Pat Metheny is folding his past and future into a new venture, Uniquity Music, a label he has created with Primary Wave’s Green Hill Music that will reissue every album he has released since “Song X” in 1984 and handle all recordings to come. The imprint’s inaugural release, “Side-Eye III+,” due Feb. 27, is his first major studio album in six years and the latest expansion of a project conceived as a showcase for the young musicians who have caught his ear on the bandstand and in his home studio.
Built around the road-tested trio of Metheny, keyboardist Chris Fishman and drummer Joe Dyson, the album adds 15 musicians in the studio — among them bassist Daryl Johns, harpist Brandee Younger, percussionist Luis Conte and a vocal ensemble led by Mark Kibble of Take 6 — to create what Metheny describes as a larger sonic world with roots in the gospel tradition but harmonies that remain identifiably his. A visualizer for the first single, “In On It,” hints at that layered palette, and Metheny, a 20-time Grammy winner with more than 20 million albums sold, does not shy away from the old cliché, calling it “one of the best records I have ever made.”
Green Hill executives say the partnership underscores the label’s emphasis on carefully curated, cross-genre lifestyle music, aligning Metheny’s catalog with Sun Label Group’s mission of honoring icons while cultivating new work across imprints like Sun Records and Gaither Music. “The album showcases Pat’s commitment to collaboration and discovery,” said Blake Davis, Green Hill’s general manager, noting that Uniquity is intended as a long-term home for the guitarist’s restless, career-spanning output.
The project will move quickly to the stage: in March, Metheny and the Side-Eye III+ band begin a world tour that threads through U.S. theaters and festivals before heading to major halls across Germany, Poland, Italy, the U.K., and Spain through the summer. On the road, Metheny plans to keep Fishman and Dyson as the trio’s core while adding Jermaine Paul, a young California bassist, and the percussionist-vocalist Leonard Patton, with the goal less of reproducing the densely layered record than of testing how its material can be stretched and refashioned night after night.
PAT METHENY: SIDE-EYE III+ WORLDWIDE TOUR DATES
3/2–3 – Jackson, MS – Duling Hall
3/5 – San Antonio, TX – The Charline McCombs Empire Theatre
3/6 – Austin, TX – The Paramount Theatre
3/7 – Houston, TX – Lillie and Roy Cullen Theater at Wortham Theater Center
3/8 – New Orleans, LA – Orpheum Theatre
3/10 – Orlando, FL – The Plaza Live
3/12-13 – Fort Lauderdale, FL – The Parker Playhouse
3/14 – Stuart, FL – The Lyric Theatre
3/15 – Naples, FL – Artis—Naples
3/16 – Clearwater, FL – The Capitol Theatre
3/17 – Jacksonville, FL – Florida Theatre
3/19 – Charlottesville, VA – The Paramount Theater
3/20 – Richmond, VA – The National
3/22 – Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium
3/23 – Atlanta, GA – Atlanta Symphony Hall
3/24 – Charlotte, NC – Blumenthal Performing Arts Knight Theater
3/25 – Lexington, KY – Lexington Opera House
3/26 – Knoxville, TN – Big Ears Festival @ Tennessee Theatre
3/27 – Savannah, GA – Savannah Music Festival @ Lucas Theatre
3/29 – Memphis, TN – Minglewood Hall
3/30 – Little Rock, AR – Robinson Center
3/31 – Tulsa, OK – Tulsa Performing Arts Center
4/1 – Dallas, TX – The Majestic Theatre
4/3 – St. Louis, MO – The Sheldon Concert Hall
4/4 – Kansas City, MO – Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts
4/7 – Boulder, CO – Boulder Theater
4/8 – Omaha, NE – Kiewit Concert Hall
4/9 – Madison, WI – Wisconsin Union Theater
4/10 – Indianapolis, IN – Clowes Memorial Hall of Butler University
4/11 – Cincinnati, OH – Taft Theatre
4/12 – Milwaukee, WI – Pabst Theater
4/14 – Royal Oak, MI – Royal Oak Music Theatre
4/15 – Newark, OH – Midland Theatre
4/16 – Columbia, MO – Missouri Theatre
4/17 – Chicago, IL – Symphony Center
4/18–19 – Minneapolis, MN – Dakota
4/21 – Ketchum, ID – Argyros Performing Arts Center
4/23–26 – Seattle, WA – Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley
4/27 – Vancouver, BC, Canada – The Centre in Vancouver For Performing Arts
4/28 – Portland, OR – Newmark Theater
4/29 – Eugene, OR – The John G. Shedd Institute For The Arts
5/1 – San Francisco, CA – The Masonic
5/2 – Sacramento, CA – Crest Theatre
5/3 – Santa Cruz, CA – Rio Theatre
5/4 – Los Angeles, CA – Walt Disney Concert Hall
5/5 – Santa Barbara, CA – Lobero Theatre
5/7 – Irvine, CA – Irvine Barclay Theatre
5/8 – San Diego, CA – Humphrey’s Concerts By The Bay
5/9 – Chandler, AZ – Chandler Center for the Arts
6/6 – Flensburg, Germany – Deutsches Haus
6/7 – Lübeck, Germany – Musik-und Kongresshalle Lübeck
6/8 – Hamburg, Germany – Laeiszhalle
6/9 – Wroclaw, Poland – National Music Forum
6/12 – Katowice, Poland – National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra
6/13 – Warsaw, Poland – Palladium
6/15 – Berlin, Germany – Admiralspalast
6/17 – Munich, Germany – Isarphilharmonie
6/18 – Dortmund, Germany – Konzerhaus Dortmund
6/19 – Freiburg, Germany – Konzerthaus Freidburg
6/20 – Nuremberg, Germany – Serenadenhof
6/21 – Frankfurt, Germany – Jahrhunderthalle Kuppelsaal
6/24 – Zürich, Switzerland – Volkshaus
6/29 – Wien, Austria – Wiener Konzerthaus
7/2 – Udine, Italy – Castello di Udine
7/5 – Rome, Italy – Cavea Auditorium Ennio Morricone
7/6 – Pompei, Italy – Anfiteatro degli scavi
7/7 – Giulianova, Italy – Arena del Porto Turstico
7/9 – Milano, Italy – Teatro degli Arcimboldi
7/18–19 – London, UK – Barbican
7/25 – Donostia, Spain – Kursaal
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