Au lait es para mí lo mejor que compuso Lyle Mays. Muchas gracias por tocarlo tan sentidamente. Enhorabuena por haber transmitido de forma similar a como lo hacía él. ¡ Muchas gracias!
Thank you so much for sending me this link of you playing the Mays/Metheny compositions. Just wonderful. Lyle has gone but his music lives on in the pure expression that you have given us. I listen to a lot of music and the Mays/Metheny partnership was incomparable. I don’t think Pat has been the same since Lyle died though in Gwillam Simkins he found a brief fellow traveller on the piano. Thank you again Uwe. Come to Reading UK sometime and give us a fencers!
This is for me the most beautiful melody and human created harmony in such a delightful and peaceful vibration. Together with 'Are you going with me' this song 'Au lait' accompanied me 24 hours a day during my study 1983 through 1986....every day and the whole day.....perfect......PatMetheny and LyleMays...... The most gifted musical talents God has ever blessed with....Awesome Uwe Karcher you are a wonder...Abrazo
I was 14 years old when my older brother introduced me to Pat Methenys Offramp, I would lay down put on my gigantic earphones on and would play Are you going with me followed by Au Lait, I would never hear the End of Au Lait Wake up the next day with earphones still on.
I've listened to 'Au Lait' for nearly 40 years. About 20 of those years (80s and 90s) on a daily basis and this beautiful song has never gotten old. It's my travel song. Every time I leave on a trip somewhere around the world (over 60+ countries) it's the song that starts me on my travels. I've requested that Part II be played at my funeral (thanks Lyle) because what is the ultimate journey-but death. And what a way to leave this Earth than with your beautiful melody.
У вас была насыщенная жизнь, сопровождаемая Музыкой.Вы не минорите, ожидая последнее путешествие. Умиротворение спокойного темпа, красивая мелодия под раскачивание аккорда левой руки.
Ничуть не уступает оркестровому оригиналу ( Pat Metheny Group). Наслаждение этой композицией - гармонический, ритмический рисунок плюс вроде бы простая мелодика , но… завораживает ☁️☁️☁️
Love to hear someone appreciates this song as much as I do. I ABSOLUTELY LOVE this song. Sad to even say that there is very little I love as much as it.
A sublime and elegant composition that is so beautifully arranged and played by Uwe. God chose to give humans the gift of creating and enjoying such music. Such a sweet grace.
Lyle was one of my two favorites and yes someone can have two favorites if the two Genius's you're talking about are unique in their styles and compositions. My other favorite is the late GREAT Chick Corea. They've both brought so much beauty and serenity with their unbelievable musical intellect and endless imagination. I truly believe they are playing together in that great gig in the sky along with Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin and Bill Evans. RIP Lyle and Chick💙🙏
Oh, how I cried through this most delicate and precious playing of "Au Lait." You do the song complete justice. Bless you! This song is like a tearing through the dark oyster to suddenly discover the whitest, most beautiful pearl. A million times bravo!
Uwe!! you just blew me away to another world. i’ve loved this song for many years and i really didn’t think anyone other than Lyle himself could play his song and draw so much emotion. This is truly healing thank you 🙏
Amazing, I can almost listen Nana Vasconcelos whispering.... You know, it really brought me back to that feeling when I bought the brand new just released ECM LP and played it for the very first time, I can almost smell it... I was around 18... how can they bring such amazing music to life!... It’s such a masterpiece! Congratulations for your amazing job, your respect for Lyle and his Music. I do love him so much, and continue to deeply feel the sadness of not having him with us anymore, his Music is tremendous! I’m pretty sure you heard the “Ludwigsburg Concert” version which is also amazing!, Thank you and I wish you all the best from Brazil!
