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 ...

Former Tonight Show music director Doc Severinsen playing the trumpet as he re-records the theme music for "CBS News Sunday Morning." (File/Associated Press / The Spokesman-Review) Doc Severinsen, the ...

Doc Severinsen, the former bandleader on "The Tonight Show," spends 46 weeks a year doing symphony pops and big-band concerts. (Photo courtesy of the Spokane Symphony / The Spokesman-Review) Spokane ...

Call: The symphony box office (509-624-1200) or TicketsWest outlets (509-325-SEAT, 800-325-SEAT, www.ticketswest.com) Doc Severinsen had the privilege of playing with the great Duke Ellington one ...

Heeeeere’s Johnny!” That lead-in, followed by a big band trumpet blast, was the landmark of late night television for three decades. The ‘Johnny’ was Johnny Carson, the announcer was Ed McMahon and ...

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 ...

On top of being a musical icon and legendary trumpeter, Doc Severinsen makes sure he hits the gym everyday. Follow his daily workout routine, including the preworkout meal he swears by — ‘cowboy ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...