Jazz Articles about George Shearing

George Shearing Quintet: Christmas with the George Shearing Quintet

by Douglas Payne
December 1, 1998

One of the great combos in jazz, the George Shearing Quintet, returns to deck the halls with boughs of warm, swinging and imaginatively considered holiday music. Christmas With The George Shearing Quintet is the pianist's seventh Telarc CD, and the quintet's first since 1994's excellent That Shearing Sound, itself the first Shearing quintet recording in nearly two decades. Mr. Shearing's popular, long-lasting quintet (1947-78) was predicated on the warm, spirited sound he created by combining piano, ...