Continental Experience

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Continental Experience
Studio album by
Released 1975
Genre Jazz
Label MPS/BASF Records 68-097
George Shearing chronology
The Way We Are
(1974)
Continental Experience
(1975)
The Reunion
(1976)
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Continental Experience is a studio album by British jazz pianist George Shearing, billed as part of the 'George Shearing Quintet and Amigos'. [2]

Track listing

  1. "Lullaby of Birdland" (George Shearing, George David Weiss) – 3:08
  2. "When Your Lover Has Gone" (Einar Aaron Swan) – 2:55
  3. "To a Wild Rose" (Edward MacDowell) – 3:07
  4. "I'll Be Around" (Alec Wilder) – 2:36
  5. "Thine Alone" (Victor Herbert, Henry Blossom) – 2:53
  6. "Don't Blame Me" (Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields) – 5:27
  7. "The Continental" (Herb Magidson, Con Conrad) – 3:10
  8. "The Nearness of You" (Hoagy Carmichael, Ned Washington) – 3:00
  9. "Roses of Picardy" (Frederick Weatherly, Haydn Wood) – 2:53
  10. "Someone to Watch Over Me" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 2:33
  11. "East of the Sun (and West of the Moon)" (Brooks Bowman) – 3:25
  12. "We'll Be Together Again" (Carl Fischer, Frankie Laine) – 1:55

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