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This past week the world of jazz music lost a huge contributor. Lyle Mays, a keyboard genius, passed away at age 66. I don’t know the cause of his death; published reports stated it was a “recurrent illness”, which could have meant anything in terms of whatever the cause of sickness was. I’m not sure that really matters, though. What does matter is that he is now gone. And his loss affects musicians everywhere because of his influence. What he is most known for, though, is his long-time collaboration with guitarist Pat Metheny. Together they recorded a huge amount of incredible music; their musical partnership started back in the 1970’s. Metheny’s first album, Bright Size Life, was released in 1976, and Mays was a part of it. He became much more invested when the 1977 Metheny album Watercolors was released, and the partnership between them became much more well-defined. Additionally, he was a composer in his own right. And he was good – he knew how to write music better than most, at least in my opinion. I own two of his albums, the self titled Lyle Mays and Street Dreams. Both are all original content, and both are excellent. There is music on each album that I am quite fond of, as it is all extremely well-written. In addition, he was a gifted and talented mathematician and computer scientist, and he was also an avid chess player, reportedly at the master level. As I understand it, he left the music industry, at least in part, ...
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