George Shearing

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Guilty 03:14 Tools
Lullaby of Birdland 02:45 Tools
Guilty - 2001 Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
Guilty - 2001 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
September in the Rain 03:16 Tools
Guilty - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Pick Yourself Up 02:53 Tools
I Didn't Know What Time It Was 00:00 Tools
I'll Remember April 02:46 Tools
This Can't Be Love 00:00 Tools
Aquarius 00:00 Tools
Midnight In The Air 00:00 Tools
It Never Entered My Mind 00:00 Tools
Reverie 04:53 Tools
If I Should Lose You 00:00 Tools
Conception 00:00 Tools
East of the Sun (And West of the Moon) 00:00 Tools
Summertime 00:00 Tools
In The Night - 2003 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
I'll Be Around 00:00 Tools
Like Someone In Love 00:00 Tools
Easy Living 00:00 Tools
Love Is Just Around the Corner 00:00 Tools
Jumpin' With Symphony Sid 00:00 Tools
Have You Met Miss Jones? 00:00 Tools
Autumn Leaves 02:31 Tools
East Of The Sun 00:00 Tools
My Favorite Things 02:59 Tools
How High the Moon 00:00 Tools
Tenderly 00:00 Tools
The Nearness Of You 02:53 Tools
Mambo Inn 00:00 Tools
Little White Lies 00:00 Tools
Lonely Moments 00:00 Tools
On the Street Where You Live 02:53 Tools
Stella by Starlight 00:00 Tools
My Funny Valentine 00:00 Tools
I Wished on the Moon 00:00 Tools
Guilty (2001 digital remaster) 00:00 Tools
Sweet and Lovely 00:00 Tools
Guilty (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Snowfall / Snowfall Cha-Cha - Remix 00:00 Tools
Love Walked In 00:00 Tools
What's New 02:40 Tools
Darn That Dream 00:00 Tools
Caravan 00:00 Tools
Let There Be Love 00:00 Tools
Sophisticated Lady 00:00 Tools
Yesterdays 00:00 Tools
In The Still Of The Night 00:00 Tools
Laura 02:55 Tools
When Darkness Falls 00:00 Tools
Summer Song 00:00 Tools
It Might as Well Be Spring 00:00 Tools
Here, There and Everywhere 00:00 Tools
How Deep Is The Ocean 00:00 Tools
Snowfall / Snowfall Cha-Cha (Medley) - Remix 00:00 Tools
Satin Doll 00:00 Tools
A Tune for Humming 00:00 Tools
The Mood Is Mellow 00:00 Tools
Dreamsville (Live) 00:00 Tools
Guilty (2001 Remastered Version) 00:00 Tools
What Is This Thing Called Love 00:00 Tools
You're My Everything 00:00 Tools
Have You Met Miss Jones 00:00 Tools
My Silent Love 00:00 Tools
Don't Explain 00:00 Tools
Bop's Your Uncle 00:00 Tools
Friendly Persuasion (Thee I Love) 00:00 Tools
Call Me Irresponsible 00:00 Tools
Taking A Chance On Love 00:00 Tools
On The Street Where You Live - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Lullaby In Rhythm 00:00 Tools
Wonder Why 00:00 Tools
In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning 00:00 Tools
High on a Windy Hill 00:00 Tools
For Every Man There's a Woman 00:00 Tools
The Entertainer 00:00 Tools
When Sunny Gets Blue 00:00 Tools
Sweet Lorraine 00:00 Tools
The Things We Did Last Summer 00:00 Tools
Out of Nowhere 00:00 Tools
Cozy's Bop 00:00 Tools
When I Fall In Love 00:00 Tools
The Folks Who Live On The Hill 00:00 Tools
A Time For Love 00:00 Tools
Can't We Be Friends? 00:00 Tools
Wave 00:00 Tools
Confirmation 00:00 Tools
I Cover The Waterfront 00:00 Tools
Moon over Miami 00:00 Tools
The Continental 00:00 Tools
If 00:00 Tools
Makin' Whoopee 00:00 Tools
Memories Of You 00:00 Tools
You Are The Sunshine Of My Life 04:02 Tools
Beautiful Love 00:00 Tools
Sigh No More 00:00 Tools
Ghost of a Chance 00:00 Tools
A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody 00:00 Tools
So Rare 00:00 Tools
What Is This Thing Called Love? 00:00 Tools
Con Alma 00:00 Tools
Ghoti 00:00 Tools
Sorry Wrong Rhumba 00:00 Tools
Early Autumn 00:00 Tools
Black Satin 00:00 Tools
Easy to Love 00:00 Tools
Kinlling Me Softly 00:00 Tools
One Note Samba (Samba De Una Nota So) 00:00 Tools
Fly Me To The Moon 03:32 Tools
Aquarius (Todd Terje Tangoterje Re-Edit) 00:00 Tools
Snowfall / Snowfall Cha-Cha 00:00 Tools
Can't We Be Friends 00:00 Tools
Autumn in New York 00:00 Tools
