To, in his words, a "partner and soulmate of 28 years." While he never reaches the jaw dropping intensity here that he was fervently spurred to by Art Pepper or Dexter Gordon during the 1970s, neither does it seem to be his goal on what is largely a concept album a dedication to love and love lost. A pianist who often seems to hold little patience for slow paced, somber ballads, he tends to find an almost magical way to add tenderness to a song while playing at blistering speed. This is understandable though, after listening through Cables' preceding four decades of music. My Muse is less an elegy for love, and more of a celebration of its existence. This is not the case however, for pianist George Cables. When an artist records music less than two years after losing his wife of nearly three decades to pancreatic cancer, it is generally assumed that the resulting album will have an overall melancholic, funereal sound.
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