- In 1961 he formed a band to play at the Rank Organisation's Astoria Dance Salon in London. When he first arrived, he was surprised to find notices advertising 'Jack Dorsey and his Orchestra'. 'I am the new bandleader here, who's this Jack Dorsey?' he enquired. 'You are!' he was told. It would appear that the management did not feel that the name Handel Huckridge was very commercial, therefore they found a name that was synonymous with dance band music. Thus Handel Huckridge became Jack Dorsey, which he remains to this day.
- Early in 1963, the Rank Organisation Management gave Jack the opportunity to create a new 17-piece orchestra, possibly the largest band to hold a ballroom residency.
- After leaving school he joined the Band of the Grenadier Guards, where he played cornet and trumpet.
- To the general public Jack is best known as a musical director.
- When 'Music While You Work' was revived for a week in 1982 as part of the BBC's 60th Anniversary celebrations, Jack Dorsey and his Orchestra were invited to contribute.
- Subsequently he began a 25-year association with the well-known recording orchestra 'The 101 Strings', becoming their conductor/producer/arranger as well as composing many of the pieces which they recorded.
- He became A and R Manager for EMI and Pye, but fronted his own band for a number of long-playing records.
- In January 1962, Jack's energetic-sounding band, which he led on trumpet, made the first of its 37 appearances in 'Music While You Work'.
- He also studied composition and orchestration with the distinguished Dr Gordon Jacob and harmony and counterpoint with Dr W.S. Lloyd-Webber.
- He also played in theatre orchestras for shows such as 'Kismet' and 'The King and I'. He even had a spell playing trumpet for Bert Ambrose, and a stint with the Crazy Gang as musician and deputy conductor.
- Jack also fronted his own 'Rose of Romance Orchestra' for a series of long-playing albums of romantic music.
- Educated at Hammersmith Central School and the Song School, Westminster Abbey, where he was a chorister, he studied the trumpet with Ernest Hall at the Royal College of Music and George Eskdale at the Royal Academy of Music.
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