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More Film Festivals will be showing the documentary NEVER TOO LATE: THE DOC SEVERINSEN STORY. All screenings are online and include fun video panels and Q&As which you can watch along with the film. Ticket links are noted below. SOUND UNSEEN FILM + MUSIC FESTIVAL (Minnesota and Texas Only) November 14 – 16, 2020 Sound […]

Two more Film Festivals will be showing the documentary NEVER TOO LATE: THE DOC SEVERINSEN STORY this month. All screenings are online and include fun video panels and Q&As which you can watch along with the film. Keep watching for more announcements! MILWAUKEE FILM FESTIVAL Available in Wisconsin October 15 – 29 Milwaukee Film Festival […]

The documentary NEVER TOO LATE: THE DOC SEVERINSEN STORY is beginning to show at film festivals this month and details and locations are located below. All screenings are online for now and include fun video panels and Q&As which you can watch along with the film. More announcements are coming soon! Guanajuato International Film Festival […]

(July 17, 2019; Los Angeles, CA) Grammy® Award-winning musician, Doc Severinsen has been celebrated as America’s favorite trumpet player for more than half a century! Welcomed into living rooms for nearly three decades as the leader of The Tonight Show Orchestra, (with host Johnny Carson hailing him as ‘the greatest trumpet player in the world,’) […]

by Wendi Winters on November 18, 2016 Five BRASS Stars! Doc Severinsen may have not appeared on your screen since Johnny Carson turned the keys to The Tonight Show over to Jay Leno in 1992, but he hasn’t slowed down. Hired as a musician for NBC’s radio network in 1949 and, later, a familiar face […]

Johnny Carson called him “the greatest trumpeter in the world” in 1972. Robert Moody, music director of the Winston-Salem Symphony, also said that he is one of the finest trumpet players in the world. But Carl H. “Doc” Severinsen, 89 and still playing about 50 dates a year, is hedging his bets. “The trumpet is […]

By Brett Turner Contributing Writer SPRINGFIELD — With Grammy Awards and a place on one of the greatest shows in television history in his past, you’d think legendary trumpet player and “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson” big band leader Doc Severinsen would slow down in his golden years. Not when he can still play […]

Civic Music debuts new season with no holds barred. Concert Review, September 22, 2013 By Bob Saar for The Hawk Eye Burlington Civic Music kicked off its new season Sunday afternoon at Memorial Auditorium with a bang that compelled the huge audience to whimper. The Doc Severinsen Big Band gave the old building new life, […]

This October, Doc will be hitting the road with the San Miguel 5 for a tour of California with a stop in Las Vegas. Featured will be Doc Severinsen on trumpet, Gil Gutierrez on Guitar, Charlie Bisharat on Violin, Kevin Thomas on Bass and Jimmy Branly playing percussion. You won’t want to miss this fantastic […]

Hi Everybody, Doc Severinsen here, asking for your attention about a very important matter! Clark Terry, the great jazz icon, has had and is having a very serious challenge from a disastrous diabetic condition. Clark has been giving music lessons from the hospital in Arkansas-and when I spoke with him a few days ago-he sounded […]