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 ...

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 ...

A new “American Masters” documentary about Doc Severinsen serves as a reminder that the kind of TV many of us knew for most of our lives is ancient history in the eyes of many others. Not for the ...

He’s played with the likes of Kansas City-great Count Basie, though he’s best known for leading The Tonight Show band when Johnny Carson was hosting. Doc Severinsen is back in Kansas City for a ...

Here, in a nutshell version, are the facts that follow a long road to “El Ritmo de la Vida,” this weekend’s Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall presentation. Fact No. 1: Had his small music shop in ...

Each night he appeared on The ‘Tonight Show with Johnny Carson’, Doc Severinsen would walk out dawning the most eccentric, loud and gawkish clothing items — all of which he sourced himself. - Oh, this ...

Q: Where does Doc Severinsen get his TV clothes? It is interesting to see what he comes up with each night on The Tonight Show. A: The gaudy garb is Severinsen’s own. According to a rep for the music ...

COLMES: People make a lot of Johnny having being a recluse and, you know, someone who you never really got to know, even if you worked with him and were with him every single day. Is that an accurate ...

Doc Severinsen will celebrate his 90th birthday during the Minnesota Orchestra’s newly announced Sommerfest 2017, which will also be artistic director Andrew Litton’s final season as the festival’s ...

Doc Severinsen is finished with The Tonight Show in more ways than one. He says he hasn’t watched it since he, Johnny Carson and Ed McMahon left in May. “As far as I’m concerned, The Tonight Show ...

After more than 30 years as the colorful bandleader of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, master trumpeter Doc Severinsen continues to defy nature well into his 90s with a grueling schedule of ...

Carl Hilding "Doc" Severinsen is an American jazz musician and trumpeter known primarily for his work as an orchestra leader on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.