Below is an article that appeared in the Phuket Gazette in March of 2007. Written by Marque A. Rome, it was entitled “The Piano Man”.

Jimmy Cicero was playing the baby grand piano in the classy Horizon cocktail lounge, which is located in the Dusit Thani Laguna hotel in Phuket. I went to see him recently, on a Thursday night. Every seat was taken – a rare event for most such venues, where patrons pause only because they must. But Jimmy is a musician of rare musicality, and he packs ’em in nightly.

A group of hip-looking Germans pulled up closer to the piano while he intoned the refrain to Breaking Up is Hard to Do, one of his best tunes. Jimmy’s voice is a silky tenor. Kind of like Tony Bennett’s, one that never strains. His delivery, moreover, can be compared with that of Mel Torme, called the greatest voice in jazz.

The German group were regulars: “Hoo! Jimmy,” they called out, applauding, then lamenting audibly as he announced that the next number would be his last for the evening. “I hope to see you a