The event is part of the Venice Jazz Festival, organized by Veneto Jazz in cooperation with the Regione Veneto, scheduled from 23 July 23 to 1 August, that offers performances by the best artists of the international panorama, in the most prestigious locations of the city. The opening is committed to the Pat Metheny Group, that crowns an extraordinary career arriving in Venice with The Songbook Tour. During the last 30 years Metheny has experimented every style that the music of the twentieth-first century could offer. Founded in 1977, only winner in the history of 7 consecutive Grammies Awards, after five years of silence the Pat Metheny Group returns to Italy bringing its unstoppable imagination and uncontrollable creativeness, that still succeed in surprising the public. On the stage Lyle Mays (piano, keyboards), Steve Rodby (contrabbasso) and Anthony Sanchez (battery).