Tommy Dorsey.(Brief Article)(Book Review) From: The Bookwatch | Date: March 1, 2006 | COPYRIGHT 2006 Midwest Book Review. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Tommy Dorsey

Peter J. Levinson

Da Capo Press

11 Cambridge Ctr, Cambridge, MA 02142

0306811111 $27.50 dacapopress.com

Celebrating the centennial of Dorsey's birth is Tommy Dorsey: Livin' In A Great Big Way, a biography reaching through the hype to provide a definitive account of the jazz ic...

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