CY COLEMAN

We're doing a workshop over the first two weeks of December, I believe, with Graciella Daniele directing it.

I used to perform all the time but I haven't performed in New York in a very long time.

When I was four years old, my mother owned some tenements in the Bronx.

So I went into jazz and performed in jazz clubs all over the country.

My background was in performing originally.

To put it in musician's terms, my chops are good.

I'm lucky to be in a profession where you can keep getting better.

Since I was the solo artist as well as the writer for the songs, I figured I had enough credits on it already.

I'm trying to get hold of them... the trouble is a lot of the companies that recorded and produced the albums went bust, so I don't know where to get the masters.

I have a bunch of albums I would love to get re-released.

I'm lucky to be in a profession where you can keep getting better.

I decided during my teens that I wasn't going to have the life of a concert pianist, much to the chagrin of a lot of people who had put a lot of money into me!

Someone skipped on the rent and they left behind a huge upright piano, which got moved into our apartment so the other apartment could get rented out. I took to it and started playing.

We're doing a workshop over the first two weeks of December, I believe, with Graciella Daniele directing it.

I used to perform all the time but I haven't performed in New York in a very long time.

Since I was the solo artist as well as the writer for the songs, I figured I had enough credits on it already.

I have a bunch of albums I would love to get re-released.

My background was in performing originally.

So I went into jazz and performed in jazz clubs all over the country.

To put it in musician's terms, my chops are good.

When I was four years old, my mother owned some tenements in the Bronx.

I'm trying to get hold of them... the trouble is a lot of the companies that recorded and produced the albums went bust, so I don't know where to get the masters.