Someone To Watch Over Me 00:00 Tools
Cheek to Cheek 00:00 Tools
Bop, Look And Listen 00:00 Tools
After You've Gone 00:00 Tools
More Than You Know 00:00 Tools
Heart Of Winter 00:00 Tools
I'll Never Smile Again 00:00 Tools
The Skye Boat Song 00:00 Tools
They All Laughed 00:00 Tools
September Song 00:00 Tools
G & G 00:00 Tools
It Could Happen To You 00:00 Tools
Snowfall/Snowfall Cha-Cha 04:26 Tools
Dream 03:20 Tools
Bernie's Tune 00:00 Tools
Moon Ray 00:00 Tools
Emily 00:00 Tools
You Stepped out of a Dream 03:20 Tools
Coquette 00:00 Tools
Killing Me Softly With His Song 00:00 Tools
Cuban Love Song 00:00 Tools
The Lamp Is Low 00:00 Tools
Too Close For Comfort 00:00 Tools
The Girl Next Door 00:00 Tools
Aquarius (The Maxwell Implosion Remix) 00:00 Tools
Time After time 00:00 Tools
Rosetta 00:00 Tools
Roses Of Picardy 00:00 Tools
Love for Sale 00:00 Tools
Dancing on the Ceiling 00:00 Tools
Michelle 02:52 Tools
So Would I 00:00 Tools
Cheryl 00:00 Tools
Buccaneer's Bounce 00:00 Tools
One Note Samba 00:00 Tools
That Old Devil Called Love 00:00 Tools
Estampa Cubana 00:00 Tools
Blue Moon 00:00 Tools
It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing 00:00 Tools
Alone Together 00:00 Tools
Jordu 00:00 Tools
You Don't Know What Love Is 00:00 Tools
If I Had You 00:00 Tools
Subconsciouslee 00:00 Tools
Symphony 00:00 Tools
Away In A Manger 00:00 Tools
No Moon At All 00:00 Tools
Stardust 00:00 Tools
I'll Take Romance 00:00 Tools
These Foolish Things 00:00 Tools
Children's Waltz 00:00 Tools
Snowfall 00:00 Tools
I'll Never Let a Day Pass By 00:00 Tools
Let There Be Love - 2003 - Remastered 00:00 Tools
All Too Soon 00:00 Tools
Midnight On Cloud 9 00:00 Tools
A Foggy Day 00:00 Tools
Blues In 9/4 00:00 Tools
On Green Dolphin Street 00:00 Tools
Poinciana 00:00 Tools
For You 00:00 Tools
I Hear Music 00:00 Tools
Blue Prelude 00:00 Tools
Consternation 00:00 Tools
East of the Sun - West of the Moon 00:00 Tools
Gone With The Wind 00:00 Tools
How Beautiful Is Night 00:00 Tools
There'll Be Another Spring 00:00 Tools
Snowfall / Snowfall Cha-Cha (Medley) (Remix) 00:00 Tools
What Kind Of Fool Am I 00:00 Tools
Later 00:00 Tools
When Lights Are Low 00:00 Tools
When Your Lover Has Gone 00:00 Tools
Serenata 00:00 Tools
Stranger In Paradise 00:00 Tools
Over The Rainbow 00:00 Tools
Kinda Cute 00:00 Tools
While We're Young 00:00 Tools
Nothing Ever Changes My Love For You 00:00 Tools
Lois Ann 00:00 Tools
Cali Mambo 00:00 Tools
Some Other Spring 00:00 Tools
No Hard Feelings 00:00 Tools
Desafinado 00:00 Tools
Squeezin' the Blues 00:00 Tools
Loose Leaf 00:00 Tools
Enchanted 00:00 Tools
Nobody Else But Me 00:00 Tools
Promises, Promises 00:00 Tools
Basie's Masement 00:00 Tools
Mambo Caribe 00:00 Tools
Canadian Sunset 02:58 Tools
Mack The Knife 04:40 Tools
A Ship Without A Sail 00:00 Tools
How High the Moon? 00:00 Tools
Homesick, That's All 00:00 Tools
Eleanor Rigby 00:00 Tools
The End Of A Love Affair 00:00 Tools
Stomp In F 00:00 Tools
The Days Of Wine And Roses 00:00 Tools
Love Story 00:00 Tools
The Summer Knows 00:00 Tools
I Hear A Rhapsody 00:00 Tools
It Had To Be You 00:00 Tools
Sand in My Shoes 00:00 Tools
Body And Soul 00:00 Tools
Estampa Cubano 00:00 Tools
The Shadow of Your Smile 04:45 Tools
On The Sunny Side Of The Street 00:00 Tools
Yesterday 00:00 Tools
It's Easy to Remember 00:00 Tools
Angel Eyes 00:00 Tools
Change Partners 00:00 Tools
Carnegie Horizons 00:00 Tools
It's Only a Paper Moon 00:00 Tools
Heart And Soul 00:00 Tools
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! 00:00 Tools
Misty 02:40 Tools
Too Late Now 00:00 Tools
Spookie Woogie 00:00 Tools
Strangers In The Night 02:12 Tools
I Don't Stand A Ghost Of A Chance With You 00:00 Tools
Mambo In Miami 00:00 Tools
Isn't It Romantic 00:00 Tools
Sleigh Ride 00:00 Tools
Who Can I Turn To? 00:00 Tools
An Affair to Remember 00:00 Tools
Waltz For Claudia 00:00 Tools
The Thrill Is Gone 00:00 Tools
Mambo In Chimes 00:00 Tools
In The Night 00:00 Tools
