Latest Release
- 1 MAR 2024
- 2 Songs
- Verve Jazz Masters 57: George Shearing · 1996
- Friendly Persuasion · 2016
- Beauty And The Beat! (Expanded Edition) · 1959
- The MPS Trio Sessions (with Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen & Louis Stewart) · 2007
- Nat King Cole Sings/George Shearing Plays · 1962
- The One and Only · 1989
- The Best of George Shearing · 1995
- Nat King Cole Sings/George Shearing Plays · 1962
- Nat King Cole Sings/George Shearing Plays · 1962
- September In the Rain · 1950
Essential Albums
Music Videos
- 2023
Artist Playlists
- The classically inspired bebopper also wrote hit tunes.
- 2024
Appears On
- Harry Parry's Radio Rhythm Club Sextet
- Joe Williams
About George Shearing
London-born George Shearing was a classically trained pianist when he began to absorb the work of the great jazz pianists from records, and brought his training and natural improvisational gifts with him to New York in the late '40s. The historic quintet (piano, vibes, guitar, bass, drums) he led at that time was among the first small jazz groups to achieve widespread popularity. In the late '50s, while performing classical work with symphony orchestras, he would sometimes include arrangements that featured his quintet.
- HOMETOWN
- London, England
- BORN
- 13 August 1919
- GENRE
- Jazz