Anyone who is familar with the Pat Metheny Group will recognize the groups keyboardnista and co-arranger/co-composer of its early, more experimental sound. Street Dreams is one of Mays solo projects that features his wide range of musical interests from the neo-big band horns of its first track, Feet First, and Possible Strait–where's the martinis at?–to the ethereal strains like Newborn, a one-minute and thirty-five second composition. It is the sophisticated, yet spacious harmonics of Mays that have always pulled the Pat Metheny Group out of the jazz-fusion mode a… read more
Anyone who is familar with the Pat Metheny Group will recognize the groups keyboardnista and co-arranger/co-composer of its early, more experimental … read more
Anyone who is familar with the Pat Metheny Group will recognize the groups keyboardnista and co-arranger/co-composer of its early, more experimental sound. Street Dreams is one of Mays s… read more
Lyle Mays (born Lyle David Mays on 27 November 1953 in Wausaukee, Wisconsin; died 10 February 2020) was an American jazz pianist and composer best known as a member of the Pat Metheny Group. Metheny and Mays composed and arranged nearly all of the group's music, for which Mays 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 th… read more
Lyle Mays (born Lyle David Mays on 27 November 1953 in Wausaukee, Wisconsin; died 10 February 2020) was an American jazz pianist and composer best known as a member of the Pat Metheny Group…read more
Lyle Mays (born Lyle David Mays on 27 November 1953 in Wausaukee, Wisconsin; died 10 February 2020) was an American jazz pianist and composer best known as a member of the Pat Metheny Group. Metheny and Mays composed and arranged nearl… read more