Saturday, November 19, 2022

November 19 - Tommy Dorsey (The Musical Birthday Series, 4th Annual Cycle)

Previous posts for November 19th are found here: Tommy Dorsey (2019), Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov (2020), and Pierre Leclair (2021)

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Tommy Dorsey (19 November 1905 – 26 November 1956) was an important jazz trombonist and big band leader.

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Commercial Considerations


“The Sentimental Gentleman of Swing”

    Was Dorsey’s sobriquet.

As assonance it has a pleasant ring,

   And marketers would say

As long as his recordings sell (ka-ching!)

   We’ll brand him in this way.

 

 

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