![]() ![]() I used to watch people like Coleman Hawkins come in-with his big beard! I was able to go see Thelonious Monk and Charles Mingus and people like that. When I was 18, I used to go to the Five Spot, because in New York, the legal age was 18. I went to a High School of Performing Arts and studied there, of course you had to have a private teacher, and then I went to Mannes College of Music as a piano major.īut I was just starting to dabble and get familiar with the music. GC: Oh, yeah, I was playing classical music for a while. I was listening to Bird when I was 8, or 13, or something.” But all this stuff was new to me when I was 15 or 17 years old, so I was playing catch-up a lot of the time.Įthan Iverson: But you have such good technique, I have a feeling you must have gotten pretty far in classical studies. I remember people I played with saying, “Yeah, man when I was a kid I used to listen to my Grandma, my father’s records. The music that I’m involved with now, jazz, was not in my vocabulary, it wasn’t in the house. Before then, actually, I used to watch my mother play in the house, and I used to try to reach up to the piano to play. I started playing piano when I was about six or so. Albans, where we were through my high school years. I took a year off, and then I went to Mannes College of Music, although I left after two years. George Cables: I was born in Brooklyn, NY, in the Brooklyn hospital on November 14, 1944, the first half of the last century! The first nine years were in Brooklyn: the first seven years were on Gates Avenue between Franklin and Classon Avenues, and then the next few years on Chauncey Street between Ralph and Howard, and then we moved to St. Thanks to Martin Porter for transcribing the interview. The following is general discussion, the second part is a look through his whole discography. I learned a lot in a very short time at the Stanford Jazz Workshop two years ago when George sat in with Reid Anderson and Dave King for a swinging version of “Alone Together.” At his house after the interview he played a bit as well. While George is perhaps best known as a sideman, he has an extensive list of distinctive compositions and is also marvelous trio pianist. His home is filled with posters documenting a remarkable history in jazz. I went out to George’s house last August. ![]()
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