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| | George Shearing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | Composer of one of the best-known jazz standards, ‘Lullaby of Birdland’, George Shearing developed with his quintet in the late forties a sound in which piano, vibes and guitar blended together to produce an intimate sound which gave the group two decades of success. |
 | | Feather was also instrumental in putting together the George Shearing Quintet, which originally included Margie Hyams, Chuck Wayne, Denzil Best and John Levy, later Shearing’s manager. |
 | | In 1954 Shearing added a conga-player and in 1956 joined Capitol, for whom he recorded prolifically on his own, gaining a minor British hit with his version of the classical adaptation ‘Baubles Bangles and Beads’ and with others, including Peggy Lee, Nat King Cole, which included the hit ‘Let There Be Love’, and Mel Torme. |
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