{"id":4900,"date":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jazzusa.com\/george-shearing-like-fine-wine\/"},"modified":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","slug":"george-shearing-like-fine-wine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=4900","title":{"rendered":"George Shearing &#8211; Like Fine Wine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/storypix\/LikeFineWine.jpg\" width=\"115\" height=\"115\" alt=\"Like Fine Wine\" align=\"left\" border=\"1\"\/><font size=\"3\" color=\"Blue\" face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:16px\"><strong>Like Fine Wine<\/strong><\/font><br \/><font size=\"4\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:18px\" color=\"Blue\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\">  <strong>George Shearing  <\/strong><\/font><br \/><font face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" size=\"1\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:11px\">(Mack Avenue Records  &#8211; 2004) <br \/> by Paula Edelstein<\/font><br \/><font size=\"2\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:13px\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" color=\"#000000\">  The legendary George Shearing is in top form on this excellent collection of jazz and Broadway standards. Shearing re-interprets John Coltrane&#8217;s classic &#8220;Giant Steps&#8221; with finesse and offers a romantic candlelight ambience on &#8220;All Too Soon.&#8221; His ability to state melodies and improvisations through chords are reminiscent of Errol Garner&#8217;s classic treatment of some of your favorite songs but it is the overall song selection and use of the guitar and bass  which makes this recording different. <\/p>\n<p>  There are no drums on this set, just the rhythmic nuance and percussive treatments from Neil Swainson&#8217;s superior acoustic bass playing and Shearing choice of chords. &#8220;So Rare,&#8221; is a welcome addition to this program since this song is rarely revisited by jazz musicians. Reg Schwager&#8217;s extended guitar solo emerges from a clearly stated melody and allows Shearing to beautifully interact with a lovely solo of his own. The trio is LIKE FINE WINE, they just get better with age.    <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"> <font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" color=\"#000000\" style=\"font-size:14px\">    <br \/>   Reprinted with permission of&#8230;<br \/><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" color=\"#000000\" style=\"font-size:14px\">    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soundsoftimelessjazz.com\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/sotjlogo.gif\" width=\"540\" height=\"100\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a>    <\/font><\/p>\n<p>      <cfinclude template=\"adbanner.asp\"><?php require($DOCUMENT_ROOT . \"_footer.htm\");   ??><\/cfinclude><\/font><\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like Fine Wine George Shearing (Mack Avenue Records &#8211; 2004)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}