Album Review Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra: March / June 1940 Broadcasts to South America. by Jack Bowers May 1, 2001. Tommy Dorsey’s orchestra, which had gone into a mild decline in the late ’30s, ...

As leader of the Tommy Dorsey Band, Dorsey hired some of the best musicians of the 1930s. They included the incomparable drummer Buddy Rich, legendary jazz trombonist Jack Teagarden and classy ...

Drummer Played With Big-Band, Jazz Greats. ... Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey and Count Basie, died Feb. 14 in California of complications from a hip fracture he suffered in November. ...

The postwar Dorsey orchestra also featured arrangements by Bill Finegan, who had worked with Glenn Miller before the war and who would go on to form his own big band with Eddie Sauter in the 1950s ...

TOMMY DORSEY: LIVIN’ IN A GREAT BIG WAY: A BIOGRAPHY By Peter J. Levinson Da Capo, $27.50, 352 pages REVIEWED BY WILLIAM H. PRITCHARD It’s my regret that, although I lived in a town that had a ...

He brought his entire band, which included Buddy Rich on drums, the Pied Pipers and Frank Sinatra — the band’s “boy singer.” The Tommy Dorsey band made another appearance on May 7, 1942.

Jazzwax master blogger Marc Myers' mention of the late arranger Bill Finegan yesterday reminded me that I did a show about Tommy Dorsey's post-World War II orchestra a couple of years ago when I ...