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Will Lyle
Will Lyle (born 1994) is an upright and electric bassist, bandleader, composer, arranger, and producer from Orange County, California and based in Los Angeles.
A year after graduating from Berklee College of Music, he toured with GRAMMY award-winning drummer Billy Kilson's quartet to Japan in 2017.
After a year of playing in Los Angeles, he became a member of the hard bop pianist Jon Mayer's trio (alumnus of John Coltrane, Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra, and others) with Roy McCurdy (of Cannonball Adderley's group) on drums. He has since also performed with Ralph Peterson, Bob Sheppard, Marvin "Smitty" Smith, Pasquale Grasso, Ralph Moore, Joshua Breakstone, Randy Napoleon, Clayton Cameron, Gerry Gibbs, Erena Terakubo, Ricky Woodard, Steve Hass, Barbara Morrison (with John Stephens' Big Bluzzy Band), Melissa Morgan, Francisco Torres, Joey Sellers/Ben Clatworthy's System VI, Ron Escheté, Jackie Ryan, Jonathan Pinson (with Ian Buss at Dizzy's in San Diego), Gary Matsumoto, John Storie, Ilya Serov, Lizzie and the Triggermen, Lia Booth, Tony Guerrero, Kevin Kanner, Mikan Zlatkovich, Gilbert Castellanos, Peter Sprague, Gene Jackson, Jacques Lesure, Lawrence Leathers, Miki Yamanaka, Barry Minnifield (The Voice), Eric Reed (with Gaslamp Quarter Orchestra), Victory Boyd, Art of Verse, and Sumerian Records artist Bones UK. He has recorded as a session bassist on the TV series "Escape at Dannemora", and on LA veteran pianist and GRAMMY foundation member Rob Mullins's 2018 release "The Nearness of You", and keeps and active performing and recording schedule.
In 2020 he received a presidential scholarship to study with the most recorded jazz bassist of all time and former member of Miles Davis's band, Ron Carter, at Manhattan School of Music. Will is currently freelancing in the LA area and doing graduate school online.
His self-released debut record LA Source Codes is scheduled for May 2021 and features Bob Sheppard, Marvin "Smitty" Smith, Mahesh Balasooriya, Adam Hersh, Anthony Fung, Nikki Campbell, Mikan Zlatkovich, Jon Mayer and Roy McCurdy, and features several jazz standards and four of Will's original compositions. It is dedicated to the memory of his mentor in jazz, the great Ralph Peterson, Jr.
In 2019, he toured with the Ron King Big Band to Jakarta, Indonesia for the Java Jazz Festival. The same year, he arranged for and directed a 20 piece big band with strings for Barry Minniefield's A Salute to Sinatra concert at the Rancho Mirage Amphitheater. In August of 2019 he performed his debut concert as a bandleader at the Blue Whale in downtown Los Angeles. He has also performed at The Lighthouse in Hermosa Beach, Sam First, Scullers Jazz Club, The Mint in Los Angeles, Mister Kelly's in Osaka, Pit Inn in Tokyo, and many other venues.
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Will Lyle: L.A. Source Codes
by Kyle Simpler
For computer programmers, a source code is a piece of computer language, which they are able to read and transfer and put to use in a practical way. With his debut album, L.A. Source Codes, bassist Will Lyle makes a connection between this concept and jazz. As with computer programming, jazz has its own language, and learning the language of jazz can be somewhat challenging. A skilled player, however, can take musical “source codes," such as chords, scales and arpeggios, ...
Continue ReadingTake Five with Will Lyle
by AAJ Staff
Meet Will Lyle Born in Southern California, Will began studying cello when he was three and also played drums, guitar, piano and percussion, taking up the electric bass at the age of 12. “I had aspirations to become a producer and I originally went to Berklee for musical production, but during my freshman year I heard Paul Chambers]} and {{Scott LaFaro and decided that that was what I wanted to do." After graduating, he toured Japan with drummer Billy Kilson, ...
Continue ReadingBebop Bassist Will Lyle Readies Debut Album, 'l.A. Source Codes' Featuring 3 Generations Of Musicians
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1888 Media
A source code is a piece of computer language that is readable by a human programmer. The talented young bassist-composer Will Lyle sees bebop and the jazz language as a musical source code that is kept alive by both the keepers of the flame and the younger players who push the music forward. Born in Southern California, Will began studying cello when he was three and also played drums, guitar, piano and percussion, taking up the electric bass at the ...
