Composers Datebook for April 6, 2019 - Don Shirley

Jamaican-American pianist and composer Donald Shirley died on this date in 2013 at 86. The 2018 movie ‘Green Book’ is based on his life as a musician and his concert tour of the deep South in 1962.
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