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I Mean You (album)

album by George Cables

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 25, 2025
Entity authorityQ30603956 ↗
Source-derived summary

I Mean You is an album by pianist George Cables recorded in 1993 and released on the Danish label, SteepleChase.

Reception

Scott Yanow of AllMusic stated, "Cables has long been underrated and he has been heard in a variety of settings through the years. This is one of his best boppish dates".

Track listing

All compositions by George Cables except where noted.

Editorial summary

“I Mean You (album)” enters the record as album by George Cables. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Mean, album and George can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1993—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1994. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Mean, album and George.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“I Mean You (album)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Mean, album and George provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 25, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q30603956. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1993.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “I Mean You (album)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.