On the Sunny Side of the Strip [Original recording reissued]

George Shearing | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 30, 1993)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording reissued
• Label: Gnp Crescendo
• ASIN: B000001P2L
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #62,415 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Jordu

2. As I Love You

3. Confirmation

4. The Nearness of You

5. Mambo Inn

6. Bernie's Tune

7. Some Other Spring

8. Joy Spring

9. Drume Negrita

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent..., February 5, 2005

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Jack Dempsey (South Miami Beach, Florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: On the Sunny Side of the Strip (Audio CD)

I'll confess. Long, long ago, when I started *really* collecting some of this type of music on vinyl, I only paid attention to Shearing for his album covers. Particularly those "Satin" or "Velvet" covers. You know the ones I mean. They had the element I was looking for and, along with Esquivel, Denny, and countless, countless others, I snapped them up. Then came an LP with Shearing and Nancy Wilson called "The Swinging's Mutual." I got it, took it home, listened to it on my old Zenith Cobramatic and fell in love. Both with Shearing AND Wilson. Then, a little later, I found this very LP in a thrift store for something like 45 cents. Clean as a whistle. Snatched it up too. I thought I'd died and gone to heaven. It is straight up, some of the tightest, swinging I've heard this side of the Milt and the MJQ or Miles' Quintet. Hush yo' mouth! Nope, I said it. It's true. It is unreal, and it's live and it's non-stop, from start to finish, some of the finest playing that I think the Strip has ever heard and that Capitol records has ever laid to wax. And, the cover on this ain't half-bad either.

You gotta get this cd now. Ain't no other way to put it but that. You will definitely, definitely not be disappointed.

4.0 out of 5 stars On the Sunny Side, August 19, 2000

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George R. Stilwell, Jr. (Raleigh, NC USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: On the Sunny Side of the Strip (Audio CD)

A live recording. Shearing always said he prefered them and he's right. On top of that, it's about the best sound quality I've heard in the older recordings.

Track 2 and Track 7 are wonderful examples of the Shearing sound and well worth the price of the whole CD.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Latin sound, August 20, 2002

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"alcraig7" (Howell Michigan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: On the Sunny Side of the Strip (Audio CD)

bongo's by Armondo Perroso who has recently recorded with
Santana