Little Niles 00:00 Tools
Nevermore 00:00 Tools
One Morning in May 00:00 Tools
Autumn Serenade 00:00 Tools
I Could Write A Book 00:00 Tools
All Night Long 00:00 Tools
Zingaro (Live) 00:00 Tools
The Thrill Is Gone - 2003 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Come Rain or Come Shine 00:00 Tools
How Long Has This Been Going On 00:00 Tools
Wail (Live) 00:00 Tools
How Come You Do Me Like You Do 00:00 Tools
East of the Sun (West of the Moon) 00:00 Tools
Samba da Borboleta (Butterfly Samba) 00:00 Tools
I Found a New Boogie 00:00 Tools
Moonray 00:00 Tools
How Insensitive 00:00 Tools
The Way We Were 00:00 Tools
To The Ends Of The Earth 00:00 Tools
And Then I Wrote 00:00 Tools
P.S. I Love You 00:00 Tools
In the Night (In the Night) 00:00 Tools
Old Folks 00:00 Tools
Softly as in a Morning Sunrise 00:00 Tools
I Hear A Rhapsody (Live) 00:00 Tools
Happy Days Are Here Again 00:00 Tools
If I Should Lose You - 1996 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Girl Talk 00:00 Tools
Mambo No. 2 00:00 Tools
Cuban Fantasy 00:00 Tools
Wonder Struck 00:00 Tools
Pensativa 00:00 Tools
Cherokee 00:00 Tools
You and the Night and the Music 00:00 Tools
The Fourth Deuce 00:00 Tools
Stablemates 00:00 Tools
How's Trix? 00:00 Tools
There's a Small Hotel 00:00 Tools
Out Of This World 00:00 Tools
Jump for Joy 00:00 Tools
Amazona's Legend 00:00 Tools
Young And Foolish 00:00 Tools
Tenderly (Piano Solo) 00:00 Tools
Bluesette 00:00 Tools
Giant Steps 00:00 Tools
I Remember You 02:42 Tools
Algo Novo 00:00 Tools
Moonlight Becomes You 00:00 Tools
Do You Know The Way To San Jose 00:00 Tools
Pensativa (Pensive Woman) 00:00 Tools
Rondo 00:00 Tools
Dinah 00:00 Tools
The Story Of Love 00:00 Tools
The Moon Was Yellow 00:00 Tools
Manha De Carnaval (Morning of the Carnival) 00:00 Tools
Tricotism 00:00 Tools
Midnight Sun 00:00 Tools
Stella By Starlight - 2001 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Hallucinations 00:00 Tools
Double Deal 00:00 Tools
To A Wild Rose 00:00 Tools
The World Is A Ghetto 00:00 Tools
Send In The Clowns 00:00 Tools
Superstar 00:00 Tools
Changing With The Times 00:00 Tools
Wait Till You See Her 00:00 Tools
I Only Have Eyes for You 00:00 Tools
There Is No Greater Love 00:00 Tools
Strollin' 00:00 Tools
Don't Get Around Much Anymore 00:00 Tools
Alone Again (Naturally) 00:00 Tools
Tu, Mi Delirio 00:00 Tools
East Of The Sun And West Of The Moon 00:00 Tools
Moonlight in Vermont 03:27 Tools
As I Love You 00:00 Tools
The Christmas Waltz 00:00 Tools
Baubles, Bangles and Beads 00:00 Tools
Take Five 00:00 Tools
Midnight on Cloud 69 00:00 Tools
'Round Midnight 00:00 Tools
Straighten Up And Fly Right (live) 00:00 Tools
Killing Me Softly 00:00 Tools
Midnight Mood 00:00 Tools
Prelude To A Kiss 00:00 Tools
It's Not for Me to Say 00:00 Tools
Life With Feather 00:00 Tools
To Be Or Not To Bop 00:00 Tools
The Late, Late Show 00:00 Tools
Nola 00:00 Tools
Minoration 00:00 Tools
Lost April 00:00 Tools
Winter Wonderland 00:00 Tools
Pawn Ticket 00:00 Tools
Falling In Love With You Again 00:00 Tools
Time On My Hands 00:00 Tools
Some Time Ago 00:00 Tools
I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good) 00:00 Tools
As Long As There's Music 00:00 Tools
The Shadow Of Your Smile/Days Of Wine And Roses (Medley) 04:44 Tools
Easy 00:00 Tools
This Is All I Ask 00:00 Tools
Try a Little Tenderness 00:00 Tools
Mambo Belahu 00:00 Tools
Juana Palangana 00:00 Tools
Thine Alone 00:00 Tools
Southern Fried 00:00 Tools
Isn't It Romantic? 00:00 Tools
You Came A Long Way From St. Louis 00:00 Tools
Windows 00:00 Tools
Honeysuckle Rose 00:00 Tools
Soon It's Gonna Rain 00:00 Tools
Cotton Top 00:00 Tools
We'll Be Together Again 00:00 Tools
All Or Nothing At All 00:00 Tools
Good To The Last Bop 00:00 Tools
A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square 00:00 Tools
Nocturne 00:00 Tools
Starlight Souvenirs 00:00 Tools
George in Brazil 00:00 Tools
April In Paris 05:13 Tools
Welcome To My Dream 00:00 Tools
