GEORGE SHEARING - MOOD LATINO

GEORGE SHEARING
Shearing, who was born blind, began playing the piano at the age of three. Later, picked up the jazz influence from Teddy Wilson and Fats Waller. In the late 1930s, he started playing professionally and made his first recordings in 1937 under the aegis of fellow Brit Leonard Feather. He became a star in Britain, performing for the BBC. Then, emigrated to New York City in 1947. Once there, Shearing quickly absorbed bebop into his bloodstream, replacing Garner in the Oscar Pettiford Trio and leading a quartet in tandem with Buddy DeFranco. In 1949, he formed the first and most famous of his quintets, which included Marjorie Hyams on vibes (thus striking an important blow for emerging female jazz Instrumentalists), Chuck Wayne on guitar, John Levy on bass and Denzil Best on drums. Shearing's main claim to fame was the invention of a unique quintet sound, derived from a combination of piano, vibraphone, electric guitar, bass and drums. Within this context, Shearing would play in a style he called "locked hands," which he picked up and refined from Milt Buckner's early-'40s work with the Lionel Hampton band, as well as Glenn Miller's sax section and the King Cole Trio, stating the melody on the piano with closely knit, harmonized block chords, with the vibes and guitar tripling the melody in unison.
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During his Capitol years, pianist George Shearing recorded several Latin-flavored albums which generally found his popular piano-vibes-guitar-bass-drums Quintet augmented by the congas of Armando Peraza. For this particular album not only is Peraza added to the group but so are a couple of other percussionists and an unidentified flutist. The Quintet sound is still quite dominant during the rhythmic easy-listening set with the music ranging from "Blue Moon" and "You and the Night and the Music" to "Jackie's Mambo" and "Say 'Si Si'." The performances on this LP have not yet been reissued on CD. (Scott Yanow, All Music Guide )
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MOOD LATINO
Mood Latino (Capitol 1962)

PERSONNELl:
George Shearing - piano
Armando Perazza - congas
(*) Os demais componentes do grupo não foram identificados na ficha técnica do álbum.

TRACKS/FAIXAS:

01 BLUE MOON
02 DAY BY DAY
03 YESTERDAY'S CHILD
04 SALUD
05 YOU AND THE NIGHT AND THE MUSIC
06 TINTILIN
07 THE NIGHT IS YOUNG AND YOU ARE SO BEAUTIFUL
08 JACKIE'S MAMBO
09 ALL THROUGH THE DAY
10 SAY "SI SI"
11 BLUE RAINBOW
12 TE ARANGO LA CABEZA

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