If you’re going to swing, do so with the group that built its reputation as one of the premiere big bands of the 20th Century. Add in a guest vocalist capturing the voices of some of the female ...

"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 ...

(CBS11) - Tommy Dorsey was one of the most prolific big band musicians and orchestra leaders from the 1930s through the mid 1950s. Born on November 19, 1905 in Shenandoah, PA he was the second of four ...

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 ...

Night Train marks birthdays of adventurous trombonist Roswell Rudd, composer and arranger Vince Mendoza (with John Scofield ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Jack Leonard sang with the band for about four years, recording such fine ...

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 – ...

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 “Tommy ...

The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra,led by Buddy Morrow, performs Friday at 8 p.m. as part of the summer cabaret fare at the University of Connecticut’s Jorgensen Auditorium on the Storrs campus. Under ...

Renowned big band leader Tommy Dorsey is remembered as the sentimental gentleman of swing. In the years since his death in 1956, new generations of musicians have carried Dorsey's swingin' big band ...