(Passos Gigantes) Giant Steps 00:00 Tools
I'm Lost 00:00 Tools
Delayed Action 00:00 Tools
Lulu's Back in Town 00:00 Tools
All of You 00:00 Tools
Anywhere 00:00 Tools
My Ship 00:00 Tools
Moon Song 00:00 Tools
Daisy 00:00 Tools
Summertime (Piano Solo) 00:00 Tools
Gee Baby, Ain't I Good To You 00:00 Tools
I Wish You Love 02:34 Tools
Everything Happens To Me 00:00 Tools
Emily - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
White Christmas 00:00 Tools
Horizon (Live) 00:00 Tools
Let's Call the Whole Thing Off 00:00 Tools
Born To Be Blue 00:00 Tools
I'd Love To Make Love To You 00:00 Tools
Senor Blues 00:00 Tools
The Man From Minton's 00:00 Tools
If Dreams Come True 00:00 Tools
Your Name Is Love 00:00 Tools
The Nearness Of You (Feat. Nancy Wilson) 00:00 Tools
The Masquerade Is Over 00:00 Tools
When A Woman Loves A Man 00:00 Tools
Simplicity 00:00 Tools
What Is There To Say 00:00 Tools
This is Africa 00:00 Tools
500 Miles High 00:00 Tools
Geneva's Move 00:00 Tools
Magic 00:00 Tools
How Could You 00:00 Tools
What the World Needs Now Is Love 00:00 Tools
Bop Look And Listen 00:00 Tools
Blue Malibu 00:00 Tools
The Party's Over 00:00 Tools
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen 00:00 Tools
Two For the Road 00:00 Tools
I'll Be Home for Christmas 00:00 Tools
You're All I Need 00:00 Tools
Strange 00:00 Tools
In the Blue of the Evening 00:00 Tools
Joy Spring 00:00 Tools
Tune Up 00:00 Tools
Basic English 00:00 Tools
The Girl From Ipanema 00:00 Tools
I Predict 00:00 Tools
I Can't Get Started 00:00 Tools
How Could You? 00:00 Tools
Yours Is My Heart Alone 00:00 Tools
Here's That Rainy Day 00:00 Tools
Twelve Tone Blues 00:00 Tools
Bernie's Tune (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Alfie 00:00 Tools
I Remember Clifford 00:00 Tools
To Hank Jones 00:00 Tools
Tonight We Love 00:00 Tools
Aquarius (The Maxwell Implosio 00:00 Tools
Why Did I Choose You? 00:00 Tools
Overnight Hop 00:00 Tools
Missouri Scrambler 00:00 Tools
Donkey Carol 00:00 Tools
If You Were Mine 00:00 Tools
Sleepy Manhattan 00:00 Tools
Oh! Look at Me Now 00:00 Tools
It's Christmas Time 00:00 Tools
Wendy 00:00 Tools
Blame It On My Youth 00:00 Tools
Mambo No.2 00:00 Tools
Lullababy Of Birdland 00:00 Tools
New Orleans 00:00 Tools
Undecided 00:00 Tools
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas 00:00 Tools
My Romance 00:00 Tools
Dreamsville 00:00 Tools
You Are Too Beautiful (Piano Solo) 00:00 Tools
Homesick-That's All 00:00 Tools
Chelsea Bridge 00:00 Tools
Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child 00:00 Tools
A Beautiful Friendship 00:00 Tools
The Man I Love 00:00 Tools
You Are There 00:00 Tools
Lazy Afternoon 00:00 Tools
Old Devil Moon 00:00 Tools
Be Careful, It's My Heart 00:00 Tools
On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever) 00:00 Tools
Greensleeves 00:00 Tools
Ghost Of Yesterday 00:00 Tools
People 00:00 Tools
November Seascape 00:00 Tools
Cowboy Samba 00:00 Tools
Love's Melody 00:00 Tools
Señor Blues 00:00 Tools
I'll Close My Eyes 00:00 Tools
Moose The Mooche 00:00 Tools
Stairway to the Stars 00:00 Tools
High and Inside 00:00 Tools
Isn't This a Lovely Day 00:00 Tools
I Won't Dance 00:00 Tools
Thinking Of You 00:00 Tools
Walkin' 00:00 Tools
Long Ago and Far Away 00:00 Tools
The Thrill Is Gone (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Peace 00:00 Tools
Sunrise Serenade 00:00 Tools
The Christmas Song 00:00 Tools
Perfidia 00:00 Tools
Day Dream 00:00 Tools
Night Flight 00:00 Tools
Blue Lou 00:00 Tools
Nothing but de Best 00:00 Tools
That's What She Says 00:00 Tools
You Look Like Someone 00:00 Tools
In a Sentimental Mood 00:00 Tools
The Starlit Hour 00:00 Tools
By the Time I Get to Phoenix 00:00 Tools
Cloudy Morning 00:00 Tools
Sweet Georgie Fame 00:00 Tools
Londonderry Air 00:00 Tools
Touch Me Softly 00:00 Tools
Ding Dong Merrily On High 00:00 Tools
Don't Sleep In the Subway 00:00 Tools
It's You Or No One 00:00 Tools
Strolling 00:00 Tools
Inspiration 00:00 Tools
