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!

One final musical with a Coleman score played in Los Angeles at the Mark Taper Forum Dec. Later in the decade he collaborated on Welcome to the Club (1988) with A. He is survived by his wife Shelby Coleman and their adopted daughter Lily Cye Coleman (born in 2000).

Cy Coleman (June 14 1929 – November 18 2004) was an American composer songwriter and jazz pianist.