TOMMY DORSEY was the inspiration for the headstrong bandleader in “The Godfather” who was made an “offer he couldn’t refuse.” In Mario Puzo’s book, a mob-connected singer wants out of ...

The story of Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, two brothers who rise to be jazz/swing bandleaders.

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 &#… ...

Dorsey took “blame” for the scandals that emerged in the “Twitter Files,” including censoring The Post’s reporting. “This is my fault alone, as I completely gave up pushing for them ...

So Tommy Dorsey based his own band on the members of other bands who were looking for both artistic freedom and bigger pay checks. Some sources claim that Tommy Dorsey would “raid” other bands ...

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

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… ...

In a career spanning more than seven decades, Mr. Morrow led the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra and played for the “Tonight Show” band.

A lot has been written about Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey, musicians and bandleaders who soared from Shenandoah into musical immortality during the big band era. Together, and separately, the often feudi… ...

When Frank Sinatra joined Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra in January of 1940, he was an almost total unknown. True, he had spent a little over a year singing with the Harry James band, and his ...

At 16, he joined the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra, but when Tommy Dorsey formed his own band, Byrne stayed with Jimmy Dorsey’s orchestra. In 1939, Byrne started an orchestra that became known for ...