Joining the orchestra is Helen Welch, a British-born vocalist renowned for her lush voice and magnetic stage presence. Welch has performed with the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra and the Packard Big Band, ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bill Finegan, an architect of the big band sounds of Tommy Dorsey and Glenn Miller who later traded in commercial success to co-create the Sauter-Finegan Orchestra, which produced music that still ...

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 ...

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 ...

To kick off the summer properly, Coral Gables Congregational Church (CGCC) is pushing nightly bingo aside for bigger and better things. Beginning June 1, CGCC, through its Community Arts Program (CAP) ...