Hi Cassio, thank you very much! Of course I have the Ludwigsburg Concert and even thought about making the "Au Lait" version of that album, but finally I preferred the "Offramp" version, which is more melancholic...
ukaykeys Yeah Man, that Offramp version is just amazing, and your transcription on Pat’s solo gave your solo arrangement such a nice mood! I feel the same about James, no other version I ever heard has that amazing feeling the Offramp one does... BTW I was reading your post on your September 15th video, and you described about the Wichita record almost the same I said here about Offramp, and I also did feel the same as you on Wichita! I suppose we are about the same age, I was born October 1963.
Same feelings of this magical and melancholy masterpiece from Lyle. Perhaps it might sound like a circus music from another era, ala morricone or rota. 40+ years of listening to this magnificent album I also can smell the ECM record that I bought in Rio de Janeiro because they didn’t have it in Argentina at that time. All those years of PMG were just amazing, that quartet of greats w nana whispering ay mi amor, eu te quiero tanto…and all the other great songs from the same LP. Thanks much for your beautiful rendition ukakeys!! And I’m also 1965 so same era. Thanks for your comments, you brought me back in time😊
This song has been among my favorites ever since Offramp was the hot new release by the Pat Metheny Group. I could say a lot about it but no reason for me to post my long form critique. It's simply a classically beautiful Lyle Mays composition and I have found over the years that all of my favorite Metheny works were dominated by Lyle's contributions. I consider Lyle Mays to be the superior composer of the Metheny/Mays duo. Or at least his compositions are more beautiful to my ear, and consistently so.
Not just my favorite PMG song but my favorite song of all songs. Ever! Unequivocally and undoubtedly, I LOVE this song. Any cover of it is greatly appreciated. Your cover is by far and wide the best I've heard on UA-cam. Thank you.
When I first heard this in the 1980s, it was a total mnid-f#cker, discordant harmony, changing meter, talking, laughing, then the absolutely beautiful second movement just gave it that artistic balance. Uwe U R a genius. It is so good to see your left and right hand mastery.
WOW... Uwe, this is amazing. By far the best rendition I've ever seen of this beautiful theme. You've managed to put the whole PMG right there in the keys... Mays's piano, Pat's guitar solo pristine, even Paulinho's voice riffs. Kudos to you Sir. Lots of work and talent.
Parfois je trouve vos adaptations / arrangements piano solo meilleurs que les orignaux à plusieurs musiciens. En particulier ce morceau là, qui est une pure merveille 🤗👍🎉Bravo 🎊
"Au Lait" is what I come to consider as "The Love of my Life captured in a song". Thank you so much for this wonderfully thorough interpretation of it. 👏👏👏Bravo!
You catch the essence of this song, transcribe emotions. Really great great work. Thank you a million times from a Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays fan who was listening Offramp in loop in the 80s.
Incredibly your key touch at the piano can be revivified what Lyle did, and this "Au Lait" is one of the best performances among all dedications to him! He must very appreciate it in heaven, I believe. Thank you very much, K.I
Perfect job ! it's amazing to hear every little parts, with only two hands and 88 keys ! I'm really impressed and admiraive of what you've done. And it's such a beatiful tune by Lyle Mays... Thank you very very very much for all that work !
Una auténtica maravilla. Un pedazo de tema sensible, inspirado, inquietante pero relajante...de hecho, cuando tengo dolor de cabeza, escuchar este tema me lo alivia. De verdad lo digo. Es una canción terapéutica para mi.
Between you and guy shkolnik, my lifelong appreciation of metheny/mays has intensified. The harmonic analysis of mr shkolnik awakened my ears to the complexity and brilliance of ( predominantly) mays compositions in a historic context. And then your impassioned playing of the pieces drives the point home beautifully. These songs are classics.
Perfect Uwe!!! Congratulations... no Brasil há muitos fãs de PMG. Au Lait é a sua obra delicada e sem fim. Seria o Bolero de Ravel do Terceiro Milênio?! Seu arranjo Uwe é PERFEITO! PARABÉNS!
This is completely great. I couldn't tell you how many times I've watched your beautiful performance of this Lyle Mays' piece that I love! You have turned all that infinitude into your piano. Thank you!
