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About Don Shirley
Donald Walbridge Shirley was an American jazz pianist and composer. Shirley's piano skills were recognized early in his life. He began his career as a composer and virtuoso performer at a young age. Shirley's music is hard to categorize. As an arranger-composer he treated each piece of music as a new composition, not just an arrangement. Shirley played standards in a non-standard way. He was a virtuoso performer, playing everything from show tunes, to ballads, to his personal arrangements of Negro spirituals, to jazz, and always with the overtone of a classically trained musician who has utmost respect for the music he is playing. 
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Don Shirley's Timeline
| 1927 |
January 29, 1927
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Pensacola, Escambia County, FL, United States
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| 2013 |
April 6, 2013
Age 86
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Manhattan, New York City, New York County, New York, United States
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