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Jimmy Dorsey

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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...