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Jazz Great George Shearing Dies at 91

   Doug Levine  February 14, 2011
   A  1968 file photo shows actress Lynn Redgrave (L) and George Shearing
   at an Arts and Entertainment Network Party in New York

Photo: AP

   A  1968 file photo shows actress Lynn Redgrave (L) and George Shearing
   at an Arts and Entertainment Network Party in New York

   Famed  jazz  pianist  and  composer  George Shearing, 91, died Monday,
   February  14  of  heart failure in New York City. Shearing was born in
   England but settled in the United States in 1947. His recording career
   lasted  more than six decades and included albums with some of the top