George Shearing enjoys an international reputation as a pianist, arranger and composer. Equally at home on the concert stage as in jazz clubs, Shearing is recognized for inventive, orchestrated jazz.

Pianist and composer Sir George Shearing has died, at age 91. Born blind, Shearing was a self-taught musician, the youngest of nine children of a London coal man. In a career spent almost entirely in ...

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NEW YORK - Sir George Shearing, the ebullient jazz pianist who wrote the standard "Lullaby of Birdland" and had a string of hits both with and without his quintet, has died. He was 91. Shearing, blind ...

The "Lullaby of Birdland" writer suffered from congestive heart failure Monday in New York City. By The Associated Press NEW YORK – Sir George Shearing, the ebullient jazz pianist who wrote the ...

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