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To commemorate the centennial of the artist's birth, the definitive biography of the legendary jazz giant Tommy Dorsey
Da Capo Press
September 2005
354 pages
ISBN: 0306811111
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Biography
Swing has never gone out of style. It was the music the
Greatest Generation danced to-and went to war to. And no
musician evokes the Big Band era more strikingly than Tommy
Dorsey, whose soaring trombone play and hit tunes
influenced popular music for a generation. Tommy Dorsey
(1905-1956) led a rich and complex life. Beginning with his
childhood in the coal mining towns of Pennsylvania, we
follow the young trombonist's journey to fame and fortune
during the jazz age. Tommy, with his brother Jimmy, created
one of the most popular bands of the era and played with
such giants as Bing Crosby and Glenn Miller. They also
launched the career of a skinny young singer named Frank
Sinatra. But Tommy's volcanic personality eventually split
the band and Tommy went off on his own. Drawing on exhaustive new research and scores of interviews
with the musicians who knew him best, Levinson delves into
Dorsey's famously eccentric lifestyle and his oversize
appetite for drink, women, and perfection. The first
biography on Dorsey in more than thirty years, Tommy Dorsey
is a dazzling portrait of the Big Band era's brightest star-
his tumultuous life, his turbulent times, and the
unforgettable music that made him a legend.
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