Tommy Dorsey's efforts paid off. He was intense, combative and relentless in pursuit of the excellence he demanded of his orchestras. As George T. Simon observed in his definitive opus The Big Bands, ...

GRAND RAPIDS – Frank Sinatra and Tommy Dorsey were bigger than big. The singer and the trombonist made bobby soxers scream and cash registers sing on the eve of World War II. Dorsey, the sentimental – ...

Smooth as butter, tight enough to turn on a dime, the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra conducted by Buddy Morrow took an audience of more than 600 people on a sentimental stroll down Memory Lane Friday night at ...

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 ...

One of the biggest names of the big band era, Tommy Dorsey was a band leader who rose to prominence in the 1930s. Known as the Sentimental Gentleman of Swing, Dorsey was famed for his smooth, somber ...

"I tell people I have the greatest job in the world. I just go 'one, two, one-two-three-four,' and get out of the way," Myers said from his home near Orlando, Fla. Myers is the latest in a line of ...

Tommy Dorsey’s orchestra, which had gone into a mild decline in the late ’30s, was by 1940 making a strong comeback owing largely to the addition of several key ingredients — star trumpeter Bunny ...

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 with Glenn Miller and other stars. They even ...

"The Sentimental Gentleman of Swing," the embodiment of a leader of the big-band era, was actually a temperamental martinet of the age, says music biographer Levinson (September in the Rain, 2001… By ...