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Guitarist And Film Music Mastermind Lyle Workman To Release Stunning New Instrumental Album 'Uncommon Measures' On Feb. 19, 2021 On Blue Canoe Records
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Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
Known both as a first-call sideman/session musician and a top-shelf film composer with credits including Superbad, “The 40-Year-Old Virgin, and Forgetting Sarah Marshall, prolific guitarist Lyle Workman will release Uncommon Measures, his first solo album in a more than a decade, on February 19, 2021, via Blue Canoe Records. Featuring a 63- piece orchestra recorded live at Abbey Road under the direction of orchestrator extraordinaire John Ashton Thomas (Black Panther, Captain Marvel), the collection plays like the score to some ...
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In The Tradition Of Keith Jarrett And Lyle Mays, Solo Pianist Jim Robbins Releases "Only Two Things"
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Jim Robbins
Jim Robbins, professional solo pianist and recording artist, has released his newest CD—Only Two Things. In the tradition of Liz Story, George Winston, Lyle Mays and Keith Jarrett, listeners have described his music as “beautiful," “remarkable," and “compelling." One Amazon reviewer remarked, “It is, quite simply, one of the most unique and beautiful listening experiences I have had in years." Why the album title, “Only Two Things”? The tracks on Robbins’ new solo piano release, Only Two Things, elicit the ...
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Lyle Lovett - Release Me (2012)
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Something Else!
If you know anything about Lyle Lovett, the tongue-firmly-in-cheek title of his forthcoming release—his last for Curb Records, the only label he's ever recorded for—will come as no surprise. Neither will the fact that, by pure force of intellect, personality and humor, the Texas singer-songwriter is able to mold what can only charitably be called an odds-and-sods collection of leftovers and thematic left turns into something approaching a recommended purchase. But, Lovett does. Due on February 28, Release Me is ...
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Lyle Lovett: New Album 2/28, Acoustic Tour w/ John Hiatt
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JamBase
LYLE LOVETT ANNOUNCES ACOUSTIC TOUR WITH JOHN HIATT; SET TO RELEASE NEW ALBUM, RELEASE ME, ON FEBRUARY 28 Four-time Grammy Award-winner Lyle Lovett will be touring this spring. Next week, Lovett will also appear on the Late Show with David Letterman on February 27, The View on February 29, and Morning Joe on March 2. Lovett will be playing solo acoustic on this tour. After an acoustic band set at The Concert Hall at New York Society for Ethical Culture ...
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Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt | Boston | Review | Pics
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JamBase
Words & Images by: Nancy Nutile-McMenemy John Hiatt and Lyle Lovett :: 01.13.10 :: Wilbur Theatre :: Boston, MA Ever wonder what it would be like to invite the legendary singer-songwriters John Hiatt and Lyle Lovett over to your house for an evening of song and good times? Well, during the pos- blizzard of 2011 in the intimate setting of the Wilbur Theatre in Boston an event very similar to such an “ever wonder" scenario took place for a sold ...
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K. Curtis Lyle Presenting Benefit for Zimbabwe Nkenya on Tuesday, May 11
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Poet K. Curtis Lyle and collaborators will present “Barackutopia," a performance piece paying tribute to and benefiting bassist Zimbabwe Nkenya, at 8 p.m. this Tuesday at the Kranzberg Arts Center. Lyle will perform his own poetic text, accompanied by sound designer, musician and multimedia artist David A.N. Jackson, bassist Josh Weinstein, and a score by Baikida Carroll.Admission is free, but donations will accepted at the door and will go to Nkenya, who suffered a stroke in November and ...
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Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt, Simon Shaheen and Randy Brecker Perform at the Kimmel Center
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World, pop, country and jazz powerhouse musicians grace the Kimmel Center stages this February.
From a Palestinian oud player and violinist to two great American singers/songwriters and a Philly-bred jazz artist breathing Miles Davis' blues back to life, each artist has transformed their musical landscapes with new influences.
Internationally acclaimed Palestinian oud player and violinist Simon Shaheen blends traditional Arabic sounds with jazz and Western classical music in Perelman Theater (February 1, 2009).
An Acoustic Evening with Lyle Lovett and ...
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Lyle Lovett Sells Millions, Earns Nothing
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All About Jazz
Eclectic country singer says he makes money from touring, not albums
Lyle Lovett says he has “never made a dime" from album sales during his two-decade career, and hopes to rectify that situation when his contract expires. The eclectic country singer has two more albums on his deal with Curb/Universal, his home since 1985, and figures the horizons are wide open. Records are very powerful promotional tools to go out and be able to play on the road, but you ...
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Will Lyle
Location: Los Angeles
Instrument: Bass, acoustic
Publicist: 1888 Media
