In Good Company / Cables, Essiet, Lewis

George Cables

When the classical composer Paul Dukas wrote, "In every beautiful work, it is the man the work expresses that counts first and foremost," he could not have known he was describing the art of George Cables. One of the world's greatest jazz pianists – one who helped define the sound of the instrument as we know it today – Cables has been making unostentatious music at the keyboard for decades. In Good Company, though focusing on people Cables knew in the past, is not a tribute album. Rather, it is a series of personal reminiscences from the keyboard. It looks back in time for its inspiration, but not in its musical vocabulary for George Cables' playing remains as fresh and as surprising as the front page of tomorrow's newspaper. With musical compadres Essiet Okon Essiet and Victor Lewis, Cables explores the music of Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, John Hicks and offers a couple of his own intensely interesting compositions.

Price: $24.98