On the bandstand, unmistakable with trombone and trademark glasses, is “The Sentimental Gentleman,” Tommy Dorsey, leading his orchestra in what amounts to a medley of Dorsey’s greatest hits: ...

Prior to the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra, Tommy worked with such units as Jean Goldkette, Paul Whiteman and recorded with Bix Beiderbecke, (Bix & His Rhythm Jugglers); Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang and of ...

Tommy Dorsey’s orchestra, which had gone into a mild decline in the late ... whose alcoholism hadn’t as yet subverted his playing; drummer Buddy Rich, late of the Artie Shaw orchestra; the consummate ...

Peter Levinson tells Linda Wertheimer about his biography. You're listening to Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra. The long, lyrical phrases and the sweet high notes that he could coax from a slide ...

Smooth as butter, tight enough to turn on a dime, the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra ... although for 20 years he had his own band. On April 28, he will have conducted the Dorsey Orchestra longer than ...

Tickets cost $35 to $45 and can be purchased HERE Jeff Bush began his association with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra in January ...

Tommy packed his trombone and walked off the stage. The Dorsey Brothers Orchestra was no more. Ethel Nagy Gabriel, who produced recordings at RCA Victor, saw Tommy Dorsey’s temper during a ...

One of those stories involved big band leader Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra appearing at the George F. Pavilion. This was not really anything unusual, as the Binghamton/Johnson City area was on ...

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TOMMY DORSEY was the inspiration for the headstrong ... and the draft took most of Dorsey’s other stars, his orchestra lost some of its spark. The great appeal of the early-’40s band was ...