From the New York Times obituary:
George Shearing, the British piano virtuoso who overcame blindness to become a worldwide jazz star, and whose composition “Lullaby of Birdland” became an enduring jazz standard, died on Monday in Manhattan.A Shearing sampler, via YouTube:
“Conception” : “I Cover the Waterfront” : “It Never Entered My Mind” : “Lullaby of Birdland” : A conversation with Billy Taylor
[Shearing on “I Cover the Waterfront”: “I think this was written by Marlon Brando.”]
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