Word: dorsey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born. To Thomas Francis ("Tommy") Dorsey, 44, belligerent, trombone-tootling bandleader (the "Sentimental Gentleman of Swing"), and third wife Jane New Dorsey, 26: their first child (his third), a daughter; in Manhattan. Name: Catherine Susan. Weight...
Divorced. Jimmy Dorsey, 45, sweet-and-swing saxophone-playing bandleader; by Jane Porter Dorsey, 39, (her complaint: "If anyone brought records by some other musician into the house, [Jimmy] would smash them"); after 21 years of marriage; in Los Angeles...
...veteran jazz bandleaders unburdened themselves on bebop. Sniffed schmalzy Guy Lombardo: "It's laid a big egg. As a matter of fact, it's nothing. I don't even know what they're doing, do you?" Snapped Swingman Tommy Dorsey: "I don't like bebop, and I admit it. I don't know anything about it, and I don't like the look of the people that...
...green baize turntables whirled far into the night. Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra hopped over from the Café Rouge at 2 a.m. Phlegm-voiced Vaughn Monroe, who had been among the last to record last December, tried desperately to get back from Ohio to be the first, but arrived too late. By noon the next day, Como's Missouri Waltz was on sale on Broadway...
Died. Davis ("Dave") Tough, 41, famed, pint-sized (5 ft.) jazz drummer (a "Chicago style" pioneer, he had played with Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey and Artie Shaw); of a fractured skull, suffered when he fell on the street; in Newark...