It was well after dark on a Saturday night in January 1963 when the Don Shirley ... that year, Shirley hired a white driver, a gregarious Italian-American bouncer known as Tony Lip, to handle ...

The writer's father Tony ... Don Shirley (Mahershala Ali), a world-class African-American pianist who embarked on a concert tour of the Deep South in 1962 along with his driver and bodyguard Tony ...

In 1962, tough bouncer Frank "Tony Lip" Vallelonga searches for work while ... be the driver for African-American classical pianist Don Shirley for a concert tour into the Deep South states.

In 1962, tough bouncer Frank "Tony Lip" Vallelonga searches for work while ... be the driver for African-American classical pianist Don Shirley for a concert tour into the Deep South states.