In 1962, casually racist Italian-American bouncer Tony "Lip" Vallelonga and Don Shirley, a gifted Jamaican-American musician, had very little in common — yet a road trip through the South led to these ...

The true story behind the 1962 trip that paired Tony Vallelonga with pianist Don Shirley in the Jim Crow South. If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may ...