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Having admired jazz legend george shearing from afar for many yearscoincidentally, we were both born in london but have spent much of our working lives in americai was delighted to get to know him personally during the 1990s, at a time when his growing interest in choral music had already found expression in music to hear 1985, a cycle of shakespeare settings for choir, piano, and. Shearings tasty rhythm patterns, such as in \lullaby of birdland,\ his amazing harmonic progressions, such as in \somewhere over the rainbow,\ his sense of musical humor, such as in \all i do is dream of you,\ and also a touch of mr. Shearing unique style of clustering is well represented in this book. The shearing piano, an album by george shearing on spotify. George shearing buy sheet music and songbooks presto sheet. George shearing piano interpretations vol 1 free download as pdf file.
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English jazz pianist, born blind, who was renowned for his inventive, melodic and unblushingly romantic solos. Recorded at the michael fowler centre, wellington, new zealand, 1990. George shearing biography, albums, streaming links allmusic. Jun 05, 2001 this is one of the earliest releases to feature george shearing exclusively as a solo pianist, and the cd reissue of the long unavailable lp adds ten previously unissued tracks. New york, one of the worlds most influential and beloved jazz pianists and composers, sir george shearing, died shortly after 1. Shearing, george interpretations for piano free download as pdf file. Piano, 1990 george shearing its you or no one, from album. Music profile for george shearing, born august 1919.
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