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Donald Walbridge Shirley (January 29, 1927 – April 6, 2013) was an American classical and jazz pianist and composer. He recorded many albums for Cadence Records during the 1950s and 1960s, experimenting with jazz with a classical influence. He wrote organ symphonies, piano concerti, a cello concerto, three string quartets, a one-act opera ...
Dec 10, 2018 · Don Shirley was a 20th-century Jamaican American pianist and composer who often performed with the Don Shirley Trio. A chapter of his life story was the subject of the 2018 film 'Green Book.'
Nov 26, 2018 · Everything in writer Nick Vallelonga’s upcoming film Green Book, he insists, is true. The film follows pianist Don Shirley and he travels through the Deep South in the era of Jim Crow and forms a friendship with his driver, white, Italian-American bouncer, Tony Lip. Vallelonga perhaps has some credibility in his claim as Tony Lip, after all ...
Jan 29, 2021 · The film 'Green Book' is based on a real-life road trip taken by Black pianist Don Shirley and white bouncer Tony Lip and the unlikely friendship that resulted from the journey. In 1962, casually ...
Nov 19, 2018 · Yes. Like in the Green Book movie, Tony Lip's larger-than-life personality contrasted the much more reserved virtuoso Don Shirley, who spoke with an upper-class enunciation and refused to pick up food with his hands. In the film, we see Lip persuade Shirley to try fried chicken.
Nov 21, 2018 · Green Book, out Nov. 16, tells an incredible true story of the friendship between Jamaican-American classical pianist Dr. Don Shirley (Mahershala Ali) and his Italian-American driver Tony “Tony ...
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Feb 17, 2019 · Don Shirley (1927-2013) February 17, 2019 contributed by: Euell A. Dixon. Don Shirley album cover, 1957. Donald Walbridge “Don” Shirley was an American classical and jazz composer and pianist. Shirley was born on January 29, 1927, to Stella Gertrude Young and Edwin Samuel Shirley in Pensacola, Florida. His mother and father were Jamaican ...
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