From a coal mining family in Pennsylvania, Tommy and his brother Jimmy Dorsey
grew up to become two of the most popular US jazz stars of the 1930s,
entertaining audiences with up-tempo swing and show tunes and shaping the dance
sounds of the era. With Tommy on trombone and Jimmy on saxophone, the siblings
worked together in bands as teenagers before uniting as The Dorsey Brothers and
scoring hits Coquette, I Believe In Miracles and Let's Do It (Let's Fall In
Love). Despite numerous rows and disagreements, they successfully ran the
orchestra (which included a young Glenn Miller in...