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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Billy Stritch returns to Crazy Coqs with a band new show spotlighting the music of legendary tunesmith, Cy Coleman. He'll be joined this time by a swinging jazz trio - all the better to perfectly ...

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 ...

From Sweet Charity to City of Angels, "Witchcraft" to "The Best is Yet to Come," Cy Coleman lived on both Broadway and the pop charts, with firm roots in the jazz world. He wrote standards made famous ...

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.

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 ...

Billy Porter brings a heavy-handed touch as the director and adapter of this 1997 musical about prostitutes and pimps in Manhattan’s bad old days. By Elisabeth Vincentelli The actor is directing an ...