Grand Piano (album)

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Grand Piano
Studio album by George Shearing
Released 1985
Recorded 1985
Genre Jazz
Length39:18
Label Concord
Producer Carl Jefferson
George Shearing chronology
An Elegant Evening
(1985)		Grand Piano
(1985)		 George Shearing & Barry Tuckwell Play the Music of Cole Porter
(1986)
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Grand Piano is a 1985 studio album by the pianist George Shearing. [3]

George Shearing Anglo-American jazz pianist

Sir George Albert Shearing, OBE was a British jazz pianist who for many years led a popular jazz group that recorded for Discovery Records, MGM Records and Capitol Records. The composer of over 300 titles, including the jazz standards "Lullaby of Birdland" and "Conception", and had multiple albums on the Billboard charts during the 1950s, 1960s, 1980s and 1990s. He died of heart failure in New York City, at the age of 91.

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This was Shearing's first album of solo piano for Concord Records, it was followed by More Grand Piano (1986).

Concord Records is an American record label owned by Concord Music Group and based in Beverly Hills, California. Concord Records was launched in 1995 as an imprint designed to reach beyond the company's foundational Concord Jazz label. The label's artists have won 14 Grammy Awards and 88 Grammy nominations.

More Grand Piano is a 1986 studio album by the pianist George Shearing, the sequel to his 1985 album Grand Piano.

Track listing

  1. "When a Woman Loves a Man" (Bernie Hanighen, Gordon Jenkins, Johnny Mercer) – 4:31
  2. "It Never Entered My Mind" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 4:48
  3. "Mack the Knife" (Marc Blitzstein, Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill) – 4:44
  4. "Nobody Else But Me" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern) – 3:31
  5. "Imitations" (George Shearing, George David Weiss) – 2:43
  6. "Taking a Chance on Love" (Vernon Duke, Ted Fetter, John La Touche) – 2:39
  7. "If I Had You" (James Campbell, Reginald Connelly, Ted Shapiro) – 4:50
  8. "How Insensitive" (Norman Gimbel, Antonio Carlos Jobim) – 3:16
  9. "You'd Be So Easy to Love" (Cole Porter) – 3:50
  10. "While We're Young" (Billy Wilder) – 5:03

Personnel

Performance

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References

  1. ↑ Allmusic review
  2. ↑ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1287. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
  3. ↑ Grand Piano at AllMusic
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