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Died. James Francis (Jimmy) Dorsey, 53, saxophonist-bandleader, brother of Trombonist Tommy (who accidentally choked to death in his sleep last November); of lung cancer; in Manhattan. The Dorsey brothers played in the '20s, developed a soothing, sentimental style of swing that softened the Dixie beat, met swift success (between them they sold more than 110 million records); formed (1934) their own band but broke up in a tiff over tempo. Jimmy rejoined Tommy in 1953, was hard-hit by his brother's death...
...legal brawl shaped up over the estimated $500,000 estate of the late Bandleader Tommy ("The Sentimental Gentleman of Swing") Dorsey (TIME, Dec. 10). At the time of his death at 51, Trombonist Dorsey left his personal affairs in a double muddle: he was about to be divorced from his third wife, ex-Showgirl Jane New Dorsey, and-astonishingly for a man of his means-he left no will. Contestants in the upcoming fight: the third Mrs. Dorsey, who wishes to administer the estate v. two grown children of temperamental Tommy's first marriage, who ask that the estate...
Died. Thomas Francis (Tommy) Dorsey Jr., 51, hot-tempered hot trombonist and bespectacled "Sentimental Gentleman of Swing"; of suffocation in his sleep during an attack of nausea; in Greenwich, Conn. Tommy and his elder brother, Saxophonist Jimmy, called their first band (1920) "Dorsey's Novelty Six," later razzed up the title to "Dorsey's Wild Canaries." The Dorseys riffed through the jazz-dazzled '20s under Bandleaders Paul Whiteman, Red Nichols and Rudy Vallee, by 1934 had formed the Dorsey Brothers' Orchestra, within a year hit the bigtime of the big-band era. Then Tommy stomped...
...Conservatives who disputed for power with equally conservative Liberals- molded his beliefs to the right. The Chilean cavalry gave him a passion for humorless order; Chileans say that once, for reasons of pure esthetic tidiness, he made a tall clarinetist in a military band trade instruments with a short trombonist...
Last week Benny seemed happier than he had been in a long time. Standout sidemen in Benny's new band: Trombonist Urbie Green and Drummer Mousie Alexander, a graduate, surprisingly, of the contrapuntal Sauter-Finegan band. The arrangements were mostly the old Fletcher Henderson "killer-dillers" that Benny made famous in the '30s, and the swinging improvisations did not seem so improvised any more. But this exhibit from the past-venerable enough to have a movie made about his life-was still able to show a new generation that there is something besides Dixieland, "progressive," and the noise...