From Rags To Richards 00:00 Tools
Country Gardens 00:00 Tools
Autumn Nocturne 00:00 Tools
Speak Low 00:00 Tools
September In The Rain (Live) 00:00 Tools
It Might As Well Be Spring - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Don't Call Me 00:00 Tools
Whisper Not 00:00 Tools
Bags Groove (live) 00:00 Tools
John O'Groats 00:00 Tools
My One and Only Love 00:00 Tools
Last Night When We Were Young 00:00 Tools
Burnished Brass 00:00 Tools
These Things You Left Me 00:00 Tools
I Like to Recognise the Tune 00:00 Tools
Brasil '79 00:00 Tools
Confessin' The Blues 00:00 Tools
Guilty (2001 Remaster) 00:00 Tools
Amaryllis 00:00 Tools
Lullaby of Birdland - Original Version 00:00 Tools
Cuckoo In The Clock 00:00 Tools
Goin' Out Of My Head 00:00 Tools
Gentleman Friend 00:00 Tools
Put Your Little Foot 00:00 Tools
Mine 00:00 Tools
Confessin' The Blues - 2003 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Invitation 00:00 Tools
Swedish Pastry 00:00 Tools
It Might As Well Be Spring (live) 00:00 Tools
I Lost My Sugar in Salt Lake City 00:00 Tools
Dearly Beloved 00:00 Tools
Jumpin' With Syphony Sid 00:00 Tools
Imitations 00:00 Tools
Triste 00:00 Tools
Please Send Me Someone to Love 00:00 Tools
Quintessence 00:00 Tools
In A Chinese Garden Part 2 00:00 Tools
Wail 00:00 Tools
Opus for Mozart 00:00 Tools
Goodnight, My Love 00:00 Tools
This Couldn't Be the Real Thing 00:00 Tools
To Tommy Flanagan 00:00 Tools
Straighten Up and Fly Right 00:00 Tools
Trunk Call 00:00 Tools
There's a Lull In My Life 00:00 Tools
Blue Island Blues 00:00 Tools
Azure-Te 00:00 Tools
Gee Baby, Aint I Good To You 00:00 Tools
Oh, You Crazy Moon 00:00 Tools
Nightfall 00:00 Tools
In Your Own Sweet Way 00:00 Tools
Happiness Is A Thing Called Joe 00:00 Tools
Alice In Wonderland 00:00 Tools
You're Driving Me Crazy 00:00 Tools
Bluesette (Digitally Remastered 02) 00:00 Tools
The Sheik Of Araby 00:00 Tools
One for the Woofer 00:00 Tools
Four Bars Short 00:00 Tools
Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words) 00:00 Tools
Always True to You in My Fashion 00:00 Tools
The Best Thing for You 00:00 Tools
Miss Invisible 00:00 Tools
How Come You Do Me Like You Do? 00:00 Tools
Ding Dong! Merrily On High 00:00 Tools
From Rags To Richards - 2003 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Birdfeathers 00:00 Tools
(I'm Left With The) Blues In My Heart 00:00 Tools
Star Eyes 00:00 Tools
My Little Anna 00:00 Tools
Without You 00:00 Tools
All This And Heaven Too 00:00 Tools
East of the Sun (And West of the Moon) (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Blue Monk 00:00 Tools
With Feeling 00:00 Tools
Sweet Sue 00:00 Tools
The Singing Song 00:00 Tools
Don't Go 00:00 Tools
Just Squeeze Me (But Don't Tease Me) 00:00 Tools
The Duke (Live) 00:00 Tools
Deep Night 00:00 Tools
I´ll Be Around 00:00 Tools
Bags' Groove 00:00 Tools
Tricrotism 00:00 Tools
Bebop's Fables 00:00 Tools
Jive Bomber 00:00 Tools
Jump for Joy Blue 00:00 Tools
No Greater Love 00:00 Tools
Ask Me Now 00:00 Tools
Lullaby Of Birdland (George Shearing) 00:00 Tools
Jackie's Mambo 00:00 Tools
Very Early 00:00 Tools
How Long Has This Been Going On? 00:00 Tools
Dear Heart 00:00 Tools
Night And Day 00:00 Tools
The Wine Of May 00:00 Tools
Things Ain't What They Used to Be 00:00 Tools
Dream Dancing 00:00 Tools
Zingaro 00:00 Tools
The Thrill Is Gone (2003 Digital Remaster) 00:00 Tools
Just Imagine 00:00 Tools
Let's Live Again 00:00 Tools
Beat Me Daddy, Eight To The Bar 00:00 Tools
Portrait Of Jennie 00:00 Tools
Bewitched 00:00 Tools
Balulalow 00:00 Tools
Young No More 00:00 Tools
Baubles Bangles And Beads 00:00 Tools
This Time The Dream's On Me 00:00 Tools
Strange Enchantment 00:00 Tools
Time On My Hands (You In My Arms) 00:00 Tools
Guilty (24-Bit Mastering 01) (2001 Digital Remaster) 00:00 Tools
For Every Man There's A Woman - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Break Out the Blues 00:00 Tools
Easy - 2003 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Watch Your Step 00:00 Tools
