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Lyle Mays is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Bill Evans, Miles Davis, Marian McPartland and Eberhard Weber. Those roots explain a lot about how Lyle Mays arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Jan Garbarek, Michael Brecker, Chick Corea and Dave Grusin, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Mk.gee, Pat Metheny, Earth Wind and Fire, Milton Nascimento and Eberhard Weber, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 14 connections around Lyle Mays, reaching back through Bill Evans and forward to Mk.gee. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Lyle Mays connections
Lyle Mays grew out of Bill Evans, Miles Davis, Marian McPartland and Eberhard Weber, shares an orbit with Jan Garbarek, Michael Brecker, Chick Corea and Dave Grusin, went on to shape Mk.gee, Pat Metheny, Earth Wind and Fire and Milton Nascimento. 14 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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