# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jimmy-dorsey
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:36:06.661Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jimmy-dorsey"
name: "Jimmy Dorsey"
slug: "jimmy-dorsey"
description: "James Francis Dorsey was an American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, composer and big band leader. He recorded and composed the jazz and pop standards \"I'm Glad There Is You \" and \"It's the Dreamer in Me\". His other major recordings were \"Tailspin\", \"John Silver\", \"So Many Times\", \"Amapola\", \"Brazil \", \"Pennies from Heaven\" with Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong, and Frances Langford, \"Grand Central Getaway\", and \"So Rare\". He played clarinet on the seminal jazz standards \"Singin' the Blues\" in 1927 and the original 1930 recording of \"Georgia on My Mind\", which were inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame."
tagline: "American clarinetist, alto saxophonist, bandleader, and composer, brother of Tommy Dorsey (1904–1957)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jimmy_dorsey.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1904-02-29"
deathDate: "1957-06-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.04886360697203
  historical:           22.28039333333334
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump