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Discography
Phil & Bill (Palmetto 2150)
Bill Mays, piano
Phil Woods, alto saxophone
Recorded September, 2010
All This And Heaven Too (J. Van Heusen) To hear audio clip click here
Blues for Lopes (P. Woods)
Danielle (A. Cohn)
Do I Love You? (R. Rodgers)
Hank Jones (P. Woods)
I'm All Smiles (M. Leonard)
Mays at the Movies (SteepleChase 31684)
Bill Mays, piano, vocal**
Billy Drummond, drums
Peter Washington, bass
Recorded March, 2009
The Shadow Of Your Smile (Mandel -The Sandpiper)
Pure Imagination (Bricusse/Newley
- Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory) To hear audio clip click here
Judy (Mays - Burn After Reading and Anamorph)
ThereÕs A Small Hotel (Rodgers - Pal
Joey)
You Leave Me Breathless** (Hollander
- Coconut Grove) Charade (Mancini - Charade)
SOLO! Bill Mays (DVD) Bill Mays, piano
Recorded January, 2008
Cool Struttin' (S. Clark) To view video clip click here
Conception (G. Shearing)
Looking Back (J. Rowles) To view video clip click here
Dolphin Dance (H. Hancock)
Interview
Freight Trane (T. Flanagan)
Waltz For Debby (B. Evans) To view video clip click here
Pensativa (C. Fischer) To view video clip click here
Monk's Mood (T. Monk)
Filmed in three-camera, high-definition color before a live television audience. "This is my first solo recording in fifteen years and my first solo DVD. I chose music by several pianists who were important to me, who inspired and influenced me early in my career."
Stuffy Turkey Bill Mays Trio
Five Stars Records FSY-512
Rec. December 21, 2009, Tokyo,
Japan Bill Mays, piano
Mattias Svensson, bass
Joe La Barbera, drums
With A Song In My Heart (R. Rodgers)
Luiza (A. C. Jobim)
The Lamp Is Low (Parish/de
Rose))
You Must Believe In Spring (M. Le Grand)
Blues For Five Stars (B. Mays)
Poor Butterfly (R. Hubbell)
I Didn't Know What Time It Was (R. Rodgers)
Pavane, from Mother Goose Suite (M. Ravel)
Stuffy Turkey (T. Monk)
A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square (Sherwin/Maschwitz)
To hear audio samples & to purchase, click here  Blue Rondo a la Turk
Keisuke Ohta, violin
Bill Mays, piano
Five Stars Records FSY-511
Rec. December, 2009, Tokyo,
Japan
Souvenir de Villingen
(S. Grapelli)
La Plus que Lente (C.
Debussy)
Violin Taksim (K. Ohta)
Blue Rondo a la Turk
(D. Brubeck)
Euterpe (B. Mays)
Pent Up House (S.
Rollins)
In A Sentimental Mood
(D. Ellington)
Oriental Shuffle (D.
Reinhardt)
Tanga (D. Gillespie)
Oblivion (A. Piazzolla)
East & West [improv.] (K. Ohta/B. Mays)
To hear audio samples & to purchase, click here
The Best Is Yet To Come Bill Mays Trio
Five Stars Records FSY-510
Rec. October 9, 2009, Yokohama, Japan Bill Mays, piano, vocal**
Ryu Kawamura, bass
Joe La Barbera, drums
The Best Is Yet To Come (Coleman)
Jitterbug Waltz (Waller)
These Foolish Things (Strachey/Link) Here's That Rainy Day (Van Heusen)
Moanin' (Timmons)
Send In The Clowns (Sondheim) Speak Low (Weill) Willow Weep For Me (Ronell) Get Out Of Town (Porter) **
To hear audio samples & to purchase, click here
Delaware River Suite Inventions Trio
No Blooze Music #02
Rec. 2007/2008, NYC/PA Bill Mays, piano, arrangementsMarvin Stamm, trumpet and flugelhorn Alisa Horn, cello Zingaro (Jobim) 
Fantasy Inventions Trio
Palmetto #2128
Rec. 2005, NYC
Bill Mays, piano, arrangements
Marvin Stamm, trumpet and flugelhorn Alisa Horn, cello Vocalise (Rachmaninoff) Listen mp3
Fantasy for Cello, Trumpet & Piano (Mays)
Mvt. 1 Listen mp3
Mvt. 3
