Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Unity the Band, led by founder and lead singer Pita "Kai" Kotobalavu, performs during a picture-perfect summer evening in June at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Unity the Band founder and lead singer Pita Kotobalavu, shown here in 2022, was a fixture at Lil Jamaica's beer garden in Green ...

In a time when compressed music is the norm—often removing the details an artist has worked so hard to capture in recording—it's great to have someone like guitarist Pat Metheny still paying attention ...

Jazz-rock fusion takes center stage in West Orange as Luna Stage pays homage this weekend to Frank Zappa, John McLaughlin and other jazz-rock pioneers. The Mahavishnu Project, which performs Saturday ...

Thursday’s blazing quartet performance by Pat Metheny’s Unity Band reset the limits for what you think four musicians can do. By incorporating elements of his fantastical orchestrion into the latter ...

It didn’t matter where Derron Wilson and Janel Johnson-Wilson traveled to hear Unity the Band — Florida, Door County, Appleton — or how many people were there, frontman Pita Kotobalavu always gave ...