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In the exclusive coterie of great jazz musicians, none has had to overcome a handicap so devastatingly limiting as that of pianist George Shearing-the handicap of having been born in England. That he was also born blind seems not to bother him very much. So goes the story in his pleasantly conversational autobiography, to some extent the fruit of a collaboration with British jazz writer and broadcaster Shipton (A New History of Jazz). Together they have produced a book that is tightly edited and true ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More