The composer Tommy Dorsey died at the age of 51. Here is all you want to know, and more!
Biography - A Short Wiki
Big bandleader during the Swing Era who earned the moniker “The Sentimental Gentleman of Swing.” His brother was Jimmy Dorsey.
He married Mildred Kraft in 1922, then movie actress Pat Dane on April 8, 1943, and finally Copacabana nightclub dancer Jane Carl New on March 27, 1948.
Quotes
"“We used to play the Savoy Ballroom, and we always had a boogie tune in the set. Bands like Tommy Dorsey used to do a little boogie woogie. The big bands.” (Jay McShann)
"“I want people to feel what it was like in the ’40s. That’s when popular music in the United States was so beautiful. Frank Sinatra, the Pied Pipers, Duke Ellington, Fletcher Henderson, Tommy Dorsey, Billie Holiday. That’s when popular music had deeper values, to me. This was music that was selling millions of records.” (Charlie Haden)
"“I was growing up at a time when music was growing and changing so fast. I had learned all the big band sounds of the 1940s, Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey. But then along came Chuck Berry, Les Paul, Fats Domino and I figured out how to make their music as well.” (Jose Feliciano)