It's really my pleasure. It's so great to see your performance, it brings me the sense of peace and "infinitude" - I don't know how to write this in English, but in Portuguese it is plenty of meanings. Do you have a facebook page? I was looking for you there, but there are many with the same name. I wish I could talk with you! So, I'm going to listen to you Metheny/Mays playlist. I'm seeing marvelous already. Thank you for you work. It's amazing. Congrats!
I played this over and over for at least 45 mins. A lovely piece and you played it so very well. An enchanting tune and haunting as well. Thank you for posting.
I'm very familiar with this song from the Pat Metheny Group - Offramp album and hearing your arrangement gave me chills! Absolutely brilliant and a whole new way of hearing an old favorite! Thank you!
Au Lait is such a beautiful song. Seeing and hearing it performed in this video helps me appreciate how intricate it is. Beautifully played. Fantastico!
Bravo Uwe. Excellent. I really like what you came up with for the left hand. One of my top 3 Pat Metheny songs and you make it shine. How we all miss the Mighty Lyle Mays.
Dear Uwe, you can't imagine what an emotion it was to come across this video of yours. I am grateful to you for the gift you have given us, for your faithful, precise and heartfelt work. "Au lait" is a very rare fusion of heart and brain, of musical inspiration and construction. After 40 years and hundreds of plays, in my nights of study, contemplation, memories, I continue to look for it with the same invariable emotion. And your solo piano version is a delight. A thousand thanks
Congratulations! The original of this piece is so tender and delicate; showing the subtile co-work between two of the worlds most outstanding jazz musicians. Making your own transcription, arrangement and performance; at the same time beeing true to the almost coversation-like qualities between the themes and solo parts is NOT easy. An unskilled performer could easily make this piece painfully mechanical and almost boring. You definetly don't!Your work on this one is just exellent in every way, and a nice dedication to Lyle Mays. His music will never die. Hope to hear more from you soon.
Many thanks for the really nice and at the same time so profound comment! And you're right - Lyle's art will stay forever. Check out my playlist from Lyle, Pat & PMG ... More projects to come
This is an astonishing performance of this piece. You have so sensitively captured the textures, spirit and invention of this piece with a technical mastery that is beyond comprehension. Thank you for this beautiful capture of what makes this composition so extraordinary. This elevates the piece in ways similar to your arrangement of Close to Home. So grateful for this...
Thank you Uwe for transcribing the most beautiful music ever written for solo piano. You bring such joy to someone like myself who with practice can learn and play this piece but could never have transcribed it. THANK YOU!!
J'ai vu et entendu des centaines de reprises du PMG, et quelques-unes de "Au Lait", mais c'est de très loin la plus magnifiquement jouée que j'ai eu le plaisir de voir et d'écouter. Avec "September Fifteenth" et une poignée d'autres, nous avons là parmi les plus belles compositions du duo magique Metheny-Mays. J'ai déjà eu le loisir de le dire sur d'autres reprises de Mays en particulier, la finesse et la sensibilité d'Uwe Karcher sont tout à fait singulières sur la toile. Enorme travail d'appropriation et d'introspection, au calme de cette pièce et au son si doux de ce piano. Tout ici est poésie, flânerie et émotion brute. Merci Uwe. Du grand art. Pour la petite histoire, ce morceau particulier est devenu célèbre en France puisqu'il ouvre le générique d'un film remarquable d'Agnès Jaoui, "Le goût des autres" ("The Taste of Others"), qui, la même année, reçut 4 Césars en France et fut nommé aux Oscars à Hollywood dans la catégorie "Meilleur film en langue étrangère" (1999). Si vous ne l'avez pas déjà vu, je vous le conseille, c'est un bijou de cinéma. ;)
I saw the Offramp tour in 1982, front row center at the Paramount Theater in Austin, TX. The place was packed. Lyle was about 10 feet from me and Pat was directly in front of me for much of the show. The way Lyle was positioned, I could see everything he did in great detail. I was mesmerized. Of course I remember them doing Au Lait as well as most of Offramp, all of "As Falls..." and much of the 1st "PMG" album along with some tracks that became part of the "Travels" album. It was -- hands-down -- my greatest concert experience and one to which I return often in my mind. Your performance took me right back to my 18 year-old self witnessing a masterpiece. Bravo!
