George
Cables Trio 
George Cables, piano; Larry Grenadier, bass; Eddie
Marshall, drums
Monday August 2, 8 PM | Dinkelspiel Auditorium
Tickets: $32 general | $18 students | TAKE 5!
Inside Jazz: Cable Vision: The Piano Stylings
of George Cables
Speaker: Melanie Berzon, KCSM Jazz Radio 91.1 7 pm (free with concert ticket)
Pianist George Cables has been one of the most sought-after
sidemen in jazz for more than four decades. His versatile playing
and ability to bring out the best in any group's sound have made
him indispensible to artists like Art Blakey, Dexter Gordon, Woody
Shaw, and Art Pepper. With more than 20 albums under his own name,
he is equally distinguished as a leader. Cables has absorbed a huge
variety of sounds and styles and incorporated them into his playing.
From harmonically adventurous post-bop to gospel-tinged blues,
Cables "mines jazz's heavier elements, fusing Bud Powell's
feeling, Fats Waller's juke joint geniality and Art Tatum's
quick wit into his own transformative lyricism" (All About Jazz).
Cables' uniquely virtuosic interpretations of classic compositions
are full of "tough love" for the source material, and his
writing is "more profound, more eloquent than ever" (JazzTimes).
For his Stanford Jazz Festival performance, George Cables will reunite
with two players with whom he shares a special musical history: bassist
Larry Grenadier and drummer Eddie Marshall.
Listen:
George Cables Trio – "Quiet Fire"
George Cables Trio
– "Uncle Bubba"
George Cables Trio – "Fried Bananas"
George Cables Trio
– "My Ship"
George Cables with Dexter Gordon
– "Secret Love"
watch:
George
Cables performing "Looking for the Light"
George
Cables Trio live in Tel Aviv, 2009
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