After all the indie, pop, rock, electro, punk, post-hardcore yesterday, here's something to chill out to... in our daily FlashBack! feature, in which we revisit one of the past achievements of some of the world's greatest musicians.
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.
Lyle Mays waited a long, long time before straying from the Pat Metheny Group to issue his first solo album in 1985, but when he did, the results were at once removed but not totally untethered to the Metheny sound and feeling. On his own, Mays' synthesizer solos and textures are close in sound to what he was doing in the Metheny group, but the turns of phrases in his acoustic piano solos reflect the heavy shadow of Keith Jarrett.
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