All About Jazz is celebrating Tommy Dorsey's birthday today! Trombonist Thomas “Tommy" Dorsey was born in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, the younger brother of famed jazz clarinetist, Jimmy Dorsey. In ...

Buddy Morrow (a.k.a. Muni Zudekoff), big band era trombonist (with a mastery of the upper range), hit-making recording artist, studio musician and most notably, bandleader of The Tommy Dorsey ...

The story of Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, two brothers who rise to be jazz/swing bandleaders. Fictionalized biographical film tells the story of Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey. Raised in a Pennsylvania coal-mining ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X A lot has been written about Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey, musicians and bandleaders who soared from ...

Note: This story and headline were updated to clarify when Frank Sinatra left the band and who replaced him as singer. My recent column on Red’s Kettle Inn has sparked a number of readers helping with ...

Many people today have no memory of Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey. But back in the days of swing they were right up there in popularity on the Big Band stages with Glenn Miller and other stars. They even ...

No musician evokes the Big Band era more than Tommy Dorsey. Drawing on new research and scores of interviews with musicians who knew him, Peter Levinson has written a new biography on the seminal ...

GENESEO — Swing and dance enthusiasts will have a chance to travel back in time and hear the sounds and rhythm of the World War II-era big bands when The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra performs Sept. 20 in ...

The rise and rise of the fabulous Dorsey brothers is charted in this whimsical step down memory lane. Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey play themselves in this vehicle for their excellent music. From being ...