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John Pizzarelli with the George Shearing Quintet. The Rare Delight of You. Telarc Jazz CD-83546, 2002.

At this point in his career-one that has spanned almost sixty-five years--it seems rather uncharitable to write off George Shearing as a lightweight. But critics have been doing just that since his earliest recordings as a leader, and if they have not always been charitable, they have also not always been wrong. Shearing's style is polite, elegant, and sometimes shallow, and many of his recordings have indeed amounted to little more than gently swinging ear candy. The same cannot quite be said of guitarist and singer John Pizzarelli, though he shares with Shearing an unapologetic love of pre-bop jazz and a tendency to smooth out rough edges in favor of a ...

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