In the collection
1 record
Played with
Nat King Cole
1 record together
Ralph Carmichael
1 record together
Lee Gillette
1 record together
Kurt Weill
1 record together
Dorothy Fields
1 record together
Jerome Kern
1 record together
Duke Ellington
1 record together
Paul Francis Webster
1 record together
Don Wolf
1 record together
Eddie Delange
1 record together
Mitchell Parish
1 record together
About
Anglo-American blind jazz pianist and composer.
Born: Aug. 13th, 1919 in Battersea, London, UK - died: Feb. 14th, 2011 in NYC, NY.
He moved to the US in 1947, and was amongst the first post-war British jazz musicians to make a solid career there. He was appointed OBE in 2007, and then knighted in 2007, both by Queen Elizabeth II.
He became known for a piano technique known as “The Shearing Sound”, a type of double melody block chord, with an additional fifth part that doubles the melody an octave lower. With the piano playing these five voices, Shearing would double the top voice with the vibraphone and the bottom voice with the guitar to create his signature sound.
One of his most notable composition: ‘Lullaby Of Birdland‘.