I too saw George Shearing perform live, accompanied only by Don Thompson on bass, in a small room at the Sheraton Hotel in Station Square, across the river from downtown Pittsburgh in 1986. Hardly ...

Charlie Haden has travelled millions of miles around the world on airplanes going back to the late 1950s, when he was bassist in Ornette Coleman’s group. He’s told me some funny and ribald stories ...

Shearing was born in 1919 in the Battersea area of London. Congenitally blind, he was the youngest of nine children. His father delivered coal and his mother cleaned trains at night after caring for ...