Tommy Dorsey Livin' in a Great Big Way Peter J. Levinson Da Capo Press: 354 pp., ... music alone was never enough for Dorsey. He was a ferociously competitive businessman, ...

The Fabulous Dorseys (1947) 1/28/2022 | 1h 28m 16s Video has Closed Captions | CC. The story of Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, two brothers who rise to be jazz/swing bandleaders. Aired 01/28/2022 ...

A hundred years after Dorsey’s birth, Tommy Dorsey is a legend in the Schuylkill County coal “patches” where his father, “Pop” Dorsey, molded him into an icon of the “swing” era in ...

It was Halloween, and Tommy Dorsey and Frank Sinatra were performing for a crowd of 10,000. Sinatra wasn’t quite world famous yet and neither was The Palladium—but both were well on their way.

Jimmy Dorsey was born in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania in 1904, his younger brother Tommy in Mahoney Plane in 1905. Their father, Thomas Francis Dorsey Sr., was a coal miner turned music teacher and ...

Bobby Byrne, 88, a noted trombonist of the 1930s and '40s who played with the Dorsey brothers before fronting his own big bands, died Nov. 25 at a care facility in Irvine.

At 91, Buddy Morrow had to be helped onstage to lead the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra in Ormond Beach, Fla., on Sept. 24, but once the music started, his energy never wavered. He even played the ...