Here is my Metheny/Mays playlist: ua-cam.com/play/PLTFdSA2EkOE0jfY7Z6B2qef23NvBAuR7L.html
Au lait es para mí lo mejor que compuso Lyle Mays. Muchas gracias por tocarlo tan sentidamente. Enhorabuena por haber transmitido de forma similar a como lo hacía él. ¡
Muchas gracias!
Thank you so much for sending me this link of you playing the Mays/Metheny compositions. Just wonderful. Lyle has gone but his music lives on in the pure expression that you have given us. I listen to a lot of music and the Mays/Metheny partnership was incomparable. I don’t think Pat has been the same since Lyle died though in Gwillam Simkins he found a brief fellow traveller on the piano. Thank you again Uwe. Come to Reading UK sometime and give us a fencers!
….concert that is!
This is for me the most beautiful melody and human created harmony in such a delightful and peaceful vibration. Together with 'Are you going with me' this song 'Au lait' accompanied me 24 hours a day during my study 1983 through 1986....every day and the whole day.....perfect......PatMetheny and LyleMays...... The most gifted musical talents God has ever blessed with....Awesome Uwe Karcher you are a wonder...Abrazo
Definitely. One of the most breautiful tunes I've ever listened to. I wrote big parts of my book, while listening to it.
I was 14 years old when my older brother introduced me to Pat Methenys Offramp,
I would lay down put on my gigantic earphones on and would play Are you going with me followed by Au Lait, I would never hear the End of Au Lait
Wake up the next day with earphones still on.
Well said...
You said it all!
Agree why us this Melody totally makes me cry ..why ..
How can there be such beauty ....in a world full of pain.
The song is pure magic.
I've listened to 'Au Lait' for nearly 40 years. About 20 of those years (80s and 90s) on a daily basis and this beautiful song has never gotten old. It's my travel song. Every time I leave on a trip somewhere around the world (over 60+ countries) it's the song that starts me on my travels. I've requested that Part II be played at my funeral (thanks Lyle) because what is the ultimate journey-but death. And what a way to leave this Earth than with your beautiful melody.
Two wonderful creations
У вас была насыщенная жизнь, сопровождаемая Музыкой.Вы не минорите, ожидая последнее путешествие. Умиротворение спокойного темпа, красивая мелодия под раскачивание аккорда левой руки.
Ничуть не уступает оркестровому оригиналу ( Pat Metheny Group). Наслаждение этой композицией - гармонический, ритмический рисунок плюс вроде бы простая мелодика , но… завораживает ☁️☁️☁️
Love to hear someone appreciates this song as much as I do. I ABSOLUTELY LOVE this song. Sad to even say that there is very little I love as much as it.
The beauty of this piece is almost unbearable. Thank You Lyle, Pat and also Uwe.
Unbereable is the right word. It always bring me to tears.
Yes absolutely unbearable of Beauty
Some sun in this dark world. Thanks for this music!
my pleasure, Xavier - thank you!
Great! Incredible! Perfect in every detail! Playing Lyle and Pat's part, of this masterpiece, at the same time, is incredible! Congratulations!
A sublime and elegant composition that is so beautifully arranged and played by Uwe. God chose to give humans the gift of creating and enjoying such music. Such a sweet grace.
AU LAIT AND MINUANO SOUND TRACK OF MY LIFE THANKS
Thank you! Lyle is smiling with complacency, where he is now. I'm sure.
grazie, Cesare - really appreciated!
I listen to it again after two years and I still think you're a genius. The best tribute to Lyle. Thanks Uwe.