Piano Prelude #2 (Gershwin) Prelude op. 11 #3/Sometime Ago (Scriabin/Mahanovich) Listen mp3 Girl With The Flaxen Hair (Debussy) Listen mp3 Invention #8/Scrapple From The Apple & Ah-Leu-Cha (Bach/Parker)  Live At Jazz Standard
Bill Mays Trio
Palmetto Records
Rec. 12/04, NYC
Bill Mays, piano
Martin Wind, bass
Matt Wilson, drums
 Have You Met Miss Jones? (Rodgers/Hart) Listen mp3Squeeze Me (Ellington) Listen mp3
How Are Things In Glocca Morra? (Harburg/Lane)
Darn That Dream (Van Heusen/Delange) Listen mp3
Music House (Mays)
LetÕs Call This (Monk)
Euterpe (Mays)
Willow Weep For Me (Ronell)
When Will The Blues Leave? (Coleman)
Smile (Chaplin)
By Ourselves
Marstam Music #01 Rec. NYC 2003
Marvin Stamm, trumpet & flugelhorn
Bill Mays, piano
By Myself (Dietz/Schwartz)
You And The Night And The Music (Dietz/Schwartz) Listen mp3
The Lamp Is Low (Ravel) Listen mp3
The Widow In The Window (Wheeler)
Judy (Mays)
Beautiful Love (Young)
Waltz For Mia (Nash)
You Must Believe In Spring (LeGrand) Listen mp3
Airegin (Rollins) Listen mp3
Madrugada (Mays)
Con Alma (Gillespie)
 Beyond The Red Door
Jazzed Media
Rec. NYC 2006
Bud Shank, alto sax
Bill Mays, piano
Red Door (Sims/Mulligan) Listen mp3
The Wind/The Peacocks (Freeman/Rowles)
Why Not Now? (Shank)
Quietly (Mays)
The Touch Of Your Lips (Noble) Listen mp3
I Loves You Porgy (Gershwin)
Carousels (Shank)
Everything I Love (Porter) Listen mp3
Where Or When (Rodgers & Hart)
 Going Home
Bill Mays Trio
Palmetto #2090
Recorded July, 2002
Bill Mays, piano, (vocal on IÕm A Homebody)
Matt Wilson, drums
Martin Wind, bass
Judy (Mays) YouÕd Be So Nice To Come Home To (Porter) Listen mp3
Shohola Song (Sommer)
Home (Clarkson/Van Steeden)
On The Road (Mays) Listen mp3
Shoho Love Song (Mays) - Free M3 Download (Right click to save)
Nosey Neighbors (Rowles)
In Her Arms (Mays) Listen mp3
CominÕ Home Baby (Dorough/Tucker)
Going Home (Dvorak)
IÕm A Homebody (Mitchell)
The horrible events of September 11 occurred as I was thinking about material for this CD. With all the time I spend on the road, coming back home feels all the more meaningful and precious. I wrote four things that reflect this and thereÕre a couple of home standards; the title track is from DvorakÕs New World symphony and I sing Red MitchellÕs IÕm A Homebody to close out the proceedings! The CD is dedicated to three of my heroes: Red, Shelly Manne and Jiimmy Rowles. As on ÒSummer SketchesÓ I really love the natural and warm sound Matt Balitsaris got on the Steinway piano and the trio. Great recorded sound--and in the CD booklet some beautiful scenic photography by Judy Kirtley!
Bill Mays Trio
Palmetto #2070
Recorded October, 2000
Bill Mays, piano
Matt Wilson, drums
Martin Wind, bass
Summer Night (Warren) Estate [Summer] (Bruno/Marghetti) Listen mp3
Fireflies (Mays)
Indian Summer (Herbert)
Summer Sketch (Freeman)
(Gotta Go To) Summer School (Wilson) Listen mp3
Early August (Wind)
The Things We Did Last Summer (Styne/Cahn)
Summer Serenade (Carter)
Once Upon A Summertime (LeGrand) Listen mp3
I always wanted to do a CD about summerÑso many great tunes. The title track is Russ FreemanÕs tone poem from the 50Õs; Benny CarterÕs Summer Serenade is a lot of fun to blow on, and I love the trioÕs group improv on Once Upon a Summertime. Other highlights: some free-blowing piano-plucking on Fireflies, Matt WilsonÕs twisted-blues Summer School, Martin WindÕs beautiful melodic writing and soloing on Early August; itÕs so much fun playing with these guys: great musicians, listening and responding so beautifully--it always feels fresh and full of surprises.
