Lyle mays improvisation youtube

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          "For this record," says Lyle Mays of his new album SOLO (Improvisations for Expanded Piano), "I decided it had to be a mixture of electronics, computer, synthesizer and grand piano.

          JOIN THE NEW COURSE: A breakdown of the great Lyle Mays' harmony, improvisation, voicings.

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        3. Minuano (Pat Metheny - Lyle Mays) | Jazz guitar cover & improvisation.
        4. Video Series in The session featured Lyle's incredible artistry playing Trilian and Omnisphere, completely improvised in a single take.

          5. It couldn't be a solo piano album. That wouldn't be an honest statement."

          What is an honest statement is to say that SOLO, recorded over the course of two-and-a-half days in August 1998 (and Mays' fourth disc under his own name), is also a most audacious melding of improvisation and composition of the sounds and musical traditions that have shaped — and now have been re-shaped by — the multi-keyboardist/composer.

          It is a work whose depth, subtlety and complexity (particularly in its harmonic language) will engage the most sophisticated ear, yet it offers more than enough melodic content and, especially, dramatic uses of natural and synthetic sounds to reach Everyman (and woman).

          And from a purely pianistic standpoint, Mays has never sounded more commanding.

          "For my entire career," Mays continues, "I've