Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Together, and in separate bands, Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey were among the nation's most popular musicians in the big band era. The ...

"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 ...

Time hasn’t been kind to Tommy Dorsey. The Senti-mental Gentleman of Swing, in his day as powerful and popular as Sinatra (whose career he ignited), Elvis or even the Beatles, is now all but unknown ...

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 feuding ...

Buddy Morrow (a.k.a. Muni Zudekoff), big band era trombonist (with a mastery of the upper range), hit-making recording artist, studio musician and most notably, bandleader of The Tommy Dorsey ...

The Greater Hazleton Concert Series Inc. announces that the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra will headline the sixth concert of the 2025-2026 season at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 21, at Hazleton Area High School ...

Note: This story and headline were updated to clarify when Frank Sinatra left the band and who replaced him as singer. My recent column on Red’s Kettle Inn has sparked a number of readers helping with ...

No musician evokes the Big Band era more than Tommy Dorsey. Drawing on new research and scores of interviews with musicians who knew him, Peter Levinson has written a new biography on the seminal ...

GREEN BAY (WLUK) -- The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra will play in Green Bay this fall. The Meyer Theatre announced the big band is playing there Sunday, September 27 at 3:00 p.m. It comes a day after the ...