Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X A lot has been written about Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey, musicians and bandleaders who soared from ...

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 ...

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

GENESEO — Swing and dance enthusiasts will have a chance to travel back in time and hear the sounds and rhythm of the World War II-era big bands when The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra performs Sept. 20 in ...

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 ...

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 ...

The story of Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, two brothers who rise to be jazz/swing bandleaders. Fictionalized biographical film tells the story of Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey. Raised in a Pennsylvania coal-mining ...

Tuesdays are big band time at McAuliffe's Pub on Meachem Road. On most Tuesday nights, that's where you'll find members of the John Bunic Big Band, playing the music of Count Basie, Tommy Dorsey, ...

Buddy Childers, 81, who played lead trumpet in the big bands of jazz luminaries including Stan Kenton and Tommy Dorsey and later led his own ensemble, died May 24 of cancer at his home in Woodland ...