was a noted Pittsburgh trumpet player and bandleader who recorded the Pittsburgh Pirates’ 1960 theme song, “Beat ‘Em Bucs,” and toured with Tommy Dorsey. “Jazz was always coming from my ...

First album would be doctor ... and His Texas Playboys were right up there in popularity with the likes of Tommy Dorsey or Benny Goodman. Well, I'm standing here with them. Plunkett of the ...

After his stint with Tommy Dorsey, Bobby was asked to play with Woody Herman's band ... Heavy Company' was awarded the Jazz Album Of The Year in 1983 by the Recording Industry Association of New ...

At press time, the album (due out in September ... “Stuff like Jimmie Lunceford and Tommy Dorsey, you know, with all the horns. And, of course, we were also drawing on cats like T-Bone and ...

Through the years, the two played together for other bands and also produced an album in 1998 with other ... the upcoming BCPAC performance of The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra at the Bromeley Family ...

Tommy Dorsey was also noted as an eagle-eyed talent ... But while bebop prospered in the age of the album, its cutting-edge experimentalism wasn’t for everybody. It blossomed in New York ...

Working with the likes of Elvis Presley, Chet Atkins, Pérez Prado, and Roger Whitaker, Gabriel produced six Grammy-winning albums (including Tommy Dorsey / Frank Sinatra The Complete Sessions ...

Now in its 20th year, the Scranton Jazz Festival will celebrate a milestone in its history with three days of live jazz, blues and world beat music, August 1 to 3 in Downtown Scranton.

A decade earlier, an early mentor for Sinatra, Big Band leader Tommy Dorsey, also had played the theater. Frank Sinatra performs with bandleader Tommy Dorsey, left, in a circa 1940 photo.

Aug. 27: Bay City Swing re-creates the music of Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller, Count Basie and other big bands. Aug. 29 (Friday): A return of the blues, R&B and jazz of Big Mouth and the Power Tool ...

Bradford Creative and Performing Arts Center (BCPAC) announced the next concert in its spring series, The Tommy Dorsey ...