The official website for Paul Lyons… the guy who lives in San Francisco. Composer, arranger, piano, chromatic harmonica, diatonic harmonica & guitar.
On this website you can also purchase full arrangements from the Azabache CD and also a book of Toots Thielemans transcriptions.
NEWS – APRIL 11, 2026
Our good friend, master percussionist, singer, composer and often band leader, Raphael “Ray” Martinez has left the building. RIP Ray. We love you!
Below is a live version from 1997, recorded at El Rio is San Francisco on a Sony Walkman Cassette player. It is a musical collaboration – Simplemente Complicada that eventually was published on Azabache’s first album.. This may have been the first time we played this song live.
- Simplemente Complicada Mazacote – Lyrics Ray Martinez, Music and Arrangement by Paul Lyons 7:35