Lyle Mays

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Mirror of the Heart 05:04 Tools
Close to Home 00:00 Tools
Let Me Count the Ways 06:41 Tools
August 00:00 Tools
Highland Aire 00:00 Tools
Bill Evans 00:00 Tools
Slink 00:00 Tools
Teiko 00:00 Tools
Mirror Of The Heart (2008 Remastered Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Feet First 00:00 Tools
Fictionary 00:00 Tools
Long Life (2008 Remastered Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Something Left Unsaid 00:00 Tools
Possible Straight 03:20 Tools
Before You Go 00:00 Tools
Ascent 00:00 Tools
Chorinho 04:17 Tools
Sienna 06:31 Tools
Northern Lights 00:00 Tools
Invocation 00:00 Tools
Hangtime 00:00 Tools
Newborn 00:00 Tools
This Moment 00:00 Tools
Long Life 00:00 Tools
Minuano 00:00 Tools
Hard Eights 00:00 Tools
Lincoln Reviews His Notes 00:00 Tools
Where Are You From Today 00:00 Tools
Origami 00:00 Tools
Procession 00:00 Tools
We Are All Alone 00:00 Tools
The Imperative 02:25 Tools
Black Ice 00:00 Tools
Falling Grace 00:00 Tools
Lightning Field 00:00 Tools
Locked in Amber 00:00 Tools
On the Other Hand 00:00 Tools
Street Dreams, Part 4 00:00 Tools
Trio #2 00:00 Tools
Trio #1 00:00 Tools
Street Dreams, Part 3 00:00 Tools
Street Dreams, Part 1 00:00 Tools
Street Dreams 00:00 Tools
Alaskan Suite: Ascent 00:00 Tools
Alaskan Suite: Northern Lights 00:00 Tools
Alaskan Suite: Invocation 00:00 Tools
Street Dreams, Part 2 00:00 Tools
Street Dreams (2) 00:00 Tools
It's for You 00:00 Tools
Mindwalk 00:00 Tools
As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls 00:00 Tools
Ozark 00:00 Tools
Estupenda Graça 00:00 Tools
September Fifteenth [Dedicated to Bill Evans] 00:00 Tools
Street Dreams 2 (Album Version) 11:05 Tools
What It Takes 00:00 Tools
We Are All Alone (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Lyle Mays SOLO - Improvisation 00:00 Tools
Chorinho (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Bill Evans (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Mirror Of The Heart - 2008 Remastered Album Version 00:00 Tools
03 - Sienna 00:00 Tools
August (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Feet First (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Long Life - 2008 Remastered Album Version 00:00 Tools
Before You Go (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
07 - Trio #1 00:00 Tools
Highland Aire (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Trio, No. 2 00:00 Tools
Street Dreams - 1 00:00 Tools
Fictionary (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Street Dreams, Pt. 4 00:00 Tools
Street Dreams - 4 00:00 Tools
Possible Straight (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Street Dreams - 2 00:00 Tools
Street Dreams 1 (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Sienna (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
10 - Trio #2 00:00 Tools
Hangtime (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Street Dreams - 3 00:00 Tools
Lyle Mays SOLO - Improvisations For Expanded Piano - 04 - The Imperative 00:00 Tools
Newborn (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Street Dreams 4 (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Alaskan Suite 00:00 Tools
Street Dreams 3 (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Slink (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Something Left Unsaid (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Lincoln Reviews His Notes (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Hard Eights (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Teiko (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Invocation (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Trio #1 (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Falling Grace (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Trio #2 (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Mirror Of The Heart (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Where Are You From Today (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
On The Other Hand (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Close To Home (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Ascent (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Northern Lights (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Alaskan Suite: a. Northern Lights 00:00 Tools
Befor You Go 06:53 Tools
This Moment (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Let Me Continue The Ways 00:00 Tools
Alaskan Suite: c. Ascent 00:00 Tools
Are We There Yet 00:00 Tools
Either Ornette 00:00 Tools
Mirror Of The Heart - 2008 Remastered 00:00 Tools
September Fifteenth 00:00 Tools
