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LYLE DAVID MAYS & Friends Before You Go (Live) 7:38 Minutes Performers: Lyle Mays (piano) Jimmy Branly (drums) Andrew Pask (woodwinds) Bob Rice (guitar) Tom Warrington (bass) On January 14, 2011, Caltech hosted TEDxCaltech, an exciting one-day event to honor Richard Feynman, Nobel Laureate, Caltech physics professor, iconoclast, visionary, and all-around “curious character.“ Lyle David Mays * 27. November 1953 in Wausaukee, Wisconsin; † 10. February 2020 in Los Angeles, California Lyle Mays has been an integral part of the Pat Metheny Group since its inception in 1977, and has co-written much of the consistently engaging music for the multi-Grammy-winning group's albums. Lyle's sense of melody, crystal clear virtuosity and almost cinematic scope of orchestration has clearly distinguished the group's sound. Born into a musical family in Wausaukee, Wisconsin, in 1953, he was always encouraged to explore new forms of expression. As a teenager, Lyle attended jazz summer camps and studied with such talents as Rich Matteson and Marian McPartland. He then studied composition and arrangement at North Texas State University before touring with Woody Herman's Thundering Herd. While appearing at the 1975 Wichita Jazz Festival, Lyle met twenty-year-old guitarist Pat Metheny, and the two formed a musical alliance that has proven to be among the most artistically successful of the past three-plus decades. Discography Lyle Mays • Lyle Mays (Geffen 1986) • Street Dreams (Geffen 1988) • Fictionary (Geffen 1993) • Solo (Warner Brothers 2000) • The Ludwigsburg Concert (Jazzhaus, ed. 2016) Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays • As Falls Wichita, so Falls Wichita Falls (ECM, 1981) Pat Metheny Group • Watercolors, 1977, ECM • Pat Metheny Group, 1978, ECM • American Garage, 1980, ECM • Offramp, 1982, ECM • Travels, 1983, ECM • First Circle, 1984, ECM • The Falcon and the Snowman (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), 1985, EMI • Still Life (Talking), 1987, Geffen • Letter From Home, 1989, Geffen • The Road to You, 1993, Geffen • We Live Here, 1995, Geffen • Quartet, 1996, Geffen • Imaginary Day, 1997, WB • Speaking of Now, 2002, WB • The Way Up, 2005, Nonesuch • The Debussy Trio: In the Shadow of a Miracle (Sierra Classical, 1996; mit Jan Bach, Andrew Frank, Angela Wiegand, Marcia Dickstein, Keith Green)
