The George Shearing Quintet has been played on NTS shows including Thea HD, with The Nearness Of You first played on 9 December 2020.

Sir George Shearing OBE (b. August 13, 1919) is a British jazz pianist who, during the 1950s, had a popular Jazz group for MGM Records and Capitol Records. He has written over 300 compositions and has had multiple albums on the Billboard magazine charts throughout the '50s, '60s, '80s and '90s