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Lullaby of Birdland

George Shearing

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Customer Reviews

Just get the album song

theres really no need to buy the whole album or more than the song Lullaby of Birdland itself (track1 that is, although track 16 is quite good too-and maybe a little better in quality-there's singing though), unless you're a big Shearing fan, then go ahead.

Biography

Born: August 13, 1919 in London, England

Genre: Jazz

Years Active: '30s, '40s, '50s, '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s, '00s

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...
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