Lyle Mays Tribute with the Pat Coil Quintet – Nashville, TN

Pat Coil and his quintet, with Danny Gottlieb, Beth Gottlieb, Craig Nelson & Don Aliquo play the music and compositions of Lyle Mays.

As a member of the Pat Metheny Group, American jazz pianist and composer Lyle Mays (1953-2020) composed and arranged nearly all of the group’s music, for which Mays won eleven Grammy Awards. Throughout his career Mays was nominated for four other Grammys for his own work. Mays met Pat Metheny in 1974, and founded the Pat Metheny Group with Pat. In the group, Mays provided arrangements, orchestration and the harmonic and metric backbone of the group’s musical signature, and played piano, organ and synthesizers as well as various other instruments. Apart from his work with Metheny, Mays formed his own trio with Marc Johnson, Jack DeJohnette and Peter Erskine, and formed the Lyle Mays Quartet with Marc Johnson or Eric Hochberg, Mark Walker and Bob Sheppard. Mays also collaborated with electronic keyboard instrument makers Kurzweil and Korg to develop their new sounds since he had great knowledge of both computer programming and music synthesis that he learned by himself. His albums as a leader reflect a large variety of musical interests; “Street Dreams” builds on the content of the Pat Metheny Group, while “Fictionary” is a straight-ahead jazz trio session featuring Marc Johnson on bass and Jack DeJohnette on drums, and “Solo: Improvisations for Expanded Piano” focuses on solo piano improvisations. Mays was regarded by both professional musicians and music fans as one of the most innovative and creative jazz pianists and keyboardists, but he considered himself more of a serious contemporary composer with an advanced approach to classical music, harmonic aesthetics, and structural development through long forms.

Pianist Pat Coil has toured Japan, South America, Europe and the U.S. with such artists as Michael McDonald, Carmen McCrae, Olivia Newton John, Amy Grant, Vince Gill, Woody Herman and many others. Pat has recorded with many artists including Natalie Cole, Trisha Yearwood, Ernie Watts, Carmen McCrae, BeBe & CeCe Winans, Kenny Rogers, Travis Tritt, Peter Cetera, Woody Herman, Scott Henderson, and Michael McDonald.

During his L.A. years, Pat played on many movie and TV scores, including Star Trek – Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Murphy Brown, Dionne Warwick & Friends, Growing Pains, Major Dad, Spencer For Hire, The Grammy Awards and many more. He played for various artists on the Tonight Show, Arsenio Hall, & Conan O’Brien. Living now in Nashville TN, Pat continues his successful career composing, recording, performing, producing, arranging and teaching. He has composed, produced and performed on hundreds of underscores heard on a variety of media all over the world. Pat taught jazz piano, combos, and improvisation at Middle Tennessee State University, and was an Associate Professor of Jazz Studies at the University Of North Texas.

Pat has recorded six solo jazz albums of his own, the third one being a collaboration with Lyle Mays. “True North” and his new album “Birdhouse” are available at patcoil.com, cdbaby.com and I-Tunes. Pat currently tours with Michael McDonald and Lynda Carter. He also makes numerous appearances with his own group. Pat has a new release of his original music, “Music For Humans….and Other Species”. For more information, please visit patcoil.com..

This show is 21 and over only. All sales are final and we unfortunately cannot offer any refunds. Additional tickets may be available at the door on the day of the show even if it is sold out online.

Please try to arrive 15 minutes prior to the show start time. If you do not arrive within 45 minutes after the show start time on your ticket your seat may be resold to other patrons at the door. If you arrive after 45 minutes from the start time of the show and your ticket has been resold, although we cannot guarantee it, we will try our best to make space for you to attend the show.