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Personal Data:

Born:	1920
Died:	14.02.2011	(heart failure)

Albums Discography:

#	Title	Release Date	Label	Type	UK	USA
1.	The Shearing Touch	?
2.	Latin Affair	12/1958
3.	Beauty And The Beat! & Peggy Lee	1959			18
4.	The Swingin's Mutual! credited to: George Shearing Quintet & Nancy Wilson	1961	Serious Class
5.	Nat 'King' Cole Sings And The George Shearing Quintet Plays credited to: George Shearing Quintet & Nat King Cole	10/1962			8
6.	Continental Experience	1974
7.	Light Airy and Swinging	1974	Naxos of America
8.	The Way We Are	1974
9.	My Ship	1975
10.	The Special Magic Of George Shearing	6/1975	MGM
11.	The Many Facets	1977
12.	Getting In The Swing Of Things	1978
13.	Windows credited to: The George Shearing trio	7/1979	MPS
14.	500 Miles High	7/1979	MPS
15.	On A Clear Day	1980
16.	Two For The Road & Carmen McRae	6/1980	Concord
17.	Blues Alley Jazz	8/1980	Concord
18.	Alone Together	1981
19.	First Edition	1981
20.	Live At Cafe Carlyle (live)	1984
21.	An Elegant Evening	1985
22.	Grand Piano	1985
23.	Playing Our Songs & Dave Brubeck	09.08.1999
24.	The Shearing Piano	05.06.2001	Blue Note
25.	Back To Birdland credited to: George Shearing Quintet	24.07.2001	Telarc Jazz
26.	Ballad Essentials	11.09.2001	Concord
27.	Out Of This World	23.10.2001	Koch
28.	Heart and Soul of George Shearing	23.10.2001	Koch
29.	Duets	26.02.2002	Concord
30.	George Shearing Trio, Vol. 1	15.03.2002	Koch International
31.	George Shearing Quartet	15.03.2002	Koch International
32.	Rare Delight Of You credited to: George Shearing Quintet & John Pizzarelli	23.04.2002	Telarc Jazz
33.	Timeless	04.06.2002	Savoy Jazz
34.	Complete Savoy Trio and Quintet Sessions	30.07.2002	Jazz Factory
35.	Definitive George Shearing	24.09.2002	Universal
36.	George Shearing / Cannonball Adderly Quintets at New	12.11.2002	Pablo
37.	Great Britains & Marian McPartland	22.04.2003	Savoy Jazz
38.	In the Night	20.05.2003	Blue Note
39.	Jazz Accordion, Vol. 1 & Joe Cornell	07.10.2003	Epm Musique
40.	Lullabies of Birdland: A Musical Autobiography	09.03.2004	Concord Jazz
41.	George Shearing Quintet Live at Birdland 1952 & Teddi King (live)	18.05.2004	Baldwin Street Music
42.	Like Fine Wine	15.06.2004	Mack Avenue
43.	Classic Concert Live & Gerry Mulligan & Mel Torme (live)	15.02.2005	Concord
44.	Very Best	24.05.2005	Blue Note
45.	Deep Velvet / Old Gold and Ivory	07.06.2005	EMI
46.	Gas credited to: George Shearing Quartet No. 2	07.06.2005	Koch
47.	As Requested credited to: George Shearing Quintet	07.06.2005	Koch
48.	Hopeless Romantics & Michael Feinstein	27.09.2005	Concord
49.	Music to Hear	08.11.2005	Koch
50.	Live Jazz from Club 15 credited to: George Shearing Quintet (live)	02.05.2006	Request
51.	Best of George Shearing	22.08.2006	Collectables
52.	MPS Trio Sessions	25.03.2008	Verve
53.	Early Years	14.10.2008	JSP
54.	Classic Album Collection	16.12.2008	Golden Stars
55.	Navy Swings credited to: George Shearing Quintet	21.07.2009	Sounds of Yesteryear
56.	Bossa Nova	26.04.2011	EMI
57.	September in the Rain	27.03.2012
58.	Latin Escapade credited to: George Shearing Quintet	05.06.2012	Jazz Archives
59.	Let's Go to Town & The Hi-lo's	17.07.2012	Sounds Of Yesteryear
60.	The George Shearing Collection: 1939-1958	09.10.2012	Acrobat
61.	On the Sunny Side of the Strip / On Stage & Toots Thielemans	16.10.2012	Ais
62.	The Best Party of the Day	16.10.2012	jazz2jazz
63.	Good to the Last Bop credited to: George Shearing Quintet	21.01.2014	Sounds of Yesteryear
64.	At Newport credited to: George Shearing Quintet	08.07.2014	Pablo
65.	I'll Be Around	19.08.2014	Sounds of Yesteryear
66.	Four Classic Albums Plus	26.08.2014	Avid Jazz
67.	Easy to Love	21.10.2014	Sounds of Yesteryear
68.	Conception: 1943 to 1953 credited to: George Shearing Quintet	19.02.2016	Sounds of Yesteryear
69.	Lullaby of Birdland: The Shearing Touch	25.03.2016	Arthaus Musik

Singles Discography:

#	SP/EP Title	Release Date	Label	UK	USA
1.	Baubles, Bangles And Beads	9/1962		49

Press References:

Melody Maker
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
1975	24	14.06.1975	42	Jazz Records	album review
1976	15	10.04.1976	20	Caught In The Act	gig review
1976	15	10.04.1976	39	Jazzscene	interview
1978	1	07.01.1978	23	Jazzscene	interview
1979	28	28.07.1979	57	Jazz Albums	album review
1980	29	30.08.1980	13	Jazz - Album Reviews	album review
1980	42	29.11.1980	27	Jazz Albums	album review
New Musical Express
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
1965	0	01.10.1965	2	Star Quote
Rock & Pop
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
2000	10		116	Recenze - Jazz Café	album review
2004	1		57	Jazz & Blues