>-YOU ARE JUST A GENIOUS VIA LYLE MAYS....THANK YOU VERY MUCH..!!!!
Lyle was a genius and I sorely miss him. You’re interpretation is genius also. Thanks for brightening up my day.
my pleasure, Alan - thank you very much!
Lyle was one of my two favorites and yes someone can have two favorites if the two Genius's you're talking about are unique in their styles and compositions. My other favorite is the late GREAT Chick Corea. They've both brought so much beauty and serenity with their unbelievable musical intellect and endless imagination. I truly believe they are playing together in that great gig in the sky along with Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin and Bill Evans. RIP Lyle and Chick💙🙏
Oh, how I cried through this most delicate and precious playing of "Au Lait." You do the song complete justice. Bless you! This song is like a tearing through the dark oyster to suddenly discover the whitest, most beautiful pearl. A million times bravo!
Uwe!! you just blew me away to another world. i’ve loved this song for many years and i really didn’t think anyone other than Lyle himself could play his song and draw so much emotion. This is truly healing
thank you 🙏
thanks so much, Marcus! 🙏🏻😊
Amazing, I can almost listen Nana Vasconcelos whispering.... You know, it really brought me back to that feeling when I bought the brand new just released ECM LP and played it for the very first time, I can almost smell it... I was around 18... how can they bring such amazing music to life!... It’s such a masterpiece! Congratulations for your amazing job, your respect for Lyle and his Music. I do love him so much, and continue to deeply feel the sadness of not having him with us anymore, his Music is tremendous! I’m pretty sure you heard the “Ludwigsburg Concert” version which is also amazing!, Thank you and I wish you all the best from Brazil!
Hi Cassio, thank you very much! Of course I have the Ludwigsburg Concert and even thought about making the "Au Lait" version of that album, but finally I preferred the "Offramp" version, which is more melancholic...
ukaykeys Yeah Man, that Offramp version is just amazing, and your transcription on Pat’s solo gave your solo arrangement such a nice mood! I feel the same about James, no other version I ever heard has that amazing feeling the Offramp one does... BTW I was reading your post on your September 15th video, and you described about the Wichita record almost the same I said here about Offramp, and I also did feel the same as you on Wichita! I suppose we are about the same age, I was born October 1963.
Same feelings of this magical and melancholy masterpiece from Lyle. Perhaps it might sound like a circus music from another era, ala morricone or rota. 40+ years of listening to this magnificent album I also can smell the ECM record that I bought in Rio de Janeiro because they didn’t have it in Argentina at that time. All those years of PMG were just amazing, that quartet of greats w nana whispering ay mi amor, eu te quiero tanto…and all the other great songs from the same LP. Thanks much for your beautiful rendition ukakeys!! And I’m also 1965 so same era. Thanks for your comments, you brought me back in time😊
I love love love what you did there. I play this regularly. 🙌
OMG.... THIS JUST BLEW ME AWAY... SO BEAUTIFUL.....THANK YOU
This song has been among my favorites ever since Offramp was the hot new release by the Pat Metheny Group. I could say a lot about it but no reason for me to post my long form critique. It's simply a classically beautiful Lyle Mays composition and I have found over the years that all of my favorite Metheny works were dominated by Lyle's contributions. I consider Lyle Mays to be the superior composer of the Metheny/Mays duo. Or at least his compositions are more beautiful to my ear, and consistently so.
Not just my favorite PMG song but my favorite song of all songs. Ever! Unequivocally and undoubtedly, I LOVE this song. Any cover of it is greatly appreciated. Your cover is by far and wide the best I've heard on UA-cam. Thank you.
What to say…wonderful atmosphere remembering the genius Lyle always in my heart, thanks Uwe for your sensitive.
superb effort, thank you for sharing your talent with us, and continuing to reveal the sublime
mysteries of the virtuoso, mr. lyle mays...
When I first heard this in the 1980s, it was a total mnid-f#cker, discordant harmony, changing meter, talking, laughing, then the absolutely beautiful second movement just gave it that artistic balance. Uwe U R a genius. It is so good to see your left and right hand mastery.