Am I Blue? 00:00 Tools
First Floor Please 00:00 Tools
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes 00:00 Tools
Evansville 00:00 Tools
Drume Negrita 00:00 Tools
Subconcious Lee 00:00 Tools
Just Plain Bill 00:00 Tools
Take a Good Look 00:00 Tools
Oleo 00:00 Tools
Without Words 00:00 Tools
Life With Father 00:00 Tools
There Will Never Be Another You 00:00 Tools
Brian's Song 00:00 Tools
In A Chinese Garden Part 1 00:00 Tools
Afraid Of You 00:00 Tools
In a Calm 00:00 Tools
Duke Ellington Medley 00:00 Tools
Lady Byrd 00:00 Tools
Chasing Shadows 00:00 Tools
(I'm Left With The) Blues In My Heart - 2003 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
I'd Love To Make Love To You - 2003 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
The Hands Of Time 00:00 Tools
When Darkeness Falls 00:00 Tools
You're Driving Me Crazy (What Did I Do) 00:00 Tools
Love 00:00 Tools
Day by Day 00:00 Tools
(Geneva's) Move 00:00 Tools
Song Bird 00:00 Tools
Up a Lazy River 00:00 Tools
Stars In My Eyes 00:00 Tools
Not You Again 00:00 Tools
Dearly Beloved (You Were Never Lovelier) 00:00 Tools
On The Street Where You Live (24-Bit Mastering 01) (2001 Digital Remaster) 00:00 Tools
Mighty Like the Blues 00:00 Tools
All Through the Day 00:00 Tools
I Wished on the Moon [alternative take] 00:00 Tools
Tintilin 00:00 Tools
I'll Be Around (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Blue Rainbow 00:00 Tools
Mr. Lucky 00:00 Tools
Look At That Face 00:00 Tools
Noel Nouvelet 00:00 Tools
Yesterday's Child 00:00 Tools
It Amazes Me 00:00 Tools
Christmas Waltz 00:00 Tools
Clap Your Hands 00:00 Tools
Homeward Bound 00:00 Tools
Nature Boy 00:00 Tools
Close to You 00:00 Tools
Nothing But D Best 00:00 Tools
Goodnight My Love 00:00 Tools
I See Nothing to Laugh About 00:00 Tools
The Shadow Of Your Smile (Digitally Remastered 02) 00:00 Tools
A Tune For Humming - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Hey Jude 00:00 Tools
Almost There 00:00 Tools
Loot To Boot 00:00 Tools
Salud 00:00 Tools
Call Me 00:00 Tools
Afro No 4 00:00 Tools
Jumpin' With Symphony Sid (Live) 00:00 Tools
Like Someone In Love (George Shearing) 00:00 Tools
Let Me 00:00 Tools
Bide-A-Wee 00:00 Tools
Careful 00:00 Tools
Happy Talk 00:00 Tools
I'll Be Seeing You 00:00 Tools
Trust in Me 00:00 Tools
Bernie's Tune (Live) 00:00 Tools
Like Young 00:00 Tools
When Your Love Has Gone 00:00 Tools
Anna's Song 00:00 Tools
The Fourth Duece 00:00 Tools
Street of Dreams 00:00 Tools
It Never Entered My Mind - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Truckin' 00:00 Tools
You're Driving Me Crazy (What Did I Do?) 00:00 Tools
Destination Moon 00:00 Tools
Anyone Can Whistle 00:00 Tools
I Don't Stand A Ghost Of A Chance 00:00 Tools
Blues for Breakfast 00:00 Tools
Mambo #2 00:00 Tools
Away in the Manger 00:00 Tools
What Kind Of Fool Am I? (Digitally Remastered 02) 00:00 Tools
Aquarius (Tangoterje Re-Edit) 00:00 Tools
We've Only Just Begun 00:00 Tools
Could Ja 00:00 Tools
I Love You 00:00 Tools
I'd Like To Make Love To You 00:00 Tools
In The Blue Of Evening 00:00 Tools
How's Trix 00:00 Tools
The Fool On The Hill 00:00 Tools
In The Night (2003 Digital Remaster) 00:00 Tools
Lullaby of Birdland - Alternate Take 00:00 Tools
Bel Aire 00:00 Tools
To Antonio Carlos Jobim 00:00 Tools
Bernie's Tune - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Cocktails for Two 00:00 Tools
You Are Too Beautiful 00:00 Tools
Welcome To My Dreams 00:00 Tools
Pawn Ticket - 2003 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
That's Earl, Brother 00:00 Tools
Fjärlins Vingor 00:00 Tools
Beat Me Daddy Eight To The Bar 00:00 Tools
God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen 00:00 Tools
Serenade In Blue 00:00 Tools
Oh, Look at Me Now 00:00 Tools
Laura (1995 Digital Remaster) 00:00 Tools
Mr. Lucky (Digitally Remastered 02) 00:00 Tools
You've Changed 00:00 Tools
High On A Windy Hill - Remastered 00:00 Tools
