Doc Severinsen - Watch What Happens 1080p

Doc Severinsen and the Tonight Show Band on Johnny Carson's 17th anniversary special from 10/1/79

[@TrumpetManinNC]

At 14, I wouldn't go to bed until I watched the Tonight Show credits, just in case Doc was going to play. Thank you, Doc.

[@tjnaples]

Rich Tapper Same, also why I play the trumpet!

[@jswilley3673]

Ok with you on that brother. 1st chair jazz performance band- ps. Hated marching band....just saying lol

[@richtapper5094]

@@jswilley3673 I actually ruined my chops in marching band in Massachusetts -- otherwise I was on track for the BSO(!). I'm 56 now, and now working to get my chops back. Tough as hell to find relaxation through the scar tissue...At least now my mortgage doesn't depend on it...

[@westinjerome9910]

InstaBlaster.

[@theimp5901]

Yeah the Doc watch was a vital part of The Tonight Show .

[@theimp5901]

My old Trumpet teacher Mr. Mel Broiles who played Principal Trumpet at the Met Opera for 45 years said to me 50+ years ago that Doc was the best trumpet player he ever heard. RIP my friend Mel.

[@estellepatella2520]

Doc, Johnny and Ed. The world just isn't the same without them.

[@bobkain350]

We at least still have Doc.

[@FollowerSt]

You got it I think it's funny how they play in do johnny carson

[@ssnoc]

What a kick ass band - they were all top shelf players. Doc was amazing

[@richarddawes9100]

The greatest trumpet player ever his tone was on another level Love Doc!!!!

[@brucekuehn4031]

This was a band! This was a talk show! Really miss them - great nights back then

[@marvingoodman7381]

WOW!! I've seen various polls that have named Doc as the greatest overall trumpet players in the world. This includes tone, technique, etc... Watching him play pieces like this, McArthur Park and others show how great a performer he is. Thank goodness we have these videos to enjoy Doc for many years to come....

[@sblack48]

Not only this style but he also was a renowned symphonic soloist as well. He was often performing with symphony orchestras. It’s highly unusual for players to excel at both styles

[@drerichall]

No one else comes close to Doc! His tone is incredible! It’s like his trumpet is singing.

[@louispontecorvo6209]

Still the Best!!!!!

[@kenhagen5890]

There's no reason or need to compare Doc to anyone. He's in a category all by himself. There are so many great players, past and present, to listen to. Herseth supposedly called MF the greatest brass player of his century. It's all good. What I've always liked about Doc is that clean, pure sound, useful in all styles of music. He has a sound trumpet teachers love. Me too.

[@pietrusabalardus1881]

Ken Hagen I believe what he said was that Maynard had done more for the understanding of how the trumpet works, namely breath, breath, and more breath, than anyone in the history of trumpet playing, or words to that effect. He also left a rehearsal one afternoon with someone else and went across the street where there used to be a vaudeville theatre to hear and praise Raphael Mendez.

[@louispontecorvo6209]

The greatest for sure!!!. TV.... lights camera action!!! Doc and the tonight show orchestra always on!!!!!! Nothing compares today!!!

[@williamharris1131]

How awesome! Back when the late night entertainment was FUNNY and the music was AWESOME too!

[@christopherescott6787]

THIS is what class was, is and will never again be.....

[@paulyakaitis3352]

Christopher Escott along with frank sinatra, dean martin, Sammy Davis...

[@pietrusabalardus1881]

Christopher Escott precisely

[@singergal57]

He really was the greatest trumpet player in the world. I am a musician and this is just incredible. The whole ensemble is outstanding but Severinsen just rocks it out of the park. I've played this five times already. Used to watch Johnny with my dad. Thank you so much for posting. Just terrific. He's still alive, too I think. Thank you Doc you are one of a kind. Carson really had the best band around.

[@bobkain350]

Doc is 90 and still doing concerts. Amazing....

[@elfinmajictime]

IS. He's still around and playing at 93!

[@MarkSmith-hf5nh]

I didn't realize how good he was. Some of his performances were just classic. And they were just for the show.

[@imxploring]

Incredible musicians...... every last one of them!

