GEORGE SHEARING — Mellow Moods (1989) Serie 2 Double Play Compact Disc | FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

Tracklist :
1    Have You Met Miss Jones    2:08
 Lorenz Hart / Richard Rodgers
2    Laura    2:54
 Johnny Mercer / David Raksin
3    I Could Write A Book    2:08
 Lorenz Hart / Richard Rodgers
4    I'll Take Romance    2:38
 Oscar Hammerstein II / Ben Oakland
5    No Moon At All    4:39
 Redd Evans / Dave Mann
6    Stardust    2:57
 Hoagy Carmichael / Mitchell Parish
7    I Love You    2:46
 Cole Porter
8    Early Autumn    2:36
 Ralph Burns / Woody Herman / Johnny Mercer
9    My Romance    2:39
 Lorenz Hart / Richard Rodgers
10    How Long Has This Been Going On?    3:09
 George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin
11    Autumn Leaves    3:06
 Joseph Kosma / Johnny Mercer / Jacques Prévert
12    There's A Small Hotel    2:54
 Lorenz Hart / Richard Rodgers
13    Moonlight Becomes You    2:57
 Johnny Burke / James Van Heusen
14    Nina Never Knew    2:59
 Louis Alter / Milton Drake
15    Midnight Sun    2:32
 Sonny Burke / Lionel Hampton / Johnny Mercer
16    September Song    2:26
 Maxwell Anderson / Kurt Weill
Credits :
Piano – George Shearing

NANCY WILSON — Hello Young Lovers (1962-2013) FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

Most of Nancy Wilson's '60s releases for Capitol were high quality, including this, her fourth album. Hello Young Lovers contains Wilson's standard program of easy swingers and ballads that show off her impeccable phrasing while sporting George Shearing's luxurious string charts in hits hits like "Little Girl Blue" and "Back in Your Own Backyard." One also hears Wilson's burgeoning talent for vocal drama as she evokes a variety of moods on "Miss Otis Regrets" and "Little Girl Blue." Her seamless blending of Dinah Washington's bluesy delivery and Sarah Vaughan's seraphic tone also emerges as a talent that would fully flower on 1967's Welcome to My Love. For this recording, though, the listening pleasure is found mostly in her signature urbane pop sound. Stephen Cook
Tracklist :
1    A Good Man is Hard To Find 3:03
Eddie Green
2    Hello, Young Lovers 2:08
Oscar Hammerstein II / Richard Rodgers
3    Sophisticated Lady 2:34
Duke Ellington / Irving Mills
4    When a Woman Loves a Man 2:29
Bernie Hanighen / Gordon Jenkins / Johnny Mercer
5    Little Girl Blue 2:52
Lorenz Hart / Richard Rodgers
6    Nina Never Knew 2:48
Louis Alter / Milton Drake
7    You Don't Know What Love is 2:37
Gene DePaul / Don Raye
8    Put On a Happy Face 1:54
Lee Adams / Charles Strouse
9    When Sunny Gets Blue 2:58
Marvin Fisher / Jack Segal
10    Listen, Little Girl 3:15
Fran Landesman / Tommy Wolf
11    Miss Otis Regrets 3:29
Cole Porter
12    Back In Your Own Back Yard 2:52
Dave Dreyer / Al Jolson / Billy Rose
Credits :
Arranged By – George Shearing
Conductor, Orchestrated By – Milt Raskin
Photography, Cover – Capitol Photo Studio, Ken Veeder
Vocals – Nancy Wilson

GEORGE SHEARING QUINTET | RED NORVO TRIO – Midnight on Cloud 69 (1956-1993) RM | MONOAURAL | FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

Tracklist :
1. Sorry Wrong Rumba (George Shearing Quintet) (3:22)
2. Cotton Top (George Shearing Quintet) (2:50)
3. Be Bop's Fables (George Shearing Quintet) (3:05)
4. Midnight On Cloud 69 (George Shearing Quintet) (3:10)
5. Little White Lies (Red Norvo Trio) (3:50)
6. I'm Yours (Red Norvo Trio) (4:11)
7. Moon Over Miami (George Shearing Quintet) (3:13)
8. Cherokee (George Shearing Quintet) (2:44)
9. Life With Feather (George Shearing Quintet) (3:11)
10. Four Bars Short (George Shearing Quintet) (2:25)
11. Time And Tide (Red Norvo Trio) (2:38)
12. Night And Day (Red Norvo Trio) (4:09)

George Shearing Quintet (tracks #1-4, 7-10)
George Shearing - p
Marjorie Hyams - vib
Chuck Wayne - g
John Levy - b
Denzil Best - d

Red Norvo Trio (tracks #5, 6, 11, 12)
Red Norvo - vib
Tal Farlow - g
Charles Mingus - b
Note
1 to 4 & 7 to 10 recorded January 31, 1949
5 recorded October 13, 1950
6 recorded April 13, 1951
11 & 12 recorded May 3, 1950

STÉPHANE GRAPPELLY – 1935-1940 | The Classics Chronological Series – 708 (1993) FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

This Classics CD has all of the recordings made under violinist Stephane Grappelli's name during the 1935-1940 period. The earlier selections (with his Hot Four) match his violin with Django Reinhardt's guitar in what was essentially the Quintet of the Hot Club of France. There are also nine duets with Reinhardt; a couple find Grappelli switching to piano. The set concludes in 1940 with Grappelli (in London) leading an octet on two numbers that also feature the young pianist George Shearing. Scott Yanow    Tracklist + Credits :

