Trombonist Thomas "Tommy" Dorsey was born in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, the younger brother of famed jazz clarinetist, Jimmy Dorsey. In early years he was equally well-known as both trumpet and ...

Bandleader Jimmy Dorsey, a Shenandoah native, seen on “The Great Jimmy Dorsey” (1957), was born Feb. 29, 1904, 120 years ago in a leap year. With his younger brother, Tommy Dorsey, he was a ...

Tommy Dorsey, a superstar orchestra leader in the Big Band era, was a complex, driven man of many parts, some brilliant and some wretched, as demonstrated in Peter J. Levinson’s compelling &#… ...

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 ...

A major big band leader is the subject of a new book: Tommy Dorsey: Livin' in a Great Big Way. With his brother Jimmy, Dorsey helped define American popular music from the 1920s through the mid ...

Jean Gower was 23 and had two small children when big band leader Tommy Dorsey played a trombone solo in his hometown of Mahanoy Plane for troops returning from World War II. Sixty years later, she… ...

Tommy Dorsey was one of the most prolific big band musicians and orchestra leaders from the 1930s through the mid 1950s.

The only orchestra with the rights to perform classics made famous by Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey will be in concert today.

Raised on Dorsey music and hired as a member of the Dorsey Orchestra a few years after the bandleader’s death in 1956, Tole has an understanding of Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, which he explained in ...

Jazz musician Jimmy Dorsey's bio, concert & touring information, albums, reviews, videos, photos and more.