Don Shirley
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American-Jamaican jazz pianist and composer
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Vinony files it under 1927 births, 2013 deaths and 20th-century African-American musicians.
Its subject is documented across 24 Wikipedia language editions.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Gothic Lovecraft
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- Monte-Carlo
- Active from
- 1937-01-08
Discography
- Born to Sing the Blues1957
- The Bewitching Miss Bassey1959
- The Fabulous Shirley Bassey1959
- Shirley Bassey1961
- Let's Face the Music1962
- Shirley Bassey Sings The Hit Song From Oliver Plus Other Popular Selections1962
- Shirley Stops the Shows1965
- I’ve Got a Song for You1966
- And We Were Lovers1967
- 12 of Those Songs1968
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 28,066
- Total plays
- 264,263
Tags
Donald Walbridge Shirley (January 29, 1927 – April 6, 2013) was an American classical and jazz pianist and composer. He recorded many albums for Cadence 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, works for organ, piano and violin, a symphonic tone poem based on the novel Finnegans Wake by James Joyce, and a set of "Variations" on the legend of Orpheus in the U
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Don
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Jamaica
- Place of birth
- Kingston
- Place of death
- Manhattan
- Occupation
- composer
- Educated at
- Saint Petersburg Conservatory
- Genre
- jazz
- Instrument
- pipe organ
- Record label
- Columbia Records
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- date of death
- 2013-04-06
- date of birth
- 1927-01-19
- start of work period
- 1945-00-00
- name in native language
- Donald Walbridge Shirley
- end of work period
- 2013-00-00
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