Just got confirmation! July 10, 9 p.m.

Here is the official press release

Pat Metheny Group – The Way Up Tour
Sunday July 10 at 9 p.m.,
from the General Motors stage!

Montreal, Thursday June 2, 2005 – Here's a great surprise gift from
the Montreal International Jazz Festival to its public! A very special
free concert featuring the Pat Metheny Group, to close the 26th
edition of the Montreal International Jazz Festival from the main
General Motors stage, presented in collaboration with Radio-Canada and
CBC Television. The Festival is particularly proud and eager to stage
this special event, offering an exceedingly rare opportunity to enjoy
an artist of this caliber on the free outdoor site. The concert will
be presented Sunday July 10, 2005, starting at 9 p.m., and will
subsequently be broadcast on July 24 at 8 p.m. on Radio-Canada
Television and later on on CBC.

This extraordinary concert promises to leave lasting musical memories,
just as another immortal outdoor concert did in 1989. Metheny's
performance that year for the masses on McGill Street captivated the
entire city, a major turning point in Festival history and in the
career of the superstar guitarist. His return to Montreal exceeds all
hopes… and is sure to thrill fans, since several of the five special
indoor concerts he's scheduled for the Festival are already sold out!

THE PAT METHENY GROUP - THE WAY UP TOUR
Over the course of more than 25 years as a recording artist, guitarist
Pat Metheny has released album after album, each one brilliantly
documenting another aspect of his unique and nearly uncategorizable
musical journey. Exhibiting an insatiable creative energy, Metheny has
participated in just about every avenue of modern music-making that
the early 21st century might offer a musician. Seemingly bent on
blurring and obliterating stylistic boundaries at every opportunity,
he has created an expansively impressive body of work.

But for legions of his fans worldwide, his crowning achievement may be
his role as bandleader of one of the most acclaimed and influential
musical ensembles of the past quarter century, the Pat Metheny Group.
As the only group in history to win seven consecutive Grammy awards
for seven consecutive releases, the Pat Metheny Group has occupied a
nearly indefinable musical territory that is accessible to listeners
of all kinds while never compromising a unique compositional and
improvisational integrity that is unparalleled among contemporary and
mainstream jazz groups.

Founded by Metheny in 1977, the PMG has relentlessly traveled the
world playing and selling out concerts, festivals and clubs in more
than 40 countries, becoming one of the most active and popular touring
acts of any kind anywhere. Each new record and tour are awaited with
eager anticipation and speculation; this is a band with an imagination
and no-holds-barred creativity that has constantly surprised and
delighted fans with the unexpected, yet always delivers on the endless
promise of imagination and pure melody that was invoked from the first
notes of their first record.

THE WAY UP

With THE WAY UP, their twelfth studio album, the Pat Metheny Group has
upped the ante significantly on all fronts. THE WAY UP is a single 68
minute long composition by Metheny and his longtime collaborator,
pianist Lyle Mays, that draws from the cumulative lessons learned
throughout their nearly 30 years together as a band to deliver a
record of unprecedented structural depth and boundless imagination.
Says Metheny "As we have developed over the years, our interests have
naturally gravitated towards longer and more detailed forms. That
impulse to develop ideas fully and really follow through on what the
material suggested was there even in the very earliest PMG stuff, but
with the more recent albums it has become much more of a focus. During
our last tour, especially with the addition of drummer Antonio
Sanchez, we realized that there were no limits to how far we could
take our desire to expand things not only stylistically but in terms
of the actual forms we were addressing themselves. I think we have
been leading towards an effort like this for quite awhile."

This edition of the PMG may be it's strongest lineup ever. In addition
to the stellar contributions of Mays, Sanchez and longtime bassist
Steve Rodby, the band showcases the talents of Cuong Vu, the
Vietnamese born, American raised trumpet player whose style has been
called "as revolutionary as it is beautiful" and the youthful
Swiss-American harmonica giant, Gregoire Maret, who has been featured
in the bands of Cassandra Wilson, Steve Coleman, Ravi Coltrane and
others. Joining the group for this tour as a multi-instrumentalist is
Brazilian guitarist Nando Lauria.

THE WAY UP is a worthy addition to the extraordinary body of work that
Metheny has been building since he burst onto the international jazz
scene as an innovative 19-year-old in 1974 as a member of Gary
Burton's Quartet. His work as a bandleader of the highest order of one
of the most successful groups in jazz history stands as one of his
most important achievements. Now as a just turned 50-year-old master,
he continues to represent the highest possible musical standard of
excellence with each release, with each solo, and at his best, with
each note. As a new millennium begins, THE WAY UP is an exciting
document of one of the world's most important jazz musicians leading
his group into freshly minted territory. The implications of this
music, with its deep insight into "the tradition" in all its
manifestations, combined with the timeless yet forward-thinking
clarity that is watermarked into virtually all of Metheny's work to
date, bode well for the safe passage of jazz as it moves into a new
century.

Pat Metheny – guitar

Lyle Mays – piano

Steve Rodby – bass

Antonio Sanchez – drums

Cuong Vu – trumpet

Grégoire Maret – harmonica

Nando Lauria – guitar

Don't miss The Pat Metheny Group – The Way Up Tour on Sunday, July 10,
2005 at 9 p.m. from the General Motors Stage on the free outdoor site
at the Montreal International Jazz Festival, and July 24 at 8 p.m., on
Radio-Canada Television and later on on CBC.



--- In patmetheny@yahoogroups.com, markoz7 <no_reply@y...> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Watching tv here in Montreal and they just said Pat will be doing a
> FREE outdoor concert to close this year's Montreal Jazz Festival!! The
> date will be confirmed in a couple days, but it will most likely be on
> July 10th!
>
> Mark