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Survival Kit
Sunday, April 11, 2004
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George ShearingGeorge Shearing
In George Shearing’s autobiography, Lullaby of Birdland, he writes that “living in a world in which sound plays the most important role has always been a great stimulus to me as a musician.” The British-born pianist has never let his inability to see interfere with one of the longest and most prolific careers in jazz history. His quintet has been called “the most popular jazz group on the planet”, so popular that Jack Kerouac even called him “Old God Shearing” in On the Road. Let’s find out what he would consider the essentials for his survival kit.
HIS LIST:
*a tuned piano
*the novel "War of the Roses" in braille
*cd: Preludes and Fugues of Bach -- Andras Schiff, pianist
*Jimmy Lunceford cd
*braille music -- Well-Tempered Clavier
*any recording of The New York Voices
*Braille book: Liar's Poker: rising through the wreckage on Wall Street (Michael Lewis)
*video: "Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller, with secondary audio programming for the blind
*a tuned piano
*the novel "War of the Roses" in braille
*cd: Preludes and Fugues of Bach -- Andras Schiff, pianist
*Jimmy Lunceford cd
*braille music -- Well-Tempered Clavier
*any recording of The New York Voices
*Braille book: Liar's Poker: rising through the wreckage on Wall Street (Michael Lewis)
*video: "Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller, with secondary audio programming for the blind
