Lyle Mays

Lyle Mays
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About the artist

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

Top songs

  1. Mirror of the Heart
  2. Close to Home
  3. Let Me Count the Ways
  4. Highland Aire
  5. Bill Evans
  6. August
  7. Slink
  8. Teiko
  9. Newborn
  10. Feet First
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  1. Possible Straight
  2. Before You Go
  3. Ascent
  4. Northern Lights
  5. Chorinho
  6. Invocation
  7. Long Life
  8. Fictionary
  9. Hangtime
  10. Something Left Unsaid
  11. Sienna
  12. Eberhard
  13. Origami
  14. This Moment
  15. Mirror Of The Heart (2008 Remastered Album Version)
  16. Long Life (2008 Remastered Album Version)
  17. Hard Eights
  18. Lincoln Reviews His Notes
  19. Where Are You From Today
  20. Street Dreams 4
  21. Procession
  22. The Imperative
  23. We Are All Alone
  24. Falling Grace
  25. Black Ice
  26. Minuano
  27. Street Dreams 1
  28. Alaskan Suite: Northern Lights
  29. Alaskan Suite: Ascent
  30. Lightning Field
  31. Locked in Amber
  32. Trio #1
  33. On the Other Hand
  34. Trio #2
  35. Street Dreams 2
  36. Alaskan Suite: Invocation
  37. Street Dreams 3
  38. Street Dreams (2)
  39. Street Dreams (4)
  40. Street Dreams (3)
  41. It's for You
  42. Street Dreams (1)
  43. Mindwalk
  44. Street Dreams
  45. What It Takes
  46. As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls
  47. Ozark
  48. Estupenda Graça
  49. September Fifteenth [Dedicated to Bill Evans]
  50. Street Dreams 2 (Album Version)
  51. We Are All Alone (Album Version)
  52. 01 - Bill Evans
  53. Street Dreams, Part 4
  54. Fictionary (Live)
  55. New Born
  56. Hang Time
  57. Trio, No. 2
  58. Street Dreams, Part 2
  59. Chorinho (Live)
  60. Street Dreams, Part 1
  61. Street Dreams, Part 3
  62. Street Dreams, Pt. 4
  63. Lyle Mays SOLO - Improvisation
  64. Chorinho (Album Version)
  65. Bill Evans (Album Version)
  66. 02 - Fictionary
  67. 06 - Something Left Unsaid
  68. Street Dreams - 1
  69. August (Album Version)
  70. Feet First (Album Version)
  71. 03 - Sienna
  72. 09 - Falling Grace
  73. Falling Grace - Live
  74. 05 - Hard Eights
  75. Street Dreams - 4
  76. Before You Go (Album Version)
  77. Highland Aire (Album Version)
  78. 04 - Lincoln Reviews His Notes
  79. Alaskan Suite
  80. Mirror Of The Heart - 2008 Remastered Album Version
  81. Street Dreams - 2
  82. Either Ornette (Live)
  83. 08 - Where Are You From Today
  84. 07 - Trio #1
  85. Street Dreams - 3
  86. Fictionary (Album Version)
  87. 11 - On The Other Hand
  88. Possible Straight (Album Version)
  89. Long Life - 2008 Remastered Album Version
  90. Au lait (Live)

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