[@jamesdrynan]

Severinsen's top range was remarkable! A superlative musician surrounded by the elite players of the time.

[@fernmann7]

High and still soooo sweet sounding

[@dgdiyer1191]

It was a shame that Doc did not get to play more segments on the Tonight Show. Something like this featured performance was rare on that show. Have seen Doc live twice. Excellent performances. Such a great clean sound. I relish all of my many vinyl Doc LPs.

[@danieldlopez5866]

Love Doc, he was my idol growing up. Because of him I started playing the Trumpet at a young age, then auditioned into a military band where I played another four years. That Trumpet kept me off drugs and out of gangs. I met Doc a few years ago. A real class act. He’s one of my favorite trumpet players not only for his ability on the trumpet and talent but his showmanship as well. There will never be another trumpeter like him.

[@lightshadow44]

Heaven, must be Like this! What a band of Pros! And Doc, well , there it is!

[@stuarthecht8196]

All I can say is WOW! Nothing like Doc, Tommy and the band, Johnny, and Ed. They live in my heart forever.

[@benkleschinsky]

The Tonight Show on the air today is in name only. No Comparison.

[@kevinkline7242]

And Trump is president in name only. They both are a stretch.

[@highmd]

You can watch the old shows on PlutoTV. 24x7 Brings back a lot of memories

[@lousarmento1127]

Never realized how much talent this man possesses until I heard this - would pay top dollar to hear him live.

[@TrumpetMAB]

I have seen him live and let me tell you, it was all worth it.

[@TheBURTTO]

Darn I miss this era and band!

[@tvvoice]

I never noticed until this morning what Doc does on the last note. It's a concert Eb above Bb (or F above C for trumpet) and he's holding the first valve down. Well, to cut off the band with his right hand as he holds out that beautiful note, he smoothly switches the 1st valve down with his left thumb at the last second! Brilliant! Overall, the greatest trumpeter ever! I had the pleasure of introducing him to the stage in 1985 o 86 when he and his band Xebron appeared at UOP in Stockton.

[@juancarlossanchez2792]

Eb de concierto es F en Bb

[@richardmcdoanld4339]

I was wondering who noticed! Peak of preforming 🎺 in that day

[@eric_in_florida]

Just complete control of an instrument. Incredible. When I discovered the TS as a young teen it was like...wow. Just all of it.

[@robsm5570]

Watch at the end...Johnny loved Doc and the band as much as anyone did. Doc, in a class of his own imo.

[@fernmann7]

No doubt

[@davidyoung353]

thank you for posting this! I spent every week night of my middle school and high school days staying up hoping Doc and the band would have time to play before the end of the show! He simply had the purest upper register of any trumpet player Ive ever heard. Many could play high but none could play high with such musicality.

[@sethwexler6910]

Such great playing! And dig that tux shirt that he has on

[@tylermorrison7051]

They're smoking it!

[@williamharris1131]

WOW! It just doesn't get any better than this! Great memories of a by gone era back when late night TV was genuinely funny and the music was awesome!

[@johnmclelland4278]

Doc was and still is a BEAST!

[@dogbarbill]

I missed seeing this the night it aired. I was on a vacation/road trip and was spending the night in a rest area outside of Rock Springs, WY. And this was a Monday night in 1979. Doc was the Master. Doc just had a birthday recently, he is now 94.

[@museumjunkie9317]

There are many video's of Doc playing a few years ago at 92 years old with the San Miguel Five. He turned 94 on July 7, 2021

[@bh5606]

So many years ago and such fun.

[@FollowerSt]

He is the one and only that is awesome. He makes it look easy.

[@jasonrfoss248]

That fast wah wah guitar was tremendous. Love hearing that in songs from that era.

[@miltonbroome9725]

Not the make believe bands of Leno and Fallon. Pure class!

[@lindatague9112]

PBS recently has a segment on his life til now. Very interesting! What an incredible man.

[@tpledger100]

last note he put his left thumb on the first valve so he could conduct with his right hand!

[@sr633]

Wow ! I never heard the Doc showcased like that, .

[@spearsba]

I love that this video fell into my feed. I grew up on classic Carson and Doc and the band were amazing.

