Doc Severinsen
Doc Severinsen
Carl Hilding "Doc" Severinsenis an American pop and jazz trumpeter. He is best known for leading the NBC Orchestra on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTrumpet Player
Date of Birth7 July 1927
CityArlington, OR
CountryUnited States of America
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Dorsey's sound kind of stayed with me. Plus, I have a flamboyant personality - and that gets in there, too. Your sound is a reflection of your personality and your environment. What you hear first in your life stays with you. The type of sounds you hear will have an influence on you later.
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As I look back now, some of those dates, the players - I think I didn't realize how fully significant that all was. My God, some of the playing you heard. You had to take it in, and it had to do something to you.
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Now I'm having the time of my life being on the road with one of the world's all-time great big bands, and performing with symphonies. I wouldn't trade it for anything.
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I don't suppose I'll ever get over it. I mean, the boss is gone. But he wouldn't want anybody hanging any out, any black crepe for him.
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He always had his eye out for something new. He never pushed it away, but he embraced it. It became a part of how you program pops orchestras.