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George Shearing Quintet

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portobob (6 days ago) Show Hide
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I heard Shearing's quintet many times all over the country. After all of the great work touring with the quintet he started using a bass player....Once he commented/reasoned something like he wanted to "pursue a different avenue...that the quintet format put him in a box". Did anyone here ever get tired of the quintet ??? I think not !
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@Siciliano81 You forgot that Brubeck uses the block chord style too. However, I think that Shearing was the best. His quintet of the early fifties were smooth as silk. Everybody in that group were beyond compare.
ytsugihiro (1 week ago) Show Hide
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George Shearing and his bands had a great great influence on jazz in Japan!
LAwoman95 (1 week ago) Show Hide
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Dean Moriarty ( from "On the Road") loved him ! Now i know why ;)..
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duncanmckibbin (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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Yes, it was written by Barney Kessel. Also famously recorded by a Benny Goodman small group in the forties,which included a second clarinet, the late Stan Hasselgard
beleza175 (1 month ago) Show Hide
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Isn`t this a Barney Kessel tune?
iamJROD (3 months ago) Show Hide
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Thanks for posting this. That was real cool.
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Sir George was one of the first and greatest British beboppers of all time. My favorite piece of his, written in '49, was CONCEPTION -- one of the 1950 companion Snyder Transcriptions to Swedish Pastry shown here. What a swinger! Miles soon got hold of it, made some alterations and aptly called it Deception. I interviewed Shearing twice and now am sorry I never asked him what he thought of Miles' tampering since, time shows, it got so much more publicity.
Milliebabessssx (5 months ago) Show Hide
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IAMHISGREATNIECE(:

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