Londonborn classicallytrained jazz pianist came to nyc in the 1940s and helped transform the genre for decades. This was the second session of ray bryants trio date for epic. George shearing solo piano arrangements of jazz standards and popular tunes. George shearing on the street where you live, from the album the shearing piano if you would like the sheet music in pdf format, please feel free to send me an email at rhtranscriptions. George shearing interpretations for piano deluxe edition jazz. Complete piano transcriptions to evans 1968 solo release featuring. Service help you to transcribe any piece transform the music into sheet. 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. Shop and buy the artistry of george shearing sheet music. Congenitally blind, he was the youngest of nine children.
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Pianist sir george shearing 19192011 was himself an integral part of the be bop jazz movement in the late 1940s. George shearing enjoys an international reputation as a pianist, arranger and composer. The paperback of the george shearing interpretations for piano. Piano sheet music in pdf format, classical, jazz, blues, standards, rock, pop, movie music, etc.
Lullaby of birdland earl klugh transcription youtube. George shearing lullaby of birdland sheet music pdf notes. Jazz piano transcriptions recommended jazz advanced piano. Download george shearing lullaby of birdland sheet music notes and chords for piano transcription. Piano transcriptions archive including more than 950 transcriptions in pdf of popular jazz pianist. Equally at home on the concert stage as in jazz clubs, shearing is recognized for inventive, orchestrated jazz. This collection has been in production for at least the. Jazz standards songs and instrumentals lullaby of birdland. They completed a take of philadelphia bound later recorded by the jo jones trio, but their take of pawn ticket was apparently unsuccessful, as it was never released. Earl hines modern piano transcriptions 1946 jazz songbook. This is one of the earliest releases to feature george shearing exclusively as a solo pianist, and the cd reissue of the long unavailable lp adds ten previously unissued tracks. Shop our newest and most popular george shearing sheet music such as lullaby of birdland, over the rainbow and ebb tide, or click the button above to browse all george shearing sheet music. Piano play jazz piano transcriptions service recently. He is rather surprisingly lowkey on most of these interpretations, even though they are mostly ballads, possibly because of capitols original marketing concept.
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George shearing sheet music to download top quality pdfs. My biggest piece of advice would be to listen to players such as barry harris, wynton kelly, bill evans, and of course george shearing who pioneered the block chord style. The pianist george shearing, who has died aged 91 of heart failure, was the first postwar british jazz musician to move permanently to the us and build a solid career there, effectively clearing. The artistry of george shearing by george shearing book. Support me on patreon to access new pdf transcriptions and patro. George shearing piano interpretations vol 1 free download as pdf file. Rather than sitting on my hard drive unused and unnoticed, ive posted them here so that other people might benefit from the hours ive spent on them. George shearing interpretations for piano deluxe edition va great jazz piano solos book 1. Shearing was born in the battersea area of london, united kingdom.
Shearings tasty rhythm patterns, such as in lullaby of birdland, his amazing harmonic progressions, such as in somewhere over the rainbow, his sense of musical humor, such as in all i do is dream of you, and also a touch. George shearingkurt weill mack the knife piano solo p. The worlds best piano arrangements 100 golden standarts arranged by the greatest pianists of the century. Instantly view and print george shearing piano sheet music online again. Several current artists may not have the name recognition of. One of the most popular pages on the internet for intermediate to very advanced piano solo, contains jazz transcriptions from current and past masters, and arrangements by. How to play block chords jazz piano the 4 way close shearing. Descriptions of musical examples and transcriptions from recordings.
The trio first recorded on april 3, 1956, with drummer kenny clarke. George shearing august 1919 february 14, 2011 was a wellknown jazz pianist and inventor of the famous shearing sound. Bop cool latin jazz swing west coast jazz world fusion american popular song jazz instrument piano jazz vocal pop mainstream jazz choral keyboard. Walter donaldson, abe lyman again george shearing dorcas cochran, lionel newman anastasia george shearing paul francis webster, alfred newman april love george shearing paul francis webster. Jazz piano transcriptions archive include about 950 piano. Jazz piano transcriptions pdf download jazz piano sheet music piano solos from original recordings, erroll garner, fats waller, james p. George shearings gentle piano jazz on riffin radio show today at 4 pm. Shearing unique style of clustering is well represented in this book. It offers pdf sheet music files plus interactive sheet music for realtime transposition.
George shearing on piano jazz in shearings second appearance on the program from 1987, host marian mcpartland reminisces with her fellow countryman about obscure british tunes, and the two have. George shearing on the street where you live piano. Sir george albert shearing, obe august 1919 14 february 2011 was a british jazz pianist who for many years led a popular jazz group that recorded for discovery records, mgm records and capitol records. George shearings autobiography lullaby of birdland is available at. Block chords, 4way close and drop 2 harmony is a huge of study. This page contains links to pdf files of various transcription work ive done throughout my career.
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