GRAND RAPIDS – George Shearing, the world famous jazz pianist who penned "Lullaby of Birdland" among many other tunes, has died at age 91. Though blind from birth, Shearing was a major artist from the ...

Pianist and composer Sir George Shearing has died, at age 91. Born blind, Shearing was a self-taught musician, the youngest of nine children of a London coal man. In a career spent almost entirely in ...

George Shearing is doing something different these days. Normally when the pianist/ composer plays a club, he and his group do a fixed set, mostly jazz, mixed with Latin or bossa nova strains. But his ...

Sir George Shearing, who died yesterday aged 91, was one of the most successful pianists in jazz, developing a style of such enduring yet broad appeal that it became known as the "Shearing sound"; he ...

Charlie Haden has travelled millions of miles around the world on airplanes going back to the late 1950s, when he was bassist in Ornette Coleman’s group. He’s told me some funny and ribald stories ...

Lost amid the most of the words noting the passing of George Shearing are his influence on Afro-Cuban jazz and his zero-tolerance attitude toward racism. For a large part of the mid-'50s through the ...