George Shearing - Lullaby of Birdland

[anitadavideduo]

Simply wonderful!!

[MeatGoHome]

Thank you, Kerouack! :))

[martinbeckthefirst]

I first heard his music when I was 13 years old and here it is more then 60 years later i am still digging jazz

[semcompromissonenhum]

"Sal, Deus acaba de chegar."

[roberamujazz]

wow--my man--love it !!!

[yoptrone]

This is so excellent

[thedoorsbest]

I heard of him thanks to Jack Kerouac and his books

to be more accurate,the book was-On The Road

great,GREATgreat

[skyvorpal]

@thedoorsbest ya, it's in the scroll, neal loved him. did it make it into the final draft?

[skeptyky]

respect georges ,beautiful jazz

[SIRONEDRAGON]

beautiful : ) 

[vladathejazz33]

Sad mi je jasno zasto ga je onoliko voleo Nil Kesidi :D

Velicanstveno.

[cynlovemusic]

RIP George Shearing ..... Thanks for all the wounderfull music you brought to or ears...

[gfkleopa]

Great song RIP GEORGE

[dbin3d]

oops it looks like I spelled my name wrong in the last message I left you, so you wanted me to get into contact with you so here I am who is this anyway? please look me up on facebook I'm on facebook much more than I am on youtube

[dbin3d]

hey, thos os Dave Bptkin

[exjazzbassbaz]

god bless SIR GEORGE a giant gone.but never never will we forget .thanks for all the memories.R.I.P,

[thebrokenrattle]

Ahh, I recognize this from Ella Fitzgerald collection I have...I will have to look into Mr. Shearing some more since he plays that wonderful 50's mix of bebop and cool jazz.

[MrMaymac]

Just wonderful!!!

[MrTomasKostka1]

I play the guitar in a small jazz group. Today evening we are playing in a club and we'll perform this wonderful jazz standard. We'll play it for you, Mr. Shearing. Rest in peace and I hope they have a piano for you there where you are now...

[AchillesShield]

RIP Mr. Shearing. Although you are gone from us, your art lives on.

God bless you, sir.

[rockerphelps]

Right. He wasn't blind; he just couldn't see anything.

[AndrewFinch1]

Shearing, I worked with you, and these assholes say you were blind. They are insulting your legacy, and they are going wild trying to imply that you were like Stevie Wonder or Ray Charles, that you couldn't see a fucking thing. You are greater than those 2 monsters, but maybe not as good as Ray Charles.

You used to paint pictures of dogs and dogshit because you were a naturalist.

[JDeGroom]

I remember Mr. Shearing playing with Merv Griffin, Steve Allen and Mike Douglas on the afternoon talk shows. He really seemed to enjoy going back and forth with them. Then, they would turn down the lights and he would play a piece on his own and blow the whole studio away.

[garbar12345]

this is the first time i heard this song. i really like it. i was born in 1951

[chkjns]

@garbar12345 You've got 5 years on me! I just made this my featured video - not often you get to hear a standard at the hands of its composer! Added this to my 1952 playlist, the year he wrote it. My channel is a tribute to a century of the best music & musicians on earth, with 630 playlists covering over 400 artists, many genres & every year since 1900 - listen like you've stepped back in time ! chcuk

[PerryFitz]

Cool, man.

[PerryFitz]

Cool, man.

[locomotive478]

Today is a sad day this monster of jazz, partile to the upstairs taking his special talent of playing the piano on top to navigate. be at peace, George Shearing that God puts them in good stead and let his soul rest in the holy fathers in Christ. He died of heart failure on February 14, 2011 in New York in 91 years of age. xavier Curitiba Parana Brazil

[fuckallelsetodo]

Shearing was born blind and attended blind school at an early age.

[skfitzp]

My theme song for 50 years or so. Thank you Mr. S. RIP

[paulocapella]

Best dining/dancing music the world has seen!

[AndrewFinch1]

George, I remember how wonderful you were to me as a piano instructor. You also had such a sharp eye for detail, I remember when i showed you a Van Gogh reprint, you saw that the colors were off in the haystacks. I remember skeet shooting with you, and it was wonderful. I'll see you in heaven, George.

[OlymPigs2010]

@AndrewFinch1 - Thanks for everything George!

Oh and BTW - Shearing was blind!

[AndrewFinch1]

@OlymPigs2010 Nah, it was just pretend. So people would buy more albums thinking it was amazing that a blind guy played the piano. He had the eyes of a hawk.

[OlymPigs2010]

@AndrewFinch1 - "Born in Battersea, London, Shearing was the youngest of nine children. He was born blind to working class parents: his father delivered coal and his mother cleaned trains in the evening. He started to learn piano at the age of three and began formal training at Linden Lodge School for the Blind, where he spent four years.[2]" -

* I don't know if you're a fool or an idiot Andy...but I strongly suspect the latter!

[AndrewFinch1]

@OlymPigs2010 Hey Pig, Go fuck yourself. Your Friend, Andy.

PS - Shearing wasn't blind.

[LandondeeL]

In loving memory.

[ELAW67]

...just heard about this on NBC news...sorry to lose you Mr. Shearing...i will get to know your music starting today!!! RIP sir!

[cindiloohoo552]

God speed 

[tvoh01]

sadly those who departed so soon

[Sacrem85]

Elevator music! <3

[devilfan1965]

rest in peace george shearing.....play for god now

[nytwings]

Rest in peace.

[llumpyg]

RIP George Shearing...Dead at 91

[Guitfiddlejase]

@llumpyg Shearing was unreal man....

[DrFeelRotten]

Wow.. Thanks.. I heard that since i was a little boy in the early 60s from my dad and know every note and beat in my minds eye before its even played

[oscar64907]

Una gran pieza musical, una excelente interpretación con gran feeling y delicadeza, una joya musical, arriba Mr, Shearing.

[quatlucius]

Sigh... thanks for posting.

[ThatsMrMoronToYou]

Sounds like the old man.

[chkjns]

Sir George Shearing was born blind in 1913 and wrote this song 5 years after his 1947 arrival in the US.

We both became US citizens in 1956. He was naturalized & I sort of just 'popped out' in Atlanta GA.

My channel is a musical time machine with 4000 songs on 111 playlists for every year since 1900.

6000 more songs are listed by artist & genre. It's a musical journey around the world or back in time for anyone who wants to make the trip!

Thanks ales0 for the beautiful music.

[195477]

@chkjns watch?v=B8_nKZ3UvfM

[Thebirdienumnum]

Great pianist- very topical for my channel. Seriously though his playing is an insperation to all us wanna be jazz pianists. Thanks for sharing.



[johnbresnik]

my first introduction to jazz was from George Shearing in 1954 -- I was 14 at the time and started playing jazz piano myself in 1955. What's amazing to me is that he's still alive and I'm 70...! What a great influence he has been over the years... and I love his singing voice .. wish he had done more with that.