It was well after dark on a Saturday night in January 1963 when the Don Shirley Trio took the stage in Manitowoc, Wisconsin. The program of show tunes, jazz and classical music, the local paper ...

Don Shirley combined classical, jazz, and spiritual influences on the many recordings he released in the 1950s and 60s, making him a pianist beyond easy definition. A forgotten figure in recent ...

with the trio who wrote and directed the film, Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker. What was the origin of “Don’t call me Shirley”? Jerry Zucker: The origin of that joke is similar ...