George Shearing 
The music that suggests the darkest corner
of a smoky bar...the sweet wild mood of a
"Latin Escapade"

Side One: 1/ Perfidia
2/ Mambo with me
3/ Without you
4/ Old Devil Moon
5/ My Musica Es Parati
6/ Anitra's Nanigo

Side Two: 1/ Yours
2/ Cuban Love Song
3/ Watch Your Step
4/ Poodle Mambo
5/ Canto Karabali
6/ Strange Enchantment

For aficionados of latin music, George Shearing plays these
"Tropical tempos" with a romantic touch all his own. He has
long been a master of jazz with a latin beat, and now, for the 
first time in a complete album, this special mastery finds fine,
& full expression.Backed by the colorful sounds of maracas,
timbale, claves and conga drums,Shearing's deft piano and his
famed quinted make music that is sultry indeed.It will lure the
shyest dancers to the floor, and thoroughly delight all listeners 
who do not choose to dance.                                                          
Released in 1956 on the Capitol label  T-737
 
 
 
 
 

George Shearing 
"Burnished Brass"

Side One: 1/ Memories of you
2/ Lulu's Back in Town
3/ If you were mine
4/ Burnished Brass
5/ These things you left me
6/ Mine

Side Two: 1/ Beautiful Love
2/ Cuckoo in the Clock
3/ Sometimes I feel like a Motherless Child
4/ Cheek to Cheek
5/ Blame it on my Youth
6/ Basie's Masement

Whenever Shearing plays alone at the piano, with his quintet,
or augmented by strings, woodwind, or voices, the music that
results is freshly minted, unusual, and wonderfully listenable.
Now, with "brass",Shearing enjoys a new kind of inspiration.
First, there is the very fact of bigness! George is playing with
large and varied backgrounds of up to sixteen brass instruments.
The power of such a grouping, mellow though it sounds here, is
undeniable.But there's one element impossible to overlook, this
  is unmistakably, a great new Shearing album.It's his swinging 
enthusiasm that makes this, from first note to last, distinctively 
Shearing and distinguished Shearing.                                          
Released in 1958 on the Capitol label 
T-1038  St-1038
 
 
 
 
 

George Shearing 
"Latin Lace"

Side One: 1/ The Story of Love
2/ Serenata
3/ Tu Mi Delirio
4/ Cali Mambo
5/ Rondo
6/ To the Ends of the Earth

Side Two: 1/ The Moon was Yellow
2/ Wonder Struck
3/ Sand in my Shoes
4/ Mambo Caribe
5/ It's not for me to say
6/ Mambo n°2

In Latin Lace,Shearing's piano, leading the way for the
quintet and a brace of latin percussionists, wends its way
through a wide variety of melodies. The shearing touch,
lends the tunes an equally wide range of sound, from the
lazy rhythms of the "siesta hour" to the sweep and tumult
 of theAmazon.With the Shearing piano as the catalyst, 
you'll find a fresh, beguiling adventure in a style perfect 
for imaginative listening in the tropical mood.                
Released in 1958 on the Capitol label 
T-1082  St-1082