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Sir George Albert Shearing(13 August 1919– 14 February 2011) was a British jazzpianist who, for many years, led a popular jazz group that recorded for Discovery Records,MGM Records,and Capitol Records. Shearing was the composer of over 300 songs, including the jazz standards\"Lullaby of Birdland\" and \"Conception\", and had multiple albums on the Billboard chartsduring the 1950s, 1960s, 1980s, and 1990s
Boldly One of a Kind Hand Autographed Signed Musical Quotation Cole Porter\'s
\"Dream Dancing\" on Personal Gold Engraved Stationery Dated March 31, 1998.
The music notations \"Dream Dancing\" most likely penned by his personal assistant,
since Mr. Shearing used Braille music notations rather than standard ink-on-paper.
7 1/4\" X 10 3/8\" Excellent Condition.
Awards and honorsShearing performing for Gerald Ford and Urho Kekkonen, the president of Finland, on 3 August 1976
- Performed at Royal Command Performancefor Queen Elizabeth IIand Prince Philip
- Performed for US Presidents Gerald Ford(1976), Jimmy Carter, and Ronald Reagan
- 1968 Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement
- 1975 Honorary degree of Doctor of Musicfrom WestminsterCollege, SLC Utah
- 1978 Horatio AlgerAward for Distinguished Americans
- 1983 Grammy Award, An Evening with George Shearing & Mel Torme
- 1984 Grammy Award, Top Drawer
- 1993 Ivor Novello Awardfor Lifetime Achievement
- 1994 Honorary degree of Doctor of Music from Hamilton Collegein New York
- 1996 Included in Queen\'s Birthday Honours List, invested by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for \"services to music and Anglo-US relations.\"
- 1998 Received the first American Music Awardfrom the National Arts Club, New York City
- 2002 Honorary degree of Doctor of Music from DeauwUniversityin Indiana
- 2003 Lifetime Achievement Award from BBC Jazz Awards
- 2007 Knighted for services to music
