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Jimmy Dorsey
Jimmy Dorsey – born February 29, 1904 in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania – was one of
the most influential alto saxophonists and clarinetists of the big band and
swing era. He was also a bandleader and respected composer, and trumpeter.
Dorsey wrote or co-wrote jazz and pop standards including “It’s the Dreamer in
Me” and “I’m Glad There Is You (In this World of Ordinary People)”, “So Many
Times”, “John Silver”, “Tailspin”, and “Jumpin’ Jehosaphat”. With his younger
brother Tommy on trombone, Jimmy Dorsey co-founded Dorsey’s Novelty Six in the
early 1920s, the beginning of a career that...
