Lyle was an incredible musician and a synthesizer pioneer. Most commercial synthesizers have at least one sound named after Lyle. Check out the piano solo on Pat Metheny’s “Phase Dance” or the long-term “As Falls Witchita Falls” to hear his brilliance.
Mays and Metheny created two of my ten “take them to a desert island” albums. “As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls” is mesmerizing, worthy of the nearly daily listening I have given it for the past almost 40 years.