The Pace Report:"A Composer's Muse" The George Cables Interview
Channel: Brian Pace a.k.a The Pace Report
Date: 2012-08-20

One of jazz music's unsung heros as a pianist and composer is George Cables. Not only has he been one of the most important and in-demand session pianists and accompanists for close to 50 years, George is a legendary and genuine person that's admired by his peers both young and old. He continues to carry the legacy of the greats he's backed, but is teaching the younger generation the essential rudiments of the history of the music as well techniques of his craft.

George Andrew Cables was born on November 14, 1944 in New York City He grew up playing classical music before he was exposed to jazz music during the late 1950's. George attended the famed High School of Performing Arts where he got hit by the jazz bug that exploded in New York City. Although he began digging the great piano greats that helped influence and develop his own style, it was the horn players like John Coltrane and Miles Davis that really molded his scope of the piano. 

It was the thriving New York music scene that sharpened and made George become a in-demand player playing and recording with the likes of Max Roach, Art Blakey, Paul Jeffery, Sonny Rollins, Bobby Hutcherson, Joe Henderson, Freddie Hubbard, Dexter Gordon, Art Pepper, Dizzy Gillespie, and Roy Haynes.

George's latest HighNote Records release is titled "My Muse" featuring bassist Essiet Essiet and drummer Victor Lewis. He and trio will be hitting the road this coming fall and winter. For upcoming club date information or to order George's latest disc, please visit him online at www.georgecables.com.