George Meets the Lion: The Original Quintet & Solos [ORIGINAL RECORDINGS REMASTERED] [Import]

George Shearing | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 13, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Jasmine Music
• ASIN: B000056V15
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #244,396 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. September In The Rain

2. Good To The Last Bop

3. Bop, Look And Listen

4. You Are Too Beautiful (Piano Solo) - George Shearing

5. I Didn't Know What Time It Was

6. The Continental

7. Nothing But D. Best

8. Summertime (Piano Solo) - George Shearing

9. East Of The Sun (And West Of The Moon)

10. In A Chinese Garden Part 1

11. In A Chinese Garden Part 2

12. Conception

13. I'll Remember April

14. Little White Lies

15. Carnegie Horizons

16. Jumpin' With Symphony Sid

17. November Seascape

18. How's Trix ?

19. Changing With The Times

20. Strolling

See all 23 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

In the austerity years which followed the ending of World War II, the British nation was constantly exhorted to "Export, Export, Export!" in a desperate attempt to pay off the country's massive debts. The blind musician George Shearing took this seriously and 'exported' himself permanently to the United States. This may have meant one less mouth to feed but it also meant depriving Britain of one of its few internationally recognised Jazz stars. Well, not strictly true at the time - if Shearing was recognised for his genius in his home country, it was only amongst the real cognoscenti. There simply wasn't a thriving Jazz scene anywhere in the land where a good living could be made by the musically inspired. There was work for musicians, okay, but few opportunities for them to play on their own terms, as the 'art' of Jazz would require. Shearing decided to take a chance in the founding country of Jazz and the gamble paid off. His talent was recognised there and from it grew his international reputation. Staying in England would perhaps have soured that talent, and even when Jazz did make its mark on the British psyche, it was primarily of the conservative 'Traditional' variety, not exactly the most testing of genres for a free spirit.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Meeting An Old Friend, July 13, 2006

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This review is from: George Meets the Lion: The Original Quintet & Solos [ORIGINAL RECORDINGS REMASTERED] (Audio CD)

Have been a Shearing fan since the first hearing... in the late forties. Had been wondering if or when his old stuff would ever make it to the CD. Here, at least, is some of it...and it still sounds good.