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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Doc Severinsen was born to perform. You can tell right away. “Welcome to our show!” he shouted Friday morning to the big crowd at the Buffalo Philharmonic ...

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 ...

Twenty years have passed since Doc Severinsen ended his 30-year stint on "The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson." Judging by the average age in the intimate Cabaret Jazz at The Smith Center for the ...

Sometimes when he goes back to his hotel room late at night after one of his big-band concerts, Doc Severinsen will scan the TV dial and run into something that looks vaguely familiar. Then, after ...

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 ...