This month, instead of writing about a jazz personality, I decided to write about a room. A jazz room which sadly no longer exists but that had a personality as unique as the great musicians who ...

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George Shearing, the ebullient jazz pianist who wrote the standard "Lullaby of Birdland," died Monday in Manhattan of congestive heart failure. He was 91. (Associated Press) ...

In the world of jazz and jazz-influenced popular music, guitar players have one major thing in common with male singers: The overwhelming majority of both seem to be either Italian American or African ...

George Shearing, who shrugged off blindness to become one of the most beloved and defining pianists of the 20th century, died Monday of congestive heart failure at Lenox Hill Hospital. He was 91.

Anglo-American jazz pianist Sir George Shearing, best known for his song Lullaby of Birdland, has died in New York aged 91 of heart failure. Blind from birth, he began his career in London before ...

George Shearing, the jazz pianist who wrote the standard "Lullaby of Birdland" and amused audiences for decades on both sides of the Atlantic, died Monday. He was 91. Shearing was born in London and ...