Latest Release
- 24 MAY 2024
- 3 Songs
- Beauty and the Beat! (Live In Miami, FL/1959/Remastered) · 1959
- The Classic Years: George Shearing · 1961
- George Shearing In Concert (Live) [feat. Neil Swainson] · 2023
- George Shearing In Concert (Live) [feat. Neil Swainson] · 2023
- George Shearing In Concert (Live) [feat. Neil Swainson] · 2023
- George Shearing In Concert (Live) [feat. Neil Swainson] · 2023
- George Shearing In Concert (Live) [feat. Neil Swainson] · 2023
- George Shearing In Concert (Live) [feat. Neil Swainson] · 2023
- World Broadcast Recordings · 2023
- World Broadcast Recordings · 2023
Essential Albums
Music Videos
- 2023
Artist Playlists
- The classically inspired bebopper also wrote hit tunes.
- 2018
Appears On
- Harry Parry's Radio Rhythm Club Sextet
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