Latest Release
- 1 MAR 2024
- 2 Songs
- The Swingin's Mutual! · 1961
- Nat King Cole Sings/George Shearing Plays · 1962
- Nat King Cole Sings/George Shearing Plays · 1962
- The One and Only · 1989
- Beauty And The Beat! (Expanded Edition) · 1959
- Grand Piano · 1985
- The Cool Jazz (Tracks Remastered) - EP · 1954
- Beauty And The Beat! (Expanded Edition) · 1959
- Sunday Jazz - Verve 50 · 1974
- 100 Classic Songs For a Lazy Sunday · 2008
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