Draft:Alison Shearer

{{Infobox musical artist

| name = Alison Shearer

| occupation = {{hlist|Musician|Composer}}

| genre = {{hlist|Jazz|Jazz Fusion|Classical|R&B|Hip Hop}}

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Alison Shearer is an American jazz musician and composer.

She released her self-titled debut album View from Above in 2022 and was subsequently described as a force on the rise by JazzTimes.{{cite news |url=https://jazztimes.com/reviews/albums/alison-shearer-view-from-above-self-released/ | title= Alison Shearer: View from Above (Self-released) | first= Brad|last= Cohan | newspaper=Jazztimes | date=11 October 2024}}

She has toured internationally with Red Baraat, Pitchblak Brass Band and her eponymous quartet.{{cite news |url=https://www.newcanaansentinel.com/2024/03/22/introducing-alison-shearer-saxophonist-with-new-canaan-chamber-music/ | title= Introducing Alison Shearer, saxophonist with New Canaan Chamber Music | first= Jane|last= Fox | newspaper=New Canaan Sentinel | date=22 March 2024}}

Early life and education

Shearer was born into a creative family. Her father, John Shearer, was a photojournalist for TIME and Look capturing the upheaval of the 1960s.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/27/arts/john-shearer-dead.html | title= John Shearer, Who Photographed Tumultuous 1960s, Dies at 72 | first= Katharine|last= Seelye | newspaper=New York Times | date=27 June 2019}}

She attended school in Westchester, NY and later the Manhattan School of Music.{{cite news |url=https://www.allaboutjazz.com/musicians/alison-shearer/ | title= Alison Shearer | newspaper=All About Jazz | date=1 January 2025}} In 2010 she formed Pitchblak Brass Band a brass band fusing hip hop and New Orleans second line music which received critical acclaim from DownBeat Magazine, NPR, Live for Live Music, The Wall Street Journal, and The Source Magazine.{{cite news |url=https://www.downbeat.com/digitaledition/2014/DB1402/single_page_view/48.html | title= Getting Deep and Breaking Rules| first= Jennifer|last= Odell | newspaper=Downbeat | date=1 February 2014}}

Draft:Alison Shearer

Early life and education

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