Doc Severinsen, age 89 with the United States Coast Guard Guardians Big Band

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[@artvandelay8090]

Most people are in a wheelchair, bedridden, or DEAD before they reach the age of 89, and there's Doc out there at that age playing things that many people in the primes of their life can't do on the trumpet! He's truly the greatest and the most amazing trumpet player who ever lived!

[@txryder79]

I played the trumpet for about 10 years and let me tell you. At 89 Doc is killing it. His power and control is inspiring.

[@eric_in_florida]

Same here. It's a very physical instrument. How he did it I have no clue. RIP Doc.

[@richtapper5094]

When I was a kid, I used to stay up late -- WAY late -- on school nights hoping to catch Doc playing on the Tonight Show. Now that I'm almost 57, I hunt around on KZbin. Great, great post. Doc at 89, showing us all how to do it.

[@DrLumpy]

Nice Tenor solo, coastie musician! Beautiful job, everyone. Thanks Doc, for inspiring so many of us.

[@jazzman99000]

Wow just learned coast guard has a great band and doc is still alive.

[@valeriesmith5780]

Yep, he's 93.

[@m42037]

Ya man he's still alive, when Johnny died everyone else didn't go with him

[@jacobtolar6608]

😂

[@MrSlim1959]

Glad to see that Doc is still jammen.

[@Spike643]

I loved the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and Doc. With the NBC orchestra!!! Total class!!!

[@larrysmith6797]

Don't forget the Thanksgiving Eve of 1979 kzbin.info/www/bejne/mmaYhGx7jtl7mNk

[@Voyager23B]

spike Landman I really miss those days!

[@jimfish9418]

Wow love the big band sounds

[@kellycoleman715]

He is just amazing. Literally ageless.

[@VoodooDewey69]

A living legend still killing like he was 16 all over again .Still hitting double f,s like no problem .He is proof that wind instruments can extend your lifespan unlike common belief that trumpet players die young .

[@riobravo4454]

Doc is the greatest trumpeter who has ever lived on this planet. I’ve also had the chance to meet him a couple times. He is an awesome down to earth human being.

[@murdude11]

Always amazing. I can't help but wonder what kind of tone-deaf simple life form voted a thumbs down for this.

[@m42037]

Fallon era fans! Lol. Fallon is about as funny as a train wreck

[@DrummerDanVa]

Doc is a freak. Trumpet is a physically demanding instrument. His playing is clean and pretty much flawless.

[@mjleger6035]

My goodness, Doc is still knocking it out of the ball-park at age 89, just incredible! And, of course, the USCG band is superb also! Doc (born July 7, 1927) is still with us at age 94 now, bless him! Thank you, Doc, for your many years of great music on your horn!

[@larryward569]

My junior and senior years in high school Doc came to my small home town of Kilgore and performed with the Kilgore College Concert and Stage bands led my director Wally Reed to a sold out auditorium. It was amazing! Doc loved our town so much that he decided to send his daughter to Kilgore College and he wanted her to be in the band. The thing is, I don’t think she had ever been in band before so Mr. Reed put her on cymbals. 🤣🤣

[@jasonhood2453]

Kilgore, Texas?

[@jad1175]

Doc blow’in a High “F” at 89. WOW 🤩 love him!!

[@rgjerde53]

I played trumpet in high school. I wasn't that good, but playing the instrument lets me know how hard it is to sound as good as Doc -- and at 89, it's absolutely amazing.

[@jordanjordan5189]

Saw Doc a few years back here in Chicago . Man when I turn 89 I pray I could still play like this .

[@alanhernandez7275]

Doc Severinsen Is BEYOND amazing in every way! Nuff Said!

[@deebee9751]

Doc at 89 playing like hes 30 years old is amazing. He is plays up to par with perfection. Love you Doc

[@rubengreenberg2253]

What a fantastic band and Doc is a phenomenon!

[@codylola2010]

Happy veterans day Thursday!!👍👍🇺🇸

[@bySterling]

Wow What a LIFE he’s had and so much 🎶💥💪🏻 light brought to so many still! Human Super Hero 💯

[@BerlinTravelApp]

Hats off to Doc. Clean tone, great range and textbook execution at 89, long after most other trumpet players have hung up their embouchures. And still wearing those loud showbiz suits ...! Wonderful.

