Lyle Workman

Lyle Workman brings an original instrumental jazz-rock quartet to Alvas Showroom, with Workman on guitar, Matt Rohde on keyboards, Derek Frank on bass, and Joe Travers on drums. Expect a band set built around Workman’s compositions, with the lineup’s keyboards, bass and drums framing his guitar-led writing and improvisation. It is also a return to the room for Workman: his 2026 release LIVE AT ALVAS documented a previous performance here.

Born and raised in San Jose, Workman is a guitarist, composer, improviser and film scorer whose work moves through what Blue Canoe Records calls “progressive jazz rock fusion,” blending “cinatic textures, progressive improvisation, modern fusion, and expressive interplay.” His film credits include Superbad, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Get Him to the Greek. As a session guitarist, he has recorded with Sting, Todd Rundgren, Frank Black, Alanis Morissette, Michael Bublé, Norah Jones and Sarah McLachlan, while the label also notes work with Beck. Rohde has toured with Jane’s Addiction and the Dixie Chicks; Frank has toured with Shania Twain and Gwen Stefani; Travers has worked with Joe Satriani, Eric Johnson and Dweezil Zappa. Blue Canoe calls Workman’s guitar work “virtuosic,” and his live performances “adventurous” and “emotionally charged.”