STÉPHANE GRAPPELLY – 1941-1943 | The Classics Chronological Series – 779 (1994) FLAC (tracks), lossless

This Classics CD reissues some very rare recordings made by violinist Stephane Grappelli: all of his performances as a leader during a difficult three-year period. The violinist had decided to stay in England during World War II (when Django Reinhardt returned to France) and soon had a new group featuring the young pianist George Shearing. This CD has seven sessions with quartets and quintets along with one featuring a larger group that includes other strings and a harp. Although there are vocals on eight of the numbers (by Beryl Davis and Dave Fullerton), the swinging performances and the rarity of the recordings easily compensate. Scott Yanow        Tracklist :

PEGGY LEE / GEORGE SHEARING - Beauty and the Beat! (1959-2003) RM / FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

Upon its first release Beauty and the Beat! was billed as a live recording from a Miami convention of disc jockeys. Though Peggy Lee and George Shearing did in fact perform there (and attempts were made to record them for later release), the songs heard on the subsequent LP were recorded in the studio and overdubbed with rather obvious canned applause, announcements, and even post-production echo. Lee and Shearing, who had never recorded before, conceived a set of completely new arrangements that played to their strengths: stately blues and effervescent swing. The best of the former comes on a pair of locale-referencing quasi-blues, "I Lost My Sugar in Salt Lake City" and "You Came a Long Way From St. Louis," both of which Lee and Shearing are able to transform into languorous, respectable torch songs. The usually downcast "Blue Prelude" is actually taken at a laissez faire tempo that Lee treats well, and the original set ends with "Get Out of Town" and "Satin Doll," a pair of bemused, affectionate performances that perfectly suit the pair. Lee and Shearing's only collaboration on record -- though both would occasionally perform together thereafter -- is a supremely chilled session of late-night blues from two masters of the form. by John Bush  
Tracklist:
1    Do I Love You?    3:03
Cole Porter
2    I Lost My Sugar In Salt Lake City 2:27
John Lange / Leon René
3    If Dreams Come True 2:20
Benny Goodman / Irving Mills / Edgar Sampson
4    All Too Soon    2:35
Duke Ellington / Carl Sigman
5    Mambo In Miami    1:42
Armando Peraza
6    Isn't It Romantic?    2:54
Lorenz Hart / Richard Rodgers
7    Blue Prelude    2:06
Joe Bishop / Gordon Jenkins
8    You Came A Long Way From St. Louis 2:50   
John Benson Brooks / Bob Russell
9    Always True To You In My Fashion    1:58
Cole Porter
10    There'll Be Another Spring    2:23
Peggy Lee / Hubie Wheeler
11    Get Out Of Town    1:58
Cole Porter
12    Satin Doll    2:47
Duke Ellington / Johnny Mercer / Billy Strayhorn
13    Nobody's Heart    2:29
Lorenz Hart / Richard Rodgers
14    Don't Ever Leave Me    2:59
Oscar Hammerstein II / Jerome Kern
Performer – The George Shearing Quintet
Piano – George Shearing
Producer – David Cavanaugh
Vocals – Peggy Lee

THE GEORGE SHEARING QUINTET WITH NANCY WILSON - The Swingin's Mutual! (1961) FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

The music on The Swingin's Mutual!, a dozen selections featuring the George Shearing Quintet, includes six that have vocals by a young Nancy Wilson. This was one of Wilson's most jazz-oriented dates (even if she was never a jazz singer) and is highlighted by her vocals on "The Nearness of You" and "The Things We Did Last Summer," along with instrumental versions of "Oh! Look at Me Now," "Blue Lou," and "Lullaby of Birdland."   by Scott Yanow
Tracklist 
1 The Things We Did Last Summer 2:41  
Sammy Cahn / Jule Styne
2 All Night Long 3:06
Curtis Lewis
3 Gentleman Friend 2:03
Arnold B. Horwitt / Richard Lewine
4 Born to Be Blue 2:14
Mel Tormé / Robert Wells
5 I Remember Clifford 2:35
Benny Golson
6 On Green Dolphin Street  2:22
Bronislaw Kaper / Ned Washington
7 Let's Love Again  2:21
8 Whisper Not 2:50
Benny Golson
9 The Nearness of You  2:58
Hoagy Carmichael / Ned Washington
10 Evansville 2:03
Marjorie Ericsson
11 Don't Call Me 2:46
Marjorie Ericsson
12 Inspiration 2:14
George Shearing
13 You Are There 2:08
Karin Rybar
14 Wait Till You See Her  2:49
Lorenz Hart / Richard Rodgers
15 Blue Lou 2:16
Irving Mills / Edgar Sampson
16 Oh! Look at Me Now 2:11
Joe Bushkin / John DeVries
17 Lullaby of Birdland  2:22
George Shearing / George David Weiss
Credits
Bass – George Duvivier
Drums – Walter Bolden
Guitar – Dick Garcia
Piano – George Shearing
Vibraphone – Eddie Costa
Vocals – Nancy Wilson

THE GEORGE SHEARING QUINTET WITH NANCY WILSON 

 The Swingin's Mutual! (1961)

1992 / Capitol / FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

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