George Shearing

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George Shearing (13 August 1919 – February 14, 2011) was a well-known jazz pianist and inventor of the famous "Shearing Sound": a form of smooth cocktail jazz characterised by block chords played on the piano along with similar chords played on the vibraphone. Shearing was born in the Battersea area of London, United Kingdom. Congenitally blind, he was the youngest of nine children. He started to learn piano at the age of three. After limited training and extensive listening to recorded jazz <

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1. A short history of<i>SHELX</i>

   · 2007 · cited 79,651x

2. Bias in meta-analysis detected by a simple, graphical test

   · 1997 · cited 47,787x

3. Crystal structure refinement with<i>SHELXL</i>

   · 2015 · cited 40,064x

4. <i>SHELXT</i>– Integrated space-group and crystal-structure determination

   · 2015 · cited 26,949x

5. A new and rapid colorimetric determination of acetylcholinesterase activity

   · 1961 · cited 23,020x

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