Bobby Colomby was a founder and innovative jazz-rock fusion drummer of the group Blood, Sweat & Tears. He graduated from the City College of NY with a degree in Psychology and his elder brother was a manager of Thelonious Monk. He produced jazz bass virtuoso Jaco Pastorius' first solo album, the Jackson's comeback album, Destiny and has produced Chris Botti's "December" "When I Fall In Love" and "To Love Again". Blood, Sweat & Tears was an American music group, formed in New York City in 1967, which fused jazz and rock or pop music into a hybrid of what came to be known as jazz-rock. They are considered, by and large, to be the first or among the first of... Thelonious Monk, as featured on the cover of his 1956 album, Brilliant Corners (1958 reissue cover shown) Thelonious Sphere Monk (October 10, 1917 – February 17, 1982) was a jazz pianist and composer. ...

Blood, Sweat & Tears' groundbreaking 1968 album of the same name defined a new genre of music that inspired a generation of other innovative jazz-rock groups. Colomby's sophisticated and deft rhythms alternately colored, and then drove, the top-grade musicians through numerous hits spawned in their many albums.

Married to Donna Abbott, a graphic designer and native of California.