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Discography - Recent Sessions as Leader/Complete Discography
Fantasy Inventions Trio
Palmetto #2128
Bill Mays, piano, arrangements
Marvin Stamm, trumpet and flugelhorn Alisa Horn, cello  Baubles, Bangles and Beads (Borodin) Listen/Download mp3
 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/Download mp3Squeeze Me (Ellington) Listen/Download mp3
How Are Things In Glocca Morra? (Harburg/Lane)
Darn That Dream (Van Heusen/Delange) Listen/Download mp3
Music House (Mays)
Let’s 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/Download mp3
The Lamp Is Low (Ravel) Listen/Download mp3
The Widow In The Window (Wheeler)
Judy (Mays)
Beautiful Love (Young)
Waltz For Mia (Nash)
Airegin (Rollins) Listen/Download 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/Download mp3
The Wind/The Peacocks (Freeman/Rowles)
Why Not Now? (Shank)
Quietly (Mays)
The Touch Of Your Lips (Noble) Listen/Download mp3
I Loves You Porgy (Gershwin)
Carousels (Shank)
Everything I Love (Porter) Listen/Download mp3
Where Or When (Rodgers & Hart)
 Going Home
Bill Mays Trio
Palmetto #2090
Recorded July, 2002
Bill Mays, piano, (vocal on I’m A Homebody)
Matt Wilson, drums
Martin Wind, bass
Judy (Mays) You’d Be So Nice To Come Home To (Porter) Listen/Download mp3
Shohola Song (Sommer)
Home (Clarkson/Van Steeden)
On The Road (Mays) Listen/Download mp3
Shoho Love Song (Mays) - Free M3 Download (Right click to save)
Nosey Neighbors (Rowles)
In Her Arms (Mays) Listen/Download mp3
Comin’ Home Baby (Dorough/Tucker)
Going Home (Dvorak)
I’m 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 there’re a couple of home standards; the title track is from Dvorak’s New World symphony and I sing Red Mitchell’s I’m A Homebody to close out the proceedings! The CD is dedicated to three of my heroes: Red, Shelly Manne and Jiimmy Rowles. As on “Summer Sketches” 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/Download mp3
Fireflies (Mays)
Indian Summer (Herbert)
Summer Sketch (Freeman)
(Gotta Go To) Summer School (Wilson) Listen/Download mp3
Early August (Wind)
The Things We Did Last Summer (Styne/Cahn)
Summer Serenade (Carter)
Once Upon A Summertime (LeGrand) Listen/Download mp3
I always wanted to do a CD about summer—so many great tunes. The title track is Russ Freeman’s tone poem from the 50’s; Benny Carter’s Summer Serenade is a lot of fun to blow on, and I love the trio’s group improv on Once Upon a Summertime. Other highlights: some free-blowing piano-plucking on Fireflies, Matt Wilson’s twisted-blues Summer School, Martin Wind’s beautiful melodic writing and soloing on Early August; it’s 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/Download mp3
Summer In Central Park (Silver)
Upper Manhattan Medical Group (Strayhorn)
New York State Of Mind (Joel) Listen/Download mp3
All Across The City (Hall)
Sunday In New York (Nero) Listen/Download mp3
317 E. 32nd St. (Tristano)
Autumn In New York (Duke) Listen/Download mp3
’39 World’s 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 section—Gordon, Neumeister, Stamm—all 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.
 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/Download mp3
Boardwalk Blues (Mays) Listen/Download mp3
Lush Life (Strayhorn)
I’m Confessin’ That I Love You (Neiburg/Cougherty/Reynolds)
Guess I’ll Hang My Tears Out To Dry (Styne/Cahn) Listen/Download mp3
Jitterbug Waltz (Waller) Listen/Download 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 “Hall” 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 “limited-edition” hand-made Yamaha. I had no planned program—preceding the date I’d been traveling doing solo concerts so I brought in a list of material and just played what hit me at the moment—some 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.
 THE NUTCRACKER HOLIDAY CD
Toronto Chamber Jazz Septet
Live from CBC's Glenn Gould Theater, Dec. 2001
Bill Mays, piano, musical director, arrangements
P. J. Perry, soprano sax, flute
Phil Dwyer, clarinet, tenor sax
Perry White, bass clarinet/baritone sax
Terry Clarke, drums/percussion
Neil Swainson, bass
John Johnson, alto flute/alto sax
My Bells (Evans)
My Favorite Things (Rodgers/Hammerstein) Listen/Download mp3
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town (Coots)
Clair De Lune (Debussy) Listen/Download mp3
Stuffy Turkey (Monk) Listen/Download mp3
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas (Martin & Blane)
Pavane (from Mother Goose Suite) (Ravel)
Christmas Thanksgiving Prayer (Mays)
CBC interview: Eric Frieson & Mays
Ravel’s Bells (from Ravel’s Miroirs)
Snow Job (Mays)
The Christmas Song (Torme & Wells) Listen/Download mp
Nutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky)
Overture Listen/Download mp3
March
Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy Listen/Download mp3
Dance of the Reed Flutes
Arab Dance
Waltz of the Flowers Listen/Download mp3
Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring (Bach)
 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/Download mp3
In The Garden (Miles) Listen/Download 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/Download mp3
Bark, Bark (Plank)
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 Stridin’ 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 S’wonderful 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? You’d 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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