Unity Band Digital MP3 Album

Unity Band Digital MP3 AlbumFor the first time since his 1980 release 80 81, Metheny has recorded with a band that features tenor saxophone. Unity Band introduces a new Metheny ensemble of the same name with Chris Potter on sax and bass clarinet, longtime collaborator Antonio Sanchez on drums, and the up and coming Ben Williams on bass. The album features nine new Metheny compositions, "each one exquisitely performed and uniquely absorbing," says the Observer. All About Jazz

silence and a certain submarine ambience that’s dense and deep as deafness itself

A "landmark recording of the Beethoven concertos

Will Jennings

As with his 2014 album

is five original works written by Shaw: two suites written for string quartet—Three Essays and The Evergreen

" Chicago Reader calls it "one of the best records of his career

is on display in this collection

"The voices are still silken

and one well known standard by Ray Noble

and Ricky Ian Gordon

who created the opera’s libretto

David Byrne was inspired by tabloid headlines to make an ode to the extraordinariness of ordinary American life