)
Nearness of You: The Ballad Book (2001)
Upojenie (2002)
Portrait of Jaco: The Early Years, 1968–1978 (2003)
Pilgrimage (2007)
Quartet Live (2009)
Hommage à Eberhard Weber (2015)

Solo albums

New Chautauqua (1979)
Zero Tolerance for Silence (1994)
A Map of the World (1999)
One Quiet Night (2003)
Orchestrion (2010)
What's It All About (2011)
The Orchestrion Project (2013)
Road to the Sun (2021)
Dream Box (2023)
MoonDial (2024)

Collaborations

As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls (1981, Mays)
Song X (1986, Coleman)
Electric Counterpoint (1989)
I Can See Your House from Here (1994, Scofield)
Beyond the Missouri Sky (Short Stories) (1997, Haden)
Jim Hall & Pat Metheny (1999, Hall)
Upojenie (2002, Jopek)
Metheny Mehldau (2006, Mehldau)
Metheny Mehldau Quartet (2007, Mehldau)
Tap:John Zorn's Book of Angels Vol. 20 (2013, Zorn)
Cuong Vu Trio Meets Pat Metheny (2016, Vu)

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