Sir George Albert Shearing OBE (13 August 1919 – 14 February 2011) was a British jazz pianist who for many years led a popular jazz group that recorded...

popular song composed by George Shearing with lyrics by George David Weiss (under the pseudonym "B. Y. Forster"). George Shearing wrote "Lullaby of Birdland"...

Hip Chicks (1945), Mary Lou Williams (1946), Charlie Ventura (1946), George Shearing (from 1949 to 1950), and led her own groups, including a trio, which...

with George Shearing & Mel Tormé is a live album by Mel Tormé, accompanied by George Shearing. It was the first of six albums that Tormé and Shearing recorded...

opposed to broken chords. This latter style, known as shearing voicing, was popularized by George Shearing, but originated with Phil Moore. Block chord style...

was introduced to British pianist George Shearing by bassist Al McKibbon. He spent the next twelve years with Shearing, a collaboration that put Peraza...

be said to have been "shorn", "sheared" or "shore" [in Australia]). The annual shearing most often occurs in a shearing shed, a facility especially designed...

George Shearing Quintet. With Shearing, he added whistling to his repertoire. While Thielemans was playing in Hamburg in 1960 on tour with Shearing,...

Shearing is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Dinah Shearing (1928–2021), Australian actress George Shearing (1919–2011), British jazz...

Nat King Cole Sings/George Shearing Plays is a 1962 studio album by Nat King Cole, featuring the pianist George Shearing. Containing new arrangements of...

numerous jazz pianists prior to Shearing, such as Phil Moore, Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Red Garland. Shearing said he was first exposed to it through...

"Conception" is a 1950 jazz standard written by George Shearing in the bebop style. The composition is in the key of Db and is noticeable for its chromatic...

with You (1998) & The Magic of Christmas (1999) George Shearing - Christmas with the George Shearing Quintet (1998) Michael W. Smith (duet with Sandi...

Johnson in the Johnson/Montgomery Quintet, somewhat in the style of George Shearing. The band auditioned for Arthur Godfrey and recorded sessions with...

dance band, the Four Tune Tellers. He was influenced at this time by George Shearing and Meade Lux Lewis. He also took up acting in a troupe called the...

Birdland" (1952) — under the pseudonym "B. Y. Forster", with music by George Shearing "Mr. Wonderful" (1955) — co-written by Jerry Bock and Lawrence Holofcener...

the Jazz Crusaders were formed. He has worked with Arthur Fiedler, George Shearing, B.B. King, Grant Green, Grover Washington Jr., Quincy Jones, Marvin...

Parker Dexterity (Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons album), 1981 Dexterity (George Shearing album), 1988 Dexterity Island, Nunavut, Canada The dexterity attribute...

McRae-Betty Carter Duets (1987), being accompanied by Dave Brubeck and George Shearing, and closing her career with tributes to Thelonious Monk, Carmen Sings...

sidemen during the late 1940s through the 1950s; and the works of George Shearing and Stan Getz. The output of modern players who eschewed bebop in favor...

described as "rendezvous of the bebop crowd." She was accompanied by George Shearing on piano, Oscar Pettiford on double bass, and Kenny Clarke on drums...

the decade, and in the 1950s he played with Oscar Pettiford (1951), George Shearing (1951–1953), Howard McGhee, and Artie Shaw and his Gramercy Five (1953–1954)...

disappointment. ...Shearing planned to revisit his roots in Dixieland and swing but he hedged his bets. Despite having an impressive septet...Shearing wrote out...

George Shearing, Cal Tjader, Herbie Nichols and Hawkins. McKibbon was credited with interesting Tjader in Latin music while he played in Shearing's group...

Groove Yard Riverside 1961 1961 George Shearing and the Montgomery Brothers Jazzland 1961 Co-leader with George Shearing. Reissued as Love Walked In (Jazzland...

several hit singles during the 1960s, including "Let There Be Love" with George Shearing in 1961, the country-flavored hit "Ramblin' Rose" in August 1962 (reaching...

1990s he performed often with George Shearing, recording six albums together for Concord Records. About this period Shearing wrote: It is impossible to imagine...

Evans is one of the most refreshing pianists I have heard in years.—George Shearing I think Bill Evans is one of the finest.—Ahmad Jamal Bill Evans has...

The Paris Review. Spring 2008: 63. Zwerin, Mike (August 17, 1995). "George Shearing at 76:Still Holding His Own". International Herald Tribune. Archived...

George Shearing. Scott Yanow reviewed the album for AllMusic and wrote that "The emphasis is on slower tempos and relaxed improvising but Shearing's distinctive...