Thanks, Mark - yeah, a mindf#cker for me, too (when I was 16 😁)...
Man this was amazing. I imagine Lyle´s hands on the piano reflection mirroring yours. Beautifully played, mesmerizing!
WOW... Uwe, this is amazing. By far the best rendition I've ever seen of this beautiful theme. You've managed to put the whole PMG right there in the keys... Mays's piano, Pat's guitar solo pristine, even Paulinho's voice riffs. Kudos to you Sir. Lots of work and talent.
I recommend Cristiano Califano´s version too, on guitar. By the way, I loved your version of Moonlight sonata.
Stunning homage to the unforgettable, always beloved and master Lyle. Herzlichen Dank Uwe. Peace, love and RIP Lyle🙏✨.
It's not an exaggeration to say I get a lump in my throat everytime I hear Pat's solo at 3:45. ❤
👍 Wonderful job!! Thank you! 🙂 SOOO beautiful! I love both yours and Metheny's versions!!!!
Редкой красоты произведение, оригинально по структуре. Завораживает и возвращает к прослушиванию.
Perfect, amazing, and beautiful. Thank you for playing this song. I love it!
First heard this at least over 30 yrs ago just as beautiful and haunting as ever.
Parfois je trouve vos adaptations / arrangements piano solo meilleurs que les orignaux à plusieurs musiciens. En particulier ce morceau là, qui est une pure merveille 🤗👍🎉Bravo 🎊
OMG, you’ve done it…Lyle’s phrasing…so beautiful! Reeeeeeallly nice!
This is amazing, and you do both Lyle and Pat credit. Bravo, and thanks so much for sharing.
every time I listen to your performances I relive the emotions that only a great artist like Lyle could give us
Herzlichen Dank aus Florenz
Thanks so much - really appreciated!
Excelente❤🤩👍👊💪
"Au Lait" is what I come to consider as "The Love of my Life captured in a song". Thank you so much for this wonderfully thorough interpretation of it. 👏👏👏Bravo!
Thank you very much, Shawn - really appreciated 👍🏻
You catch the essence of this song, transcribe emotions. Really great great work. Thank you a million times from a Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays fan who was listening Offramp in loop in the 80s.
I'm in love with the way he plays this piece by Lyle and Pat. Just absolutely stunning!❤❤❤❤❤
One of my favourite PMG pieces. So haunting. Such melancholy.
👍🏻
Incredibly your key touch at the piano can be revivified what Lyle did, and this "Au Lait" is one of the best performances among all dedications to him! He must very appreciate it in heaven, I believe. Thank you very much, K.I
UWE you tug at the stings of my heart ! This song with JAMES are my favorite instrumental song's of all time .
You're in my music file under Lyle Mays and Pat Metheny .
That's really great to hear, Sharon 😊
Perfect job ! it's amazing to hear every little parts, with only two hands and 88 keys ! I'm really impressed and admiraive of what you've done. And it's such a beatiful tune by Lyle Mays... Thank you very very very much for all that work !
I cried the other night, I can't even say why.
thanks for such a skillful expression of this absolute masterpiece.
Amazing arrangement! You've excerpt all the beautiful highlights of this song. ❤
You're a great pianist! Thanks
Una auténtica maravilla. Un pedazo de tema sensible, inspirado, inquietante pero relajante...de hecho, cuando tengo dolor de cabeza, escuchar este tema me lo alivia. De verdad lo digo. Es una canción terapéutica para mi.
Such a perfect heartfelt performance. Somehow the genius of Lyle's composition comes out so clearly as a solo piano piece.
Between you and guy shkolnik, my lifelong appreciation of metheny/mays has intensified. The harmonic analysis of mr shkolnik awakened my ears to the complexity and brilliance of ( predominantly) mays compositions in a historic context. And then your impassioned playing of the pieces drives the point home beautifully. These songs are classics.
