After he took up residence in the lounge of New York's elegant Hotel Carlyle in the late 1960s, vocalist and pianist Bobby Short became an icon of New York and American cultural life. Short called ...

Listeners tend to think of Short as the ultimate cabaret singer, but his jazz piano chops are top-notch, as he reaffirms on every track of this beguiling, small-group recording. As if to emphasize the ...

Some people are good at what they do. Other people are better. Bobby Short was the best. Preserving the art Some people are good at what they do. Other people are better. Bobby Short was the best.

Marian McPartland welcomes the king of cabaret singers- Bobby Short! In this joy-filled ETV Classics special, Piano Jazz (1986) comes to television, as Marian McPartland welcomes the king of cabaret ...

NEW YORK - Bobby Short, the suave, tuxedoed cabaret singer who epitomized Manhattan glamour and sophistication with renderings of the great American songbook, died of leukemia Monday at 80. Calling ...

"Hannah and Her Sisters" didn't do much for me. But the singer in the movie -- appearing at the Cafe Carlyle on-screen, as he did in real life -- exuded so much style, so much class and taste. He ...