I've Got You Under My Skin 00:00 Tools
Once In A Lifetime 00:00 Tools
On A Clear Day You Can See Forever 00:00 Tools
September 00:00 Tools
On The Street Where You Live - 2001 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
The Hands Of Time (Brian's Song) 00:00 Tools
Too Good To Be True 00:00 Tools
Jumping With Symphony Sid 00:00 Tools
Boogie Ride 00:00 Tools
Nothing But D. Best 00:00 Tools
Minor Contention 00:00 Tools
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George Shearing (13 August 1919 – February 14, 2011) was a well-known jazz pianist and inventor of the famous "Shearing Sound": a form of smooth cocktail jazz characterised by block chords played on the piano along with similar chords played on the vibraphone. Shearing was born in the Battersea area of London, United Kingdom. Congenitally blind, he was the youngest of nine children. He started to learn piano at the age of three. After limited training and extensive listening to recorded jazz, he began playing at hotels, clubs and pubs in the London area, sometimes solo, occasionally with dance bands. In 1940, Shearing joined Harry Parry's popular band and became a star in Britain, performing for the BBC, playing with Stéphane Grappelli's London-based groups of the early 1940s, and winning seven consecutive Melody Maker polls. In 1946, Shearing established himself in the United States. In 1955, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States. Leading a quintet (piano with guitar, bass, drums and vibraphone), which over the years included Cal Tjader, Margie Hyams, Denzil Best, Israel Crosby, Joe Pass and Gary Burton, Shearing had a succession of hugely popular records including September In The Rain and his own composition, Lullaby Of Birdland (1952). His style, including the joint playing of the melody by piano and vibraphone, was also widely copied, becoming part of the idiom of pop music, so that his records from that period now sound far less innovative than they did at the time. Later, Shearing played with a trio, as a solo and increasingly in duo. Among his collaborations have been sets with the Montgomery Brothers, Marian McPartland, Brian Torff, Jim Hall, Hank Jones and Kenny Davern. In the 1970s, Shearing's profile had been lowered considerably, but upon signing with Concord Records in 1979, Shearing found himself enjoying a renaissance. Over the years, Shearing has also collaborated with singers including Nat King Cole, Peggy Lee, Ernestine Anderson, Carmen McRae, and most notably, Mel Tormé, with whom he performed frequently in the late 80s and early 90s at festivals, on radio and for recordings. Recently, Shearing collaborated with the John Pizzarelli Trio to create the album The Rare Delight of You, which garnered extremely good reviews. The album cover, featuring Pizzarelli and Shearing posing in front of a solid blue background, was designed to resemble the cover of Nat King Cole Sings George Shearing Plays, a legendary jazz recording with which it shares some similarities in style. Shearing's interest in classical music resulted in some performances with concert orchestras in the 1950s and 1960s, and his solo's frequently draw upon the music of Debussy and, particularly, Erik Satie for inspiration. Shearing also made a recording with the classical French horn player Barry Tuckwell. Shearing wrote a number of jazz arrangements of hymn tunes for the organ in collaboration with organist Dale Wood, that have been published in sheet music form. (2) For a long stretch of time in the 1950s and early '60s, George Shearing had one of the most popular jazz combos on the planet -- so much so that, in the usual jazz tradition of distrusting popular success, he tended to be underappreciated. Shearing's main claim to fame was the invention of a unique quintet sound, derived from a combination of piano, vibraphone, electric guitar, bass, and drums. Within this context, Shearing would play in a style he called "locked hands," which