George Cables News

Kind of Blue Records When George Cables sat at a bright red Steinway at the Society for Ethical Culture during the 2008 JVC Jazz Festival this past June and played his first notes of the evening, it was ...

Cecil Taylor , octogenarian free-jazz originator and pianist nonpareil, played an hour-long solo set Friday night alongside fellow keyboardist George Cables at the Society of Ethical Culture as a part of the ...

Now, about that red piano: Charles Bourgeois, the longtime integral member of George Wein's Festival Productions, which produces the ongoing JVC Jazz Festival, told The New York Sun that the company simply ...

The summer jazz festival season is upon us, and as usual, the JVC Jazz Festival New York will be the most visible.

Art Pepper's widow, Laurie , started the Widow's Taste label to give more of the saxophonist/clarinetist to his fans and to introduce him to those as yet uninitiated.

The 2008 JVC Jazz Festival New York, produced by The Festival Network, LLC , presents a "festival within the festival" at the Concert Hall at the New York Society for Ethical Culture , 2 West 64th Street at ...

Jay Thomas will bring his Sextet to perform at the Bellevue Jazz Club at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 13. via The Bellevue Reporter

Jimmy Scott, the greatest individual male vocal jazz stylist in the last 60 years, returns to the Jazz Bakery, through Saturday. via City Beat

George Cables doesn't get talked about too much anymore. Although he was prominent enough in the 70s to play with Art Blakey, Joe Henderson, and Freddie Hubbard, he has since disappeared somewhat from the ... via All About Jazz

Garrison Fewell/ Eric Hofbauer Creative Nation Music I wouldn't normally go for an album of guitar improvisation, but from the first notes the abstracted beauty of this duet session from Boston-area guitarists ... via All About Jazz

In today's New York Times critic Nate Chinen wrote a familiar story about musicians without health insurance. via Chicago Reader Online

CDs of previously unreleased "live" performances by pianists Mary Lou Williams and George Cables and a CD/DVD of saxophonist Eric Alexander leading a quartet in concert are set for March 4th release by HighNote ... via All About Jazz

Byron L. "Butch" Berman, 58, veteran of many Lincoln rock bands and founder of the Berman Music Foundation, died at home Thursday evening after a four-month struggle with brain cancer. via Lincoln Journal Star

The esteemed jazz pianist George Cables recently underwent a double transplant operation, receiving a new liver and kidney. via Straight No Chaser

The great jazz pianist George Cables recently underwent a double-transplant operation, receiving a new liver and kidney. via All About Jazz