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Bill Mays: Fantasy
by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
Between them, pianist/composer Bill Mays and trumpeter/educator Marvin Stamm have been around for approximately 634 years. These two have done it all, including duos and trios and quartets and quintets; big bands and studio work and TV and movies. They've also been friends for much of it, and aside from all the innovation and superb playing ...
Bill Mays Trio at the Kitano Hotel: Movie Themes
by Victor L. Schermer
Bill Mays Trio Kitano Hotel New York City April 13-14, 2007 This was my first visit to the jazz club at the Kitano Hotel on Park Avenue in New York. I was spending the day in Manhattan with a lady friend, and when I learned that pianist Bill Mays ...
Fast Track - Jack Cortner & His NY Big Band
By Jack Cortner
Label: Jazzed Media
Released: 2006
Track listing: 1. Who's 'at Talkin"? - Marvin Stamm 05:02
2. Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise - Sigmund Romberg 05:39
3. Ballad For Betsy - Jack Cortner 05:07
4. Etude - Jack Cortner 05:00
5. Secret Love - Webster/Fain 04:09
6. On The Trail - Ferde Grofe 06:35
7. Limehouse Blues - Furber/Braham 05:45
8. Slowdown - Jack Cortner 04:25
9. Flimflam, Ma'am - Jack Cortner 05:38
10. Fast Track - Jack Cortner 04:51
11. Lover Man - Davis/Ramirez/Sherman
Fantasy - The Inventions Trio
By Marvin Stamm
Label: Palmetto
Released: 2006
Track listing: 1. Baubles, Bangles, And Beads
2. Vocalise
3. Fantasy - Mvt. 1
4. Fantasy - Mvt. 2
5. Fantasy - Mvt. 3
6. Prelude #2
7. Prelude Op. 11 #3/Sometime Ago
8. Girl With The Flaxen Hair
9. Invention #8/Ah-Leu-Cha
Live at Birdland
By Marvin Stamm
Label: Jazzed Media
Released: 2005
Track listing: Svensson; Samba du Nancy; In Her Arms; Waltz for Mia; Two as One; When She Smiles Upon Your
Face; Gemma
Live at Jazz Standard
By Bill Mays
Label: Palmetto Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Have You Met Miss Jones?; Squeeze Me; How are Things in Glocca Morra?; Darn That
Dream; Music House; Let's Call This; Euterpe; Willow Weep for Me; When Will the Blues
Leave?; Smile.
Bill Mays Trio: Live at Jazz Standard
by Ken Franckling
After six years together, pianist Bill Mays, bassist Martin Wind, and drummer Matt Wilson decided to record in the setting where most musicians say magic really happens: feeding off the energy of a live audience. This disc was recorded over three nights last December at New York's Jazz Standard. Mays is one of ...
Bill Mays Trio: Live at Jazz Standard
by John Kelman
Pianist Bill Mays, now in his early sixties, is proof positive that aging needn't necessarily imply either slowing down or settling into a comfort zone. He has been an active collaborator with artists like Bud Shank (with whom he performed at this year's Ottawa International Jazz Festival), Shirley Horn, and Gerry Mulligan, but he's also established ...
Bill Mays: Going Home & On The Road Again
by Elliott Simon
Well traveled pianist Bill Mays has chosen to pay respect to the two disparate but coexisting worlds of the working musician: home and the road. For Mays and his top trio, which consists of drummer Matt Wilson and bassist Martin Wind, Going Home can mean different things while On the Road Again teams him with guitarist ...
Bill Mays: When Mays Plays, Musicians Listen
by Jason West
O the infinite particulars of modern jazz. Promoters can't sell it. Audiences are hesitant to pay for it. Most players make next to nothing. There're no hits. No stars. Minimal airplay. A distant third on the priority list behind dinner and conversation. But occasionally there is magic. Life-affirming magic. The most immediate and intimate kind. If ...
