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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, the creatively attired high-note trumpet player who led the band on “The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson” for 30 years, tried to retire to Mexico a few years ago. That didn’t ...

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 ...

The Minnesota Orchestra completed its artistic leadership team Monday by making an in-house hire of a popular employee. Two years after Doc Severinsen retired as principal pops conductor, Sarah Hicks ...

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.