George Albert Shearing was born on Aug. 13, 1919, in the Battersea area of London, the youngest of nine children. His father, James Phillip Shearing, was a coal worker; his mother, the former Ellen ...

In January 1983, George Shearing and bassist Don Thompson began a six week engagement at Michael's Pub on East 55th St. in New York. Thompson and Shearing had been working as a duo since June '82 and ...

It's more than a little ironic that Harry Warren's name doesn't appear on the cover of the new duet recording by Michael Feinstein and George Shearing. "Hopeless Romantics" is, after all, a 15-track ...

Charlie Haden has travelled millions of miles around the world on airplanes going back to the late 1950s, when he was bassist in Ornette Coleman’s group. He’s told me some funny and ribald stories ...

Surprisingly, this is all about time. Granted, that’s not the first thing we think about when someone drops the name of George Shearing. As John Pizzarelli points out during his show at the Carlyle, ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Blind jazz piano legend Sir George Shearing, best known for his inventive jazz and the classic, "Lullaby of Birdland," died on Monday of congestive heart failure at age 91, his ...

Finally a full length concert on DVD of this jazz piano legend filmed in 1991 at the Paul Mason Winery in a state of the art digital and audio production Shearings artistry is captured forever as he ...

On Saturday 22nd November, starting at 3pm, The Phoenix Choir of Crawley, with accompanist Gina Eason, will present an ...

Shearing was born in 1919 in the Battersea area of London. Congenitally blind, he was the youngest of nine children. His father delivered coal and his mother cleaned trains at night after caring for ...

MANHATTAN (CN) - George Shearing, a British-born pianist whose song "Lullaby of Birdland" became a jazz standard, died Monday in New York. He was 91. Sign up for the Top 8, a roundup of the day's top ...