Perfect Uwe!!! Congratulations... no Brasil há muitos fãs de PMG. Au Lait é a sua obra delicada e sem fim. Seria o Bolero de Ravel do Terceiro Milênio?! Seu arranjo Uwe é PERFEITO! PARABÉNS!
have no words to adequately describe how beautifully you played on of my favorite pieces.
This is completely great. I couldn't tell you how many times I've watched your beautiful performance of this Lyle Mays' piece that I love! You have turned all that infinitude into your piano. Thank you!
Thank you very much, Erico - really appreciated 🙏🏻😊🎹
It's really my pleasure. It's so great to see your performance, it brings me the sense of peace and "infinitude" - I don't know how to write this in English, but in Portuguese it is plenty of meanings. Do you have a facebook page? I was looking for you there, but there are many with the same name. I wish I could talk with you!
So, I'm going to listen to you Metheny/Mays playlist. I'm seeing marvelous already. Thank you for you work. It's amazing. Congrats!
HEAVEN. Thank you for sharing this beautiful piece. Just as wonderful as the original.
I played this over and over for at least 45 mins. A lovely piece and you played it so very well. An enchanting tune and haunting as well. Thank you for posting.
Great transcription and amazing performance with all those complex polyrhythms!
I'm very familiar with this song from the Pat Metheny Group - Offramp album and hearing your arrangement gave me chills! Absolutely brilliant and a whole new way of hearing an old favorite! Thank you!
thank you very much for this kind comment, mate! 🙏🏻😊🎹
MAGNIFIQUE...!!!!!!!!!!!!lyle paix à ton âme...
merci 🙏🏻🎹
Au Lait is such a beautiful song. Seeing and hearing it performed in this video helps me appreciate how intricate it is. Beautifully played. Fantastico!
Absolutely gorgeous, Uwe. What a great love letter to Lyle Mays.
you sir are blessed.
Fabulous. Absolutely fabulous. Such a good rendition.
Now that Lyle has left us, this music, thanks to this interpretation, is even more enchanting and moving
Bravo Uwe. Excellent. I really like what you came up with for the left hand. One of my top 3 Pat Metheny songs and you make it shine. How we all miss the Mighty Lyle Mays.
Dear Uwe, you can't imagine what an emotion it was to come across this video of yours. I am grateful to you for the gift you have given us, for your faithful, precise and heartfelt work. "Au lait" is a very rare fusion of heart and brain, of musical inspiration and construction. After 40 years and hundreds of plays, in my nights of study, contemplation, memories, I continue to look for it with the same invariable emotion. And your solo piano version is a delight. A thousand thanks
Thank you very much, Domenico - really appreciated! 🙏🏻
I am SO in envy of this guy's musicianship and the nuances are ON POINT! Wow. That piano saounds killer, too!
이 아름다운 연주를 어둑한 새벽길에 듣다보면 거짓말처럼 어제의 괴로움이 비처럼 씻겨 집니다. 삶은 아름답다.
Congratulations! The original of this piece is so tender and delicate; showing the subtile co-work between two of the worlds most outstanding jazz musicians. Making your own transcription, arrangement and performance; at the same time beeing true to the almost coversation-like qualities between the themes and solo parts is NOT easy. An unskilled performer could easily make this piece painfully mechanical and almost boring. You definetly don't!Your work on this one is just exellent in every way, and a nice dedication to Lyle Mays. His music will never die. Hope to hear more from you soon.
Many thanks for the really nice and at the same time so profound comment! And you're right - Lyle's art will stay forever. Check out my playlist from Lyle, Pat & PMG ... More projects to come
and I'm sure Lyle is nodding quietly with appreciation ...
Uwe...thank you sooooo much!
Lyle always touches my hearth...he is alive
I feel like free flying listening to this. Lovely!
이곡은 선생님의 연주가 너무 근사합니다. 듣다보면 살아있음이 너무 좋다는 생각이 듭니다. 감사합니다.
