Bobby Colomby, born Robert Wayne Colomby, is best known as drummer and founder of Blood, Sweat & Tears.
Bobby Colomby is also the uncredited drummer on John Cale and Terry Riley's collaboration album 'Church of Anthrax'.
Bobby Colomby graduated from the City College of NY with a degree in Psychology.
Bobby Colomby produced jazz bass virtuoso Jaco Pastorius' first solo album; The Jacksons' comeback album 'Destiny'; Chris Botti's albums 'December', 'When I Fall In Love', 'To Love Again' and 'Italia'; Paula Cole's album 'Courage' and Jeff Lorber's album 'He Had a Hat'.
For a few years in the late 1980s Bobby Colomby was a reporter for the television programs Entertainment Tonight and The CBS Morning Program. He also hosted In Person from the Palace.
In 2000, Bobby Colomby and Richard Marx founded Signal 21 Records. The label released only one album, Richard Marx's 'Days In Avalon', before the label folded shortly thereafter.
Factoid: Bobby's elder brother Harry Colomby was the manager of Thelonious Monk.
Bobby Colomby has performed with Don Alias, Blood Sweat & Tears, Dave Bargeron, Randy Brecker, Forrest Buchtell, David Clayton-Thomas, Thomas Dolby, Bobby Doyle, Jim Fielder, Jerry Fisher, Joe Giorgianni, The Jacksons, Dick Halligan, Jerry Hyman, Ian Hunter, Steve Kahn, Steve Katz, Tony Klatka, Al Kooper, Fred Lipsius, Tom Malone, Lou Marini, Ron McClure, Jaco Pastorius, Lew Soloff, Mike Stern, Tina Turner, Georg Wadenius, Jerry Weiss, Larry Willis, and Chuck Winfield among many others.