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Comment: I note that the creator published an article about Shearer – see Alison Shearer on 23 October 2025. Paul W (talk) 16:30, 29 October 2025 (UTC)
- Comment: Some significant assertions unsupported by citations. Artist’s website is not a reliable source. Fails WP:MUSICBIO. Paul W (talk) 16:23, 29 October 2025 (UTC)
- Comment: Requires more sourcing for notability, WP:N, beyond her music releases and NYT obituary only mentions in passing. Pegnawl (talk) 00:59, 25 June 2025 (UTC)
Musical artist
Alison Shearer is an American jazz musician and composer. She co-founded PitchBlak Brass Band in 2010 and the Alison Shearer Quartet in 2015.[1]
Early life and education
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Shearer was born into a creative family. Her father, John Shearer, was a photojournalist for TIME and Look capturing the upheaval of the 1960s.[2]
She attended school in Westchester, NY and later the Manhattan School of Music.[3]
Shearer graduated from Manhattan School of Music, where she studied with jazz sax greats Dick Oatts, Steve Wilson, and Vincent Herring.[1] In 2010 she co-founded PitchBlak Brass Band, a brass band fusing New Orleans traditions with hip-hop,[4] which toured internationally and which received critical acclaim from DownBeat magazine,[4] NPR,[citation needed] Live for Live Music,[citation needed] The Wall Street Journal,[citation needed] and The Source magazine.[citation needed] In 2015 she founded the Alison Shearer Quartet.[1] She released her first self-titled debut album View from Above[5] in 2022 with her quartet[6] and was subsequently described as a force on the rise by JazzTimes.[7] Shearer released her second album with her quartet on Pinch Records in October 2025.[8]
Shearer performed on NPR’s Jazz Night in America in 2022[9] and on NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert series in 2024.[10] She has toured internationally with Red Baraat,[11] Wild Wild East,[10][9] Pitchblak Brass Band and her eponymous quartet.[12]
- ^ a b c “AlisonShearerMusic.com”. Retrieved 20 September 2025.
- ^ Seelye, Katharine (27 June 2019). “John Shearer, Who Photographed Tumultuous 1960s, Dies at 72”. New York Times.
- ^ “Alison Shearer”. All About Jazz. 1 January 2025.
- ^ a b Odell, Jennifer (February 2014). “Getting Deep and Breaking Rules”. Downbeat: 48–49.
- ^ Berlatsky, Noah (16 February 2022). “Alison Shearer debuts with a fusion of grief, joy, and jazz”. Chicago Reader.
- ^ Zivkovic, Ljubinko (18 February 2022). “SPILL ALBUM REVIEW: ALISON SHEARER – VIEW FROM ABOVE”. Spill Magazine.
- ^ Cohan, Brad (11 October 2024). “Alison Shearer: View from Above (Self-released)”. Jazztimes.
- ^ Grunenberg, Kira (1 October 2025). “Alison Shearer, In The Garden, Pinch”. Downbeat.
- ^ a b Birch, Nikki (29 December 2022). “Jazz Night In America remembers the artists we’ve lost”. NPR.
- ^ a b Contreras, Felix (5 January 2024). “Tiny Desk Concert: Sunny Jain’s Wild Wild East”. NPR.
- ^ Geledi, Sarah (11 October 2024). “Celebrate 2024 with Toast of the Nation”. NPR.
- ^ Fox, Jane (22 March 2024). “Introducing Alison Shearer, saxophonist with New Canaan Chamber Music”. New Canaan Sentinel.