[@yanbu000]

Very Solid DOC!

[@DC-xx4kv]

Wow! I love Doc and the orchestra he led for Johnny. As hip and top notch as any band I’ve ever heard.

[@JohnIniguez-xt2pv]

Nice to hear the band playing some difficult charts too. You have some very talented true American hero’s performing here. Attitude of Gratitude 🙏

[@05Hogsrule]

what a treat for the USCG team!!! BIG BAND MOMENT!

[@patrickmcmurray9446]

Outstanding! The Band, the tune, Doc-and that sax player! What a long way from tiny and then remote Arlington Oregon, and the Snell family (I'm distant) Doc has come! 89+ and Doc continues to amaze...

[@johnfury6481]

Way to go, Doc! And that band is pretty tight, too!

[@homecareassistanceNJ]

I’ve been playing the trumpet for about 5 months now and I’m loving it and pretty good at it, not to brag. But I wish I were as good as Doc! He’s been playing for a very long grime and it’s incredible what notes he’s getting up to!

[@melaniechu2120]

I remember waiting with my parents on Thanksgiving Day to hear him open the Macy’s parade😀

[@mjd4174]

Wow, popping out top F's at 89 and having a great time. How cool is that?

[@bobkain350]

That Doc can play like this at 89 is absolutely amazing. I'm hoping to just be able to blow out my candles when get to 89, if I even get there

[@fredericriter4146]

Doc the trumpet king please live forever

[@michaeljudge3401]

For God so loved the world, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16

[@ssnoc]

Wow he’s 89 ? God Bless Doc - what a talented and strong 💪 guy and terrific entertainer for a long, long time - Bravo Doc 👏👏🥃

[@kentclark6420]

I just checked him out to see if he's still around. That's so awesome that he is, and is still going strong! Sounds perfect! Doc was the best, and is. I played high school trumpet in stage band, and did the solos. By nature of being second chair. Fun times!

[@karenmarley9096]

That Sax solo....wow! awesome. Doc still got it!

[@durangomcmurphy1529]

Go Doc !!!

[@seventiesmemories5116]

Simply amazing. and he always was the craziest dresser!

[@EricLehner]

Wow, wow, wow. They are TOGETHER! Well done, all. Doc, you are my "aging with grace" mentor now.

[@Egbert1957]

... der Wahnsinn in der Alterstufe

[@guymelansonmusic]

Who the hell did the thumbs down? That was amazing!

[@ziogregory4799]

Wow Doc is still kicking!

[@Chuckme888]

One of the greatest, with the sweetest intonation ever!

[@billace90]

Nice to see Doc Severinsen again!! That was awesome. He still got it!

[@user-lb7jp6ls3u]

Just amazing! He's the oldest high note hitter I've ever seen.

[@Editor6660cmt]

He's still JUST as amazing as ever!!!!!!!!

[@dgdiyer1191]

Wow! Totally awesome. Saw Doc live twice many years ago. He has tone big and full as a house. Like a pro he makes the incredibly difficult look so easy.

[@jerrypalmer3534]

Crazy he is still doing this !! inspirational !!!!

[@alexblas3986]

He still got chops!

[@razorready]

Just made my night watching this. Doc, you are on it as always. That was incredible.

[@porfiriozeledon9535]

DOC es una inspiración para todos los trompetistas... Dios bendiga a Doc !

[@tomdimartino7361]

Holy fuck I hope I could still pee at 89

[@yodashaman7991]

Great front row seat camera work!

[@stevenpetrie6985]

Awesome 👌

[@gardinselmer1005]

I hope I can still brush my teeth at that age, never mind playing at that level.

[@robertciunci3281]

Wow!!! That Cat is still the coolest! and at his age he is Magnificent!!

[@kentclark6420]

He's had a long time to improve!

[@lucacognigni5735]

Grandissimo DOC

[@marcoschrispim3083]

bravo.

[@erzug]

WOW!!!!!!!!!

[@davedampier2360]

Swing it! That's an order!

[@PJCafaro]

Way cool!

