Tommy Dorsey

Tommy Dorsey and his Big Band

A black and white picture of Tommy Dorsey standing in front of his big band. There are 3 singers on each side of him.http://www.earlehagen.net/bands.htm

Tommy Dorsey led his own big band for over 20 years! He had many number one hit songs during this time, maybe his most famous was "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You." From this song he also earned his nickname "The Sentimental Gentleman of Swing." Take a listen to the song, the first thing you hear is Tommy Dorsey playing trombone with the rhythm section quietly playing behind him.

Created with CAST's UDL Book Builder
CAST would like to thank Texthelp Inc. for use of the SpeechStream toolbar

Wow! 20 years is a long time to run your own band. But more impressive was Tommy Dorsey's sound on trombone. What did you think about the sound clip of him playing trombone? What does it make you think of?

Listen

What did I think about that? That's really tough! What did the trombone sound like? Did I like that sound? If I were to draw a picture about this sound clip what would it look like? If I didn't like this sound, what was it in particular that I didn't like?

Listen

I'm a huge jazz fan and the mellow tone of Tommy Dorsey's trombone cutting through a big band is like none other. I can just picture a room full of couples dancing to his music, many in military uniforms.

Listen

Select this then click anywhere in the book to start reading text Speak the current selection Stops speech playback Double-click a word in the book and click this icon to translate the word into Spanish