Cy Coleman (born Seymour Kaufman) was an American composer, songwriter, and jazz pianist. Coleman was born Seymour Kaufman on June 14, 1929, in New York City to Eastern European Jewish parents, and ...

About the Album: Before he was a noted composer of such shows as Little Me, Sweet Charity, Barnum and On the Twentieth Century, Cy Coleman was the favorite of the New York cabaret and supper club ...

Cy Coleman’s success as a popular songwriter and a composer for musical theater overshadowed his effectiveness and influence as a jazz pianist. Nonetheless, as this album reminds us, he could be a ...

This week - Friday, April 6th, 2018 Harbinger Records is releasing CY COLEMAN A Jazzman's Broadway (Jamaica, Flower Drum Song, South Pacific) HCD 3401. Harbinger loves composer/jazz pianist Cy Coleman ...

NEW YORK — Cy Coleman is not easily encapsulated, and that would please him. Those of us who knew him appreciated his depth, wisdom, humor, style and contradictorily chameleon qualities that also ...

The musical theater has given jazz musicians a wealth of material to riff on, from Louis Armstrong warbling "Mack the Knife" to John Coltrane covering "My Favorite Things." But what has jazz given in ...

Their music sticks to the soul, and Cy was a real Broadway writer." Coleman, an accomplished jazz pianist, was known for his rhythmic, up-tempo style. His pop songs, which also included "Firefly" and ...

Cy Coleman, who composed the ebullient musical scores of such Broadway hits as "Sweet Charity," "On the Twentieth Century," "The Will Rogers Follies" and "City of Angels," died Nov. 18 of a heart ...

The Cy Coleman celebration “The Best Is Yet to Come” might as well be titled “Witchcraft” (another of his early hits), so persuasive is the case made for the tunesmith’s devilish alchemy in melding ...

Cy Coleman, composer of the Broadway musicals "Sweet Charity" and "City of Angels" as well as such pop standards as "Witchcraft" and "The Best Is Yet to Come," has died of heart failure. He was 75.