he picked up and refined from Milt Buckner's early-'40s work with the Lionel Hampton band, as well as Glenn Miller's sax section and the King Cole Trio. Stating the melody on the piano with closely knit, harmonized block chords, with the vibes and guitar tripling the melody in unison, Shearing sold tons of records for MGM and Capitol in his heyday. The wild success of this urbane sound obscures Shearing's other great contribution during this time, for he was also a pioneer of exciting, small-combo Afro-Cuban jazz in the '50s. Indeed, Cal Tjader first caught the Latin jazz bug while playing with Shearing, and the English bandleader also employed such esteemed congueros as Mongo Santamaria, Willie Bobo, and Armando Peraza. As a composer, Shearing was best known for the imperishable, uniquely constructed bop standard "Lullaby of Birdland," as well as "Conception" and "Consternation." His solo style, though all his own, reflected the influences of the great boogie-woogie pianists and classical players, as well as those of Fats Waller, Earl Hines, Teddy Wilson, Erroll Garner, Art Tatum, and Bud Powell -- and fellow pianists long admired his light, refined touch. He was also known to play accordion and sing in a modest voice on occasion. Shearing, who was born blind, began playing the piano at the age of three, receiving some music training at the Linden Lodge School for the Blind in London as a teenager but picking up the jazz influence from Teddy Wilson and Fats Waller 78s. In the late '30s, he started playing professionally with the Ambrose dance band and made his first recordings in 1937 under the aegis of fellow Brit Leonard Feather. He became a star in Britain, performing for the BBC, playing a key role in the self-exiled Stéphane Grappelli's London-based groups of the early '40s, and winning seven consecutive Melody Maker polls before emigrating in New York City in 1947 at the prompting of Feather. Once there, Shearing quickly absorbed bebop into his bloodstream, replacing Garner in the Oscar Pettiford Trio and leading a quartet in tandem with Buddy DeFranco. In 1949, he formed the first and most famous of his quintets, which included Marjorie Hyams on vibes (thus striking an important blow for emerging female jazz instrumentalists), Chuck Wayne on guitar, John Levy on bass, and Denzil Best on drums. Recording briefly first for Discovery, then Savoy, Shearing settled into lucrative associations with MGM (1950-1955) and Capitol (1955-1969), the latter for which he made albums with Nancy Wilson, Peggy Lee, and Nat King Cole. He also made a lone album for Jazzland with the Montgomery Brothers (including Wes Montgomery) in 1961, and began playing concert dates with symphony orchestras. After leaving Capitol, Shearing began to phase out his by-then-predictable quintet, finally breaking it up in 1978. He started his own label, Sheba, which lasted for a few years into the early '70s -- and made some trio recordings for MPS later in the decade. In the '70s, his profile had been lowered considerably, but upon signing with Concord in 1979, Shearing found himself enjoying a renaissance in all kinds of situations. He made a number of acclaimed albums with Mel Tormé, raising the singer's profile in the process, and recorded with the likes of Ernestine Anderson, Jim Hall, Marian McPartland, Hank Jones, and classical French horn player Barry Tuckwell. He also recorded a number of solo piano albums where his full palette of influences came into play. He signed with Telarc in 1992 and from that point through the early 2000s continued to perform and record, most often appearing in a duo or trio setting. Shearing, who had remained largely inactive since 2004 after a fall in his New York City apartment, died of congestive heart failure at New York's Lenox Hill Hospital on February 14, 2011. He was 91. ~ Richard S. Ginell, Rovi Read more on Last.fm. 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