Tommy Dorsey was born November 19, 1905, in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania. He was taught trumpet by his father who also gave lessons to his brother Jimmy. While Tommy would switch his main focus to trombone by the mid-1920s, he still occasionally recorded on trumpet. The Dorsey Brothers led parallel lives until they were nearly 30. They […]
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