{"id":8002,"date":"2016-11-28T17:19:05","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T01:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=8002"},"modified":"2016-11-28T17:29:49","modified_gmt":"2016-11-29T01:29:49","slug":"monday-recommendation-george-cables-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2016\/11\/monday-recommendation-george-cables-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Recommendation: George Cables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>George Cables<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2gcdWa7\" target=\"_blank&quot;\">The George Cables Songbook<\/a> (High Note)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8003\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/71YcBtYvbHL._SX522_-e1480382139620.jpg\" alt=\"71ycbtyvbhl-_sx522_\" width=\"210\" height=\"210\" \/>As he awaits news about a second kidney transplant, health problems haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t affected Cables\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 fleetness and lyricism at the piano. Most of the compositions here are new, although his celebrated \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Think On Me\u00e2\u20ac\u009d dates to 1968 and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Dark The Light\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to 1975. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Think On Me\u00e2\u20ac\u009d has a new lyric by Sarah Elizabeth Charles, who also wrote and sings words to four other Cables pieces. Her voice is light and sweet. She phrases well and sings in tune. Supported by the regular members of his trio, bassist Essiet Essiet and drummer Victor Lewis, Cables is joined on some of Ms. Charles\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s numbers by saxophonist Craig Handy and percussionist Steven Kroon. Handy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s shining solo moment is on \u00e2\u20ac\u0153For Honey Lulu.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d With the trio, Cables adopts the harmonic structure of a certain omnipresent John Coltrane piece and dances through what he calls \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Baby Steps.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Cables, The George Cables Songbook (High Note) As he awaits news about a second kidney transplant, health problems haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t affected Cables\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 fleetness and lyricism at the piano. Most of the compositions here are new, although his celebrated \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Think On Me\u00e2\u20ac\u009d dates to 1968 and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Dark The Light\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to 1975. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Think On Me\u00e2\u20ac\u009d has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8002","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-recommendations","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}