“A Tribute to the George Shearing Quintet” on Sunday, followed a week later by a dinner/concert event, “Big Band Extravaganza featuring Pete Christlieb and John Allred,” will fill the Westin La Paloma ...

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 since birth, ...

George Shearing is widely known for his jazzy compositions as leader of the quintet that bore his name, and later as a solo artist. These days, though, the spry, 73-year-old pianist performs with a ...

George Shearing has written an autobiography entitled Lullaby of Birdland. To coincide with its release, Concord has issued a 2-CD set of the pianist's recordings, entitled Lullabies of Birdland. Most ...

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 ...

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 ...