27-11-2018, 21:37
Happy Birthday to Lyle Mays who was born on this day in 1953, in Wausaukee, Wisconsin, USA. He’s a founding and pivotal member of the Pat Metheny Group and as such, a recipient of 11 Grammy Awards as well as being a nominee several times in his solo capacity and with other artists. He is responsible for many jazz, jazz fusion, contemporary classical compositions and arrangements and has the most extraordinary touch on the keys, which is his forte, lol … pianoforte.
From Wiki –
"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. He played trumpet on the songs "Forward March" and "Yolanda You Learn" from the album First Circle (1984) and during the tour for that album.”
The opener from The Way Up ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVx6UQwxaxw
And in a different mood, dedicated to Bill Evans who passed away on September 15th, 1980, the sublime “September 15” from his and Pat Metheny's As Wichita Falls, so Falls Wichita Falls … in a league of their own, these two ...
From Wiki –
"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. He played trumpet on the songs "Forward March" and "Yolanda You Learn" from the album First Circle (1984) and during the tour for that album.”
The opener from The Way Up ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVx6UQwxaxw
And in a different mood, dedicated to Bill Evans who passed away on September 15th, 1980, the sublime “September 15” from his and Pat Metheny's As Wichita Falls, so Falls Wichita Falls … in a league of their own, these two ...
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