The late Bobby Short told me that he was so determined in 1971 to do a Cole Porter songbook album — which turned out to be an ambitious two LP package — that he went to his producers at Atlantic ...

This year marks the centennial of Bobby Short, the cabaret singer and pianist renowned for his 36-year tenure at the Café Carlyle in New York. The occasion is being commemorated at Jazz at Lincoln ...

Bobby Short, who died yesterday morning at age 80, was a pianist and singer universally recognized as the king of the cabaret world, and one of the all-time great interpreters of the American songbook ...

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