Cables Fables
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Cables Fables is an album by jazz pianist George Cables
George Cables
George Andrew Cables is a jazz pianist, born November 14, 1944 in New York City.He has played with Art Blakey, Sonny Rollins, Dexter Gordon, Art Pepper, and others.His own recordings include the 1980 Cables Vision with Freddie Hubbard among others....

 and his trio, released in 1991 on SteepleChase Records
SteepleChase Records
SteepleChase Records is a jazz record label based in Copenhagen, Denmark. SteepleChase was founded in 1972 by Nils Winther, who was a student at Copenhagen University at the time...

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Track listing

  1. "In Walked Bud" (Monk) - 6:28
  2. "Lullaby" (Cables) - 5:51
  3. "Waltz for Debby
    Waltz for Debby (song)
    "Waltz for Debby" is a jazz standard composed by Bill Evans. A piano trio jazz waltz, it was first recorded on Evans's 1956 album New Jazz Conceptions and, perhaps more famously, on his 1961 live album Waltz for Debby. It has been recorded by many artists, both as an instrumental and as a vocal piece...

    " (Evans, Lees) - 8:39 Erroneously titled "Waltz for Debbie" on the cover
  4. "Helen's Song" (Cables) - 6:34
  5. "Over the Rainbow
    Over the Rainbow
    "Over the Rainbow" is a classic Academy Award-winning ballad song with music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by E.Y. Harburg. It was written for the movie The Wizard of Oz, and was sung by Judy Garland in the movie...

    " (Arlen, Harburg) - 12:05
  6. "Just Friends
    Just Friends (1931 song)
    "Just Friends" is a popular song that has become a jazz standard. The song was written in 1931 by John Klenner with lyrics by Sam M. Lewis. Although introduced by Red McKenzie and His Orchestra in October 1931, it first became a hit when singer Russ Columbo performed it with Leonard Joy’s...

    " (Klenner, Lewis) - 5:48
  7. "Con Alma" (Gillespie) - 8:17
  8. "Sweet Rita Suite" (Cables) - 6:33
  9. "All the Things You Are
    All the Things You Are
    "All the Things You Are" is a song composed by Jerome Kern, with lyrics written by Oscar Hammerstein II.It was written for the musical Very Warm for May , where it was introduced by Hiram Sherman, Frances Mercer, Hollace Shaw, and Ralph Stuart...

    " - (Hammerstein, Kern) - 6:18

Personnel

  • George Cables
    George Cables
    George Andrew Cables is a jazz pianist, born November 14, 1944 in New York City.He has played with Art Blakey, Sonny Rollins, Dexter Gordon, Art Pepper, and others.His own recordings include the 1980 Cables Vision with Freddie Hubbard among others....

     - piano
  • Peter Washington
    Peter Washington
    Peter Washington is a jazz double bassist. He initially played classical bass and played with the Westchester Community Symphony at 14. Later he worked with electric bass and in rock bands. He went on to study English at the University of California, Berkeley...

     - bass
  • Kenny Washington
    Kenny Washington (musician)
    Kenny Washington is a jazz drummer born in Staten Island, New York.He studied at the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts...

    - drums
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