{"id":2701,"date":"2011-02-15T10:47:21","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T09:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/?p=2701"},"modified":"2011-02-15T13:44:47","modified_gmt":"2011-02-15T12:44:47","slug":"in-memoriam-george-shearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2011\/02\/15\/in-memoriam-george-shearing\/","title":{"rendered":"In memoriam: George Shearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/jazzwisemagazine.com\/news-mainmenu-139\/68-2011\/11783-jazz-breaking-news-george-shearing-dies\" target=\"_blank\">reported in <em>Jazzwise<\/em><\/a> and elsewhere today, the great British jazz pianist George Shearing has died at the age of 91.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2702\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2702\" style=\"width: 202px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2702 \" style=\"border: 5px solid black;margin-left: 5px;margin-right: 5px\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/files\/2011\/02\/shearing.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/files\/2011\/02\/shearing.jpeg 202w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/files\/2011\/02\/shearing-121x150.jpg 121w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2702\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shear genius: George Shearing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Blind from birth, London-born Shearing moved to American and lived in New York; he worked with a notable array of jazz luminaries including singers Nat King Cole and Sarah Vaughan, guitarist Joe Pass and vibraphone legend Gary Burton . Shearing had a deft pianistic style, that moved easily from rich clusters of chords to delicate single-finger melodic playing.<\/p>\n<p><em>Lullaby of Birdland<\/em> was perhaps his most famous tune, named after the famous jazz club in New York.<\/p>\n<div class=\"kent-video-wrapper\"><span class='embed-youtube' style='text-align:center; display: block;'><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text\/html' width='474' height='297' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tyS1FsUV__8?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen='true'><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Sir George Shearing: 1919-2011.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"kent-social-links\"><li><a href='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2011\/02\/15\/in-memoriam-george-shearing\/&amp;t=In memoriam: George Shearing' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-facebook' title='Share via Facebook'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=In memoriam: George Shearing%20https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2011\/02\/15\/in-memoriam-george-shearing\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-twitter' title='Share via Twitter'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2011\/02\/15\/in-memoriam-george-shearing\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-google-plus' title='Share via Google Plus'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2011\/02\/15\/in-memoriam-george-shearing\/&amp;title=In memoriam: George Shearing' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-linkedin' title='Share via Linked In'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='mailto:content=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2011\/02\/15\/in-memoriam-george-shearing\/&amp;title=In memoriam: George Shearing' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-email' title='Share via Email'><\/i><\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As reported in Jazzwise and elsewhere today, the great British jazz pianist George Shearing has died at the age of 91. Blind from birth, London-born Shearing moved to American and lived in New York; he worked with a notable array of jazz luminaries including singers Nat King Cole and Sarah Vaughan, guitarist Joe Pass and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2011\/02\/15\/in-memoriam-george-shearing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">In memoriam: George Shearing<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":620,"featured_media":2702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[936,1110],"tags":[5204,934],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/620"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2701"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2707,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701\/revisions\/2707"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}