He's been playing piano and singing at the Carlyle Hotel in New York City since 1968. He's considered one of the great cabaret singers of our time. The 79-year-old song stylist was slated to retire ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Short died of leukemia at New York Presbyterian Hospital, said Virginia Wicks, a Los Angeles-based publicist. The hospital did not immediately return a call seeking further detail.As times changed and ...

And before we go, a song by Bobby Short, who died this morning in New York. He was a cabaret singer and New York fixture for decades, known mostly for taking his music from the so-called great ...