Never Too Late (Just Bright Productions, 2020) is a meticulously produced and emotion-grabbing documentary portrait of the musical career and life of trumpeter Doc Severinsen. While Duke Ellington may ...

The film features original interviews with friends, colleagues and famous fans inspired by the music icon, including Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon bandleader Questlove, master trumpeters Chris ...

Music legend Doc Severinsen was in St. Paul last week serving soup to volunteers building the nation's largest Ice Palace. Early years: Severinsen was born July 7, 1927, in Arlington, Ore. At an early ...

I was fortunate enough to interview Doc Severinsen last week by telephone, reaching him before a concert on the road in Columbus, Ohio. Below are two links. The first is a short 5 1/2 minute produced ...

Now a Rapid City audience will get to hear whole songs — and a band full of accomplished musicians — when Doc Severinsen’s Big Band performs at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 4, at the Rushmore Plaza Civic ...

For 30 years, most people only heard a few bars of Doc Severinsen's music as he led the Tonight Show orchestra into and out of commercial breaks. After a while, it became a joke around the Burbank, ...

Best known as the musical director of the Tonight Show band, Doc Severinsen has been playing the trumpet for some 77 years (the 84-year-old started when he was just seven). That s a long time for any ...

He has a cool mustache, cool threads and he plays cool music. And I probably shouldn't have been watching him on television when I was still in elementary school. Doc Severinsen led "The Tonight Show" ...

This weekend, when the musicians of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra kick off their pops season, Doc Severinsen will be with them. Severinsen, the flashy maestro who led Johnny Carson's "Tonight ...

Carl "Doc" Severinsen's favorite memory from his "Tonight Show" days is the one he shared with millions of viewers every night: the moment Johnny Carson first stepped in front of the camera. "I loved ...