George Shearing
British-American jazz pianist
Sir George Albert Shearing (13 August 1919 – 14 February 2011) was a British jazz pianist and composer who for many years led a popular jazz group that recorded for Discovery Records, MGM Records and Capitol Records. Shearing was the composer of over 300 songs, including the jazz standards "Lullaby of Birdland" and "Conception", and had multiple albums on the Billboard charts during the 1950s, 1960s, 1980s and 1990s.
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Works
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- And Then I Wrote
- Black Satin
- Blue Malibu
- Bop's Your Uncle
- Break Out the Blues
- Conception
- Conception I
- Conception II
- Cozy's Bop
- Easy
- Enchanted
- From Rags to Richards
- Geneva's Move
- La Légende du pays aux oiseaux (Lola)
- Lullaby of Birdland
- Lullaby of Byrdland
- Midnight in the Air
- Music to Hear
- Music to Hear: I. Music to Hear
- Music to Hear: II. Shall I Compare Thee to a Summers Day?
- Music to Hear: III. Is It for Fear to Wet a Widow's Eye
- Music to Hear: IV. Sigh No More, Ladies, Sigh No More
- Music to Hear: V. Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind
- Sacred Sounds: Amazing Grace
- Songs and Sonnets From Shakespeare
- Songs and Sonnets From Shakespeare: I. Live With Me and Be My Love
- Songs and Sonnets From Shakespeare: II. When Daffodils Begin to Peer
- Songs and Sonnets From Shakespeare: III. It Was a Lover and His Lass
- Songs and Sonnets From Shakespeare: IV. Spring
- Songs and Sonnets From Shakespeare: V. Who Is Silvia
- Songs and Sonnets From Shakespeare: VI. Fie on Sinful Fantasy
- Songs and Sonnets From Shakespeare: VII. Hey, Ho, the Wind and the Rain
- When Darkness Falls