[@RonaldRice]

Love Doc Then & Now. Great Doc-umentary PBS show on him last night! Doc Severinsen’s Triumphant Post-Carson Career Is the Inspiration We Need Now The subject of a new PBS documentary, the former Tonight Show bandleader is still going at age 93. POSTED BY AARON BARNHART WEDNESDAY 3/31/2021 Never Too Late: The Doc Severinsen Story premiered Friday, April 2nd. PBS is generating a lot of to-do for Hemingway, the next big thing from Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, arriving next week. Hemingway, the publicity tells us, “reveals the brilliant, ambitious, charismatic, and complicated man behind the myth, and the art he created.” But what if I told you there was another film about a brilliant, ambitious, charismatic, and complicated artist also premiering on PBS, and you could watch it in one-fourth the time it will take to learn about Papa Hemingway’s miserable life? How much would you pay?? Relax, you don’t have to pay a thing - it’s PBS! (But you really should support your local station for five bucks a month, which gets you the excellent PBS Passport streamer.) The film I’m referring to is Never Too Late: The Doc Severinsen Story, premiering April 2 on American Masters. And it’s merely the most amazing whatever-happened-to that you’ve seen in a long time. It’s a retrospective on the career of the most famous bandleader of his generation (with the possible exception of Lawrence Welk) as told by the man himself and the people who know him best. And it catches you up on the ridiculously active life of Doc Severinsen, who until the pandemic was criss-crossing the country, blowing his trumpet, leading the band, soaking up adulation, getting on a plane, and doing it all over again in another town, 40-plus weeks a year… in his nineties. For those of you unlucky enough to be born after the Tonight Show’s heyday, Doc Severinsen played trumpet in the band from 1951 (yes, the Steve Allen version) until 1957, went away, laid down some great LPs like this one that I’m grooving to as I write this review, then rejoined the band when Johnny Carson took over in 1962. That band is still on full display every night on Antenna TV, along with Doc’s radiant wardrobe and his irreverent wit. It’s one thing to headline a record, quite another to lead a first-rate group of musicians, keeping them in line, and being able to ad-lib when the most famous TV host in America throws to you. But Doc did it, re-inventing himself, becoming the flamboyant sidekick who could get away with saying, and wearing, just about anything around Johnny. This took nerve, as Mr. Carson made careers and broke quite a few along the way too. But Doc inserted himself into the spotlight with seemingly effortless ease, becoming to the Tonight Show what Ringo was to the Beatles - a first-rate performer whose musical skills got overshadowed by his personality.

[@earltpt]

👍great

[@kellycoleman715]

There is NO WAY he’s 89! That just doesn’t compute in my head.

[@duanemelvin292]

unreal stamina!! go Doc

[@1PITIFULDUDE]

Oh!!!Yeah!!!!🎶🎺

[@trainliker100]

I like to compare my own trumpet playing with Doc Severinsen's. My trumpets are also made of metal. And that's pretty much where the comparison ends.

[@TheSchlerm]

Wow! These cats swing!! Sax player sounds a lot like Jimmy Giuffre.

[@trumpetrumept]

93歳は凄過ぎる。。。

[@waynedaniels5921]

Only the greats are emulated. Brian MacDonald with the Airmen of Note does a great impression of Doc on this very same arrangement.

[@KutWrite]

Great! I wonder how Coast Guard band members get so many ribbons.

[@1225KPH]

They play their asses off, you BIG DUMMY.

[@KutWrite]

@@1225KPH You don't get ribbons for that. Weak insults mean nothing.

[@1225KPH]

@@KutWrite Tell me what earns ribbons.

[@maximusaviationchannel]

The fuk did the Coast Guard get a band like this?

[@apollo3340]

Could you please put the date of this performance in the description, since it was apparently 4 years ago and not this year?

[@larrysmith6797]

Doc is turned 93 on July 7, 2020. He was 89 during this performance. 2020 - 4 = 2016 unless you believe the Coast Guard can't count or are liars.

[@apollo3340]

@@larrysmith6797 So you just happened to already know that he was 93 before you watched this video or read any of the comments? I doubt it.

[@vat_]

@@apollo3340 why so doubtful

[@berndwickenhaeuser4886]

Soviel zum Thema Ich bin zu alt um Trompete zu spielen 😊