Pierre Piscitelli/Lyle Mays

[ed. Pierre Piscitelli has a YouTube channel for piano instruction (a very good one) and seems like a nice guy. A week ago he posted a video about his friend Lyle Mays on the fifth anniversary of Lyle's death: Remembering Lyle Mays, My Biggest Musical Hero. As most probably know, Lyle was the principle keyboardist and co-composer with the Pat Metheny Group, a successful solo artist in his own right, and an extraordinary musician. Pierre talks about how they met, quickly became friends, and how he eventually ended up collaborating with Lyle to transcribe all his music into a songbook before he died. The video above - Slink - started it all. Apparently someone who knew Lyle had found it and forwarded it to him. He was so impressed he contacted Pierre out of the blue, they started exchanging emails and that's how it all got started (as well as Pierre's eventual path to his own YouTube channel). So anyway, that's the story. Enjoy.]