Event Summary
Pikes Peak Jazz & Swing Society 2nd Sunday Jazz presents "Mostly Shearing"
Sir George Shearing enjoyed an international reputation as a pianist, arranger, and composer. Equally at home on the concert stage as in jazz clubs, Shearing remains recognized for inventive, orchestrated jazz. He wrote more than 300 compositions, including "Lullaby of Birdland," which has become a jazz standard.
The quintet opens and closes each set with a variety of classic jazz selections from the Great American Songbook. The centerpiece of the sets feature the “George Shearing Sound” from his quintets of the late 1940s through the 1960s, including Shearing classics like, September in the Rain, Bernie’s Tune, Perfidia, Autumn in New York, Lullaby of Birdland, Jordu, and more.
The 3rd set continues the tradition of The Pikes Peak Jazz and Swing Society’s Second Sunday Jazz Affair with a jam session where attending musicians are invited 'sit-in'...always a highlight of the PPJASS Second Sunday experience!
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Also Occurs On
- Sunday, October 12
