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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 ...
The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra is swinging into Altoona. The big band, which has evolved over the years, had 17 No. 1 hits in the 1930s and ’40s and featured such singers as Frank Sinatra and Jack ...
Trombonist Bill Tole has not merely been a member of the famous Tommy Dorsey Orchestra. He’s actually been Tommy Dorsey. Tole plays the part of the famous trombonist-bandleader in Martin ...
The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra will perform at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 7, at the University of Dubuque in the John and Alice ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
In reality, the singer was Frank Sinatra, who had become a star during the nearly three years he spent with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra. In 1942, he borrowed money from Dorsey to establish himself ...
Producer Didier Morissonneau is pleased to announce that the legendary Big Band of swing, The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, will perform a Tribute to Frank Sinatra at Powell Hall on Saturday ...
The series will begin with a performance by the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra. Other acts feature violinist Arabella Steinbacher, baritone singer Jubilant Sykes, and jazz vocalist Marlena Shaw.