Ascolto sempre questa splendida esecuzione in tempi difficili e mi sento meglio. Ti ringrazio di questo gioiello.
Perfect! Thank you for offering this cover that resembles much the original masterpiece while playing the guitar part too
Incredible performance. Love how you capture all the dynamic nuances of the overlapping melodies.
Beautiful tribute, thank you…
👍🙂 Such a beautiful cover!!!! Well done, sir!
C’est ma préférée à moi aussi. Magnifique interprétation! Merci
just a masterpiece, congratulations Maestro Karcher
This is an astonishing performance of this piece. You have so sensitively captured the textures, spirit and invention of this piece with a technical mastery that is beyond comprehension. Thank you for this beautiful capture of what makes this composition so extraordinary. This elevates the piece in ways similar to your arrangement of Close to Home. So grateful for this...
Excellent. Thank you, Uwe, for keeping alive the legacy of Lyle.
My pleasure, Carlos! Lyle's legacy will stay forever...
Ça toujours été ma pièce préférée du groupe. Tellement apaisant.
Absolutely beautiful job Uwe! Excellent and very fitting tribute to the great Mr. Mays!
Thank you very much, Dean!
you just made me smile :) thanks for reminded me how much I enjoy Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays music
Thank you for this beautiful rendition
Simply, thank you very much for this. That is an honor for Lyle Mays.
Ich danke Ihnen sehr, mit freundlichen Grüßen.
Hey Uwe, one of your very best ones. Getting the two solos in there is wonderful. Email on its way 😉
thanks, mate - great to hear 😁
Love it, amazing. Thanks for the sharing..
Thank you Uwe for transcribing the most beautiful music ever written for solo piano. You bring such joy to someone like myself who with practice can learn and play this piece but could never have transcribed it. THANK YOU!!
Thx for this magical heaven
I am in tears... thank you.
J'ai vu et entendu des centaines de reprises du PMG, et quelques-unes de "Au Lait", mais c'est de très loin la plus magnifiquement jouée que j'ai eu le plaisir de voir et d'écouter. Avec "September Fifteenth" et une poignée d'autres, nous avons là parmi les plus belles compositions du duo magique Metheny-Mays. J'ai déjà eu le loisir de le dire sur d'autres reprises de Mays en particulier, la finesse et la sensibilité d'Uwe Karcher sont tout à fait singulières sur la toile. Enorme travail d'appropriation et d'introspection, au calme de cette pièce et au son si doux de ce piano. Tout ici est poésie, flânerie et émotion brute. Merci Uwe. Du grand art.
Pour la petite histoire, ce morceau particulier est devenu célèbre en France puisqu'il ouvre le générique d'un film remarquable d'Agnès Jaoui, "Le goût des autres" ("The Taste of Others"), qui, la même année, reçut 4 Césars en France et fut nommé aux Oscars à Hollywood dans la catégorie "Meilleur film en langue étrangère" (1999). Si vous ne l'avez pas déjà vu, je vous le conseille, c'est un bijou de cinéma. ;)
Merci beaucoup 🙏🏻
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I saw the Offramp tour in 1982, front row center at the Paramount Theater in Austin, TX. The place was packed. Lyle was about 10 feet from me and Pat was directly in front of me for much of the show. The way Lyle was positioned, I could see everything he did in great detail. I was mesmerized. Of course I remember them doing Au Lait as well as most of Offramp, all of "As Falls..." and much of the 1st "PMG" album along with some tracks that became part of the "Travels" album. It was -- hands-down -- my greatest concert experience and one to which I return often in my mind. Your performance took me right back to my 18 year-old self witnessing a masterpiece. Bravo!
What a great version! RIP Lyle.😢
Brilliant Rendering of a work of art! 👏👏👏
Beautiful, Uwe. Thanks a milion. My respect to Lyle and his awsome contribution. Best regards.
Most Excellent, thanks you. Keep up the fine work; as you can see it is greatly appreciated!
Just beautiful!!