Bobby Short RIP

[rostasi]

Bobby Short

[Hardbopjazz]

Wow, I just read this on line. Sad news.

[AllenLowe]

Loren Schoenberg, a friend, has led his band for some years. Bobby was a real mensch - so sorry to hear about this -

[Harold_Z]

Sorry to hear this.

[garthsj]

Bobby Short was one of those unique figures in cabaret/jazz who helped to keep great music alive. Thanks to his recordings, he will not be forgotten.

[BERIGAN]

Sad, didn't hear one word of this till I stumbled onto this thread....

I'll always remember the Charlie commericals!

[Randy Twizzle]

Rex Reed in the NY Observer has a tribute to Short

http://www.nyobserver.com/pages/onthetown.asp

Like many of Reed's tributes to the recently deceased it borders on self-parody:

"One more anecdote: One cold winter weekend, when we were both house guests at Claudette Colbert’s house in Barbados, Bobby and I were walking on the beach (a sight you don’t want to see) when we passed one of those second-rate surfside motels that cater to the worst kind of British tourists. On the wooden deck, a pudgy woman red as a boiled lobster was waving frantically with one of those floppy straw hats you buy in Caribbean airport lounges. “She knows us,” I said. “Oh, God, ignore her … too tacky for words,” scowled Bobby, whose eyesight was so bad he sometimes mistook C.E.O.’s for head waiters. I moved closer. “My God, Bobby,” I yelped. “It’s Judi Dench!” His mood did an about-face. We took her home for tea."