Alaskan Suite: b. Invocation 00:00 Tools
Alaskan Suite Invocation 00:00 Tools
Au Lait 00:00 Tools
Long Life - 2008 Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
Let Me Count The Ways (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Mirror Of The Heart - 2008 Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
Street Dreams IV 00:00 Tools
Let Me Count 00:00 Tools
Lyle Mays 00:00 Tools
Estupenda Graca 00:00 Tools
Stella By Starlight 00:00 Tools
Disbelief 00:00 Tools
Close To Home [Album Version] 00:00 Tools
Bill Evans [Album Version] 00:00 Tools
Long Life (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
6. Something Left Unsaid 00:00 Tools
Alaskan Suite - Ascent 00:00 Tools
"It's For You" 00:00 Tools
Lyle Mays Solo 00:00 Tools
Street Dreams II 00:00 Tools
Somewhere In Maine 00:00 Tools
Lincoln Review His Notes 00:00 Tools
Nothern Lights (bridge) 00:00 Tools
Alaskan Suite - Northern Lights 00:00 Tools
3. Sienna 00:00 Tools
5. Hard Eights 00:00 Tools
10. Trio #2 00:00 Tools
Long Life (2008 Remastered Version) 00:00 Tools
Long Life - 2008 Remastered 00:00 Tools
05 - Stella By Starlight 00:00 Tools
Street Dreams III 00:00 Tools
Lightning Field (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Black Ice (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Procession (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
8. Where Are You From Today 00:00 Tools
9. Falling Grace 00:00 Tools
11. On The Other Hand 00:00 Tools
7. Trio #1 00:00 Tools
September Fifteenth (Dedicated To Bill Evans) 00:00 Tools
Trio No.1 00:00 Tools
Highland Aire [Album Version] 00:00 Tools
Teiko [Album Version] 00:00 Tools
Fictionary [Album Version] 00:00 Tools
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Lyle Mays (born November 27, 1953) is an American jazz pianist and composer from Wausaukee, Wisconsin. He is best known for his work with guitarist Pat Metheny as a member of the Pat Metheny Group. Along with Metheny, Mays has been a co-composer and arranger of almost all of the group's music and has won eleven Grammy Awards. While growing up, Mays had four main interests: chess, mathematics, architecture and music. His parents were musically inclined – his mother was a pianist, his father was a guitarist – and he was able to study the piano with the help of instructor Rose Barron. She allowed Mays the opportunity to practice improvisation after the structured elements of the lesson were completed. At age 9 he played organ at a family member's wedding, and at age 14 he began to play organ in church. In summer camp he was introduced to important jazz artists. Bill Evans' album Live in Montreux and Miles Davis' album Filles de Kilimanjaro were important influences on his formation as a jazz musician. He graduated from the University of North Texas after attending the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. He composed and arranged for the world-renowned One O'Clock Lab Band and was the composer and arranger of their highly regarded and Grammy nominated Lab 75 album. After leaving UNT, Mays toured with Woody Herman's group for approximately eight months. In 1974, he met Pat Metheny with whom he later founded the Pat Metheny Group. During that period he lived in New York City, so poor that he was "almost starving." Mays has won eleven Grammys with the Pat Metheny Group and been nominated for four others for his own work. In the Pat Metheny Group, Mays provides arrangements, orchestration and the harmonic and metric backbone of the group's musical signature. He occasionally performs on electric guitar as well. On the songs Forward March and Yolanda You Learn from the Pat Metheny Group album First Circle (1984), and in the concert tour for that album, he played trumpet. His albums as a leader reflect a large variety of musical interests: Lyle Mays and Street Dreams build on the content of the Pat Metheny Group, while Fictionary is a straight-ahead jazz trio session featuring fellow North Texan Marc Johnson on bass and Jack DeJohnette on drums. Solo: Improvisations for Expanded Piano is focused on solo piano improvisations. He has also composed and recorded music for children's records, such as Tale of Peter Rabbit, with text read by Meryl Streep. The Steppenwolf Theater Company of Chicago featured an assortment of compositions by Lyle Mays and Pat Metheny for their production of Lyle Kessler's play Orphans. He has composed classical music such as "Twelve Days in the Shadow of a Miracle", a piece for harp, flute, viola and synthesizer (recorded 1996 by the Debussy Trio). Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.