 Mays In Manhattan
Bill Mays Trio & Sextet
Concord Jazz #4738
Recorded May, 1996
Bill Mays, piano Manhattan (Rodgers & Hart) Listen mp3
Summer In Central Park (Silver)
Upper Manhattan Medical Group (Strayhorn)
New York State Of Mind (Joel) Listen mp3
All Across The City (Hall)
Sunday In New York (Nero) Listen mp3
317 E. 32nd St. (Tristano)
Autumn In New York (Duke) Listen mp3
Õ39 WorldÕs Fair (Smith)
I love writing for a 3-horn front line and trying to get a little big band sound. This is a New York Prime horn sectionÑGordon, Neumeister, StammÑall great ensemble players as well as soloists, and each one so totally different from the others; plus, two more of my favorite rhythm section players, and Smith contributed a gem of a NYC tune. ** THIS CD OUT-OF-PRINT. "BURNED" COPIES ONLY ARE AVAILABLE. EMAIL BILL FOR INFORMATION **
 Bill Mays Live at Maybeck Recital Hall
Concord Jazz #4567
Recorded September, 1992
Bill Mays, solo piano
A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square (Sherwin/Maschwitz)
I Wish I Knew (Warren)
Stompin' At The Savoy (Goodman/Sampson/Webb) Listen mp3
Boardwalk Blues (Mays) Listen mp3
Lush Life (Strayhorn)
IÕm ConfessinÕ That I Love You (Neiburg/Cougherty/Reynolds)
Guess IÕll Hang My Tears Out To Dry (Styne/Cahn) Listen mp3
Jitterbug Waltz (Waller) Listen mp3
Thanksgiving Prayer (Mays)
Why Did I Choose You?/Never Let Me Go (Leonard/Livingston)
Grandpa's Spells (Morton)
It was an honor to be part of this respected solo piano series. Maybeck ÒHallÓ was not really a hall; it was an extended living room in a Berkeley, CA home -- a piano teacher who wanted a recital space for her students. It had the warmth and charm of a home, with high ceilings and great acoustics, and the piano I recorded on was a special Òlimited-editionÓ hand-made Yamaha. I had no planned programÑpreceding the date IÕd been traveling doing solo concerts so I brought in a list of material and just played what hit me at the momentÑsome classic favorites of mine, a couple of originals; playing solo gives a different kind of freedom than in larger groups, so there are a few surprise modulations and mood shifts, and loving Fats, Tatum and JP like I do some stride and boogie-woogie also came out that day. ** THIS CD OUT-OF-PRINT. "BURNED" COPIES ONLY ARE AVAILABLE. EMAIL BILL FOR INFORMATION **
 On The Road Again
Road Work Ahead
SBE REcords
Rec. San Diego, CA 2004
Bill Mays, piano
Jim Plank, drums, percussion
Peter Sprague, guitar
Bob Magnusson, bass
Thea's Laughter (Magnusson)
Samba for Shelly (Plank)
Euterpe (Mays)
Bird's Blues [Relaxin' at Camarillo/Cheryl/Perhaps] (Parker) Listen mp3
In The Garden (Miles) Listen mp3
As It Is, As You Are (Sprague)
Modinha (Jobim)
Just A Little Nine Eight (Plank)
Broken Ties (Magnusson)
A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square (Sherwin/Maschwitz) Listen mp3
Bark, Bark (Plank) ** THIS CD OUT-OF-PRINT. "BURNED" COPIES ONLY ARE AVAILABLE. EMAIL BILL FOR INFORMATION **Complete Discography
Many CDs listed here are out of print and/or off the shelves. Bill may have limited copies of some CDs. Please email him with your request. AS A LEADER/CO-LEADER: (++ also denotes: produced, arranged and/or composed by Bill Mays) Night And Day Two Of A Mind Tha's Delights Kaleidoscope One To One One To One 2 Live At Maybeck Hall Bill Mays/Ed Bickert At Maybeck An Ellington Affair StridinÕ In Five Mays In Manhattan Out In Pa. By Ourselves Summer Sketches Going Home AS A SIDEMAN: (++ also denotes: produced, arranged and/or composed by Bill Mays) 2 Generations Of Music 9113 Michael Vlatkovich A Good Thing A Song For You A Time In My Life Alone On My Own Beauty And The Beast Bending Towards The Light Bird Raga Bop For Kerouac California Message Carolyn Leonhart: Vol. 1 & 2 Charles Cochran Meets Bill Mays Class Reunion Collective Consciousness Conversations Crazy Eyes Crystal Comments Dianne Mower & Norman Johnson w/The New Millennium Jazz Ensemble Dionne Double Piano Quartet:Vol. 1 & 2 Dream A Little Dream Of Me Eight Extensions Family Gentle Fire Golden Palm Gone With The Wind Heritage Hidden Treasures I Hear Music Jazz Celebration Kerouac, Then And Now Love Story [& other titles] Marvin Stamm/Ed Soph Project Moments My Old Flame My One And Only Nutcracker Suite On The Trail One Day Forever One For Junior One For Newk One More Mem'ry Outstanding In His Field Play Song Rappin' It Up Revelation Ride Like The Wind Road Work Ahead Ron McCroby Plays Puccolo Say What? Sherrie Maricle Shewhorn Silver Storm Simply Eloquent Super Septet with Kenny Garrett et al Super Trombone 96 with Dave Bargeron, Eddie Gomez, et al SÕwonderful Symphonic Dreams Tale Of The Fingers Tales Of Two Cities Telepathy Tender Waves The Other Whistler The Path The Soccerball Turning To Spring Who Is This Bitch, Anyway? YouÕd Be Paradise MISCELLANEOUS RECORDINGS (HOLLYWOOD CIRCA 1970-1984): Christmas Present Even Now Finders Keepers Gator Harnell If I Should Love Again Jesus, You Are My Friend Love And Life Love Will Keep Us Together Magic Nadia's Theme New Season New York, New York Oh! Brother One Voice Sharkey's Machine Sons Of The Kingdom The Entertainer The Outer Kingdom The Quiet Riot You Are The Sunshine Of My Life ON VIDEO: 2 A.M. Paradise Cafe Mays & Mitchell Play Monk Mays & Mitchell: Alone Together Road Work Ahead:Carnival Suite Studio Live NorthSea Jazz Festival
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