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Pat Metheny Unity Band – Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts

$32 for Pat Metheny Unity Band Concert for Two on Saturday, October 13, at 8 p.m. (Up to $64 Value)

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In a Nutshell

A jazz-guitar innovator is backed by an all-star band for an evening of swirling melodies from their new album

The Fine Print

Seeing one of your favorite musicians is a transcendent experience, like seeing your favorite actor play your favorite president. Spoil your senses with this GrouponLive deal to see the Pat Metheny Unity Band at Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts in Storrs. For $32, you get two tickets for lower-balcony seating on Saturday, October 13, at 8 p.m. (up to a $64 value). Doors open at 7:30 p.m. Admission is regularly $10 for UConn students and $15 for all other students. Parking is included.

Though watching his fingers finesse a standard jazz guitar is a spectacle in itself, Pat Metheny's one-of-a-kind Pikasso often threatens to upstage him. Made just for Metheny in a two-year process that began in 1984, the bizarre-looking guitar boasts 42 strings, four necks, two sound holes, and some robot arms just for show; its strings apply about 1,000 pounds of pressure to the wood.

Even when he’s wielding a normal ax, Metheny remains in the business of delicate components held together with great force. With the help of collaborators, he joins his complex and unabashedly pretty melodies to blasts of saxophone and gusts of brushy drum work. A guitar prodigy who landed teaching positions at the University of Miami and the Berklee College of Music before he turned 20, the 18-time Grammy winner has now been plumbing the depths of modern jazz for several decades.

His newest project, the Unity Band, exuberantly stirs the melting pot of American jazz with the help of tenor saxophonist Chris Potter, bassist Ben Williams, and drummer Antonio Sanchez. Their interplay on the group's self-titled first album led Allmusic to note that "it's the rhythm section that astonishes thoroughly." Audiences can expect to hear jams from the album such as "Come and See," which opens with a sinuous clarinet melody that snakes through the harp-like janglings of Metheny's guitar before the drums and bass kick the piece into a relentlessly rolling romp.

Jorgensen Center for Performing Arts

Intimate evenings of music snuggle comfortably into Jorgensen Center for Performing Arts, whose Cabaret Series won Connecticut Magazine's Best Cabaret award in 2011 and 2012. Candlelit tabletops exude a cozy nightclub ambiance around a cabaret stage topped with six acclaimed acts each year and a fresh coat of peanut butter each night. The University of Connecticut brings many more acts to its larger main stage, with a special emphasis on jazz and classical luminaries and music and dance from all corners of the globe.

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    Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts

    2132 Hillside Rd.
    Storrs, Connecticut 06269-3104
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  • Contact Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts at (860) 486-4226 for questions or hours.

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