[@don4476]

Imagine doing that. Cameras in your face. Lights blinding you. Johnny Carson just feet away. A studio audience. And millions watching on TV.

[@CT--lj9ck]

That Rhapsody in blue at the end

[@JohnUSA7]

Doc should have played a lot more on The Tonight Show. He was a unique and very special trumpet player. He is very much missed.

[@sammy2840]

Doc is great! He just does it every time! Wow!

[@richardlopez46]

Doesn't get much better than that!

[@DubhglasZaffa]

Timeless!

[@Nunofurdambiznez]

Loved Doc's playing.. AND his hair!! both are great!!

[@robertdiotalevi2882]

"Listen What Happens..." So dope!

[@WilliamT1964]

@j.j.cagney I'd like to know what you think is good music. But I believe you're just a bored troll.

[@dalehilltopfarm]

The one and only!

[@maddogmcrae]

After The Lawrence Welk Show went off the air, The Tonight Show Band was the last big band that performed regularly on television left.

[@johnmcilroy6874]

Doc was the greatest all round trumpeter who ever lived. A total genius!

[@WilliamT1964]

How can anyone not like this??

[@davidhilleymusic]

And the INCOMPARABLE Johnny Smith on guitar !!!!

[@194919671982]

It's great we really don't have to miss these guys anymore. Between KZbin, Antennae TV and now Johnnies own dedicated channel on Pluto TV you can can all the Johnny you want.

[@garylsmalley]

That was EPIC!!!

[@budlawrence4847]

The Doc!

[@menyherthorak1631]

WOW 👌

[@MarkSmith-hf5nh]

What I didn't realize back then was that Johnny paid for a full 10-man band to play every night. He didn't have to. He owned the show. But Doc and Tommy and the rest were a major part of the experience.

[@larrysmith6797]

10? Even s three year old can count better: Four Trumpets + Three Trombones + Five Saxophones + Guitar + Bass + Piano + Drums + Doc. That's SEVENTEEN.

[@hubbardsucks]

I heard or read an interview with Doc saying at one time he pitched the idea to Carson about slimming down to a smaller 6 or 7 piece band . Johnny said no way. He loved the full Big Band sound.

[@rickdavenport9538]

That's how it's done!!!!

[@wmarkj]

Thanks. Gotta love it!

[@jackosallotment6224]

Love it! Awesome!

[@pietrusabalardus1881]

Really, everything Maynard could do but in tune and clean.

[@mhenrikse]

and with a good sound

[@jorgecallico9177]

Disagree. Great technique but Doc never got a truly big sound. Maynard always did. In that respect? No comparison.

[@MJ2420]

@@jorgecallico9177 You apparently never had the pleasure of hearing Doc and Maynard in person.

[@GosokuRyuYodan]

The word you're looking for is "precise." Doc was incredibly accurate.

[@edwinr2613]

Doc is good but didn't have the range and tone Maynard had

[@davesax11]

Back in the early 60's (1860's?) my dad brought home an LP "Persuasive Percussion." It was part of a big band series led by Doc. Great personnel inc Clark Terry. I was hooked on big band for life. Tho now my tastes run more toward Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra (Marsalis), Don Ellis, Mingus Big Band...

[@davesax11]

My bad. maybe not Doc at all. Persuasive / Provocative percussion - Terry Snyder / Enoch Light. Sounds pretty cheezy now (LOL)....

[@davesax11]

One of those days - Doc did play on at least some of these: www.discogs.com/Various-Persuasive-Percussion-1966/release/3389521

[@pietrusabalardus1881]

To: Davesax. I have really mixed feelings about Marsalis. I really do not know what is going on there and perhaps it’s not my place to know. However, I just can’t get over the man who on recordings ( some who have worked with him have stories) was, with Maurice André, the greatest, most musical, Classical trumpet player of the 20th century to becomes the unelected mortician for jazz, put it in a museum so it will have what he regards as “the respect” accorded white music. But this is not doing anyone any solid good because big-band Jazz is a god-given unique contribution of Blacks to Western culture. No, it’s not 100% Black but Jazz cannot be imagined without blackness. But Marsalis turns some of the greats of jazz into elitist, please-call-me-sir stiff necks that do the image of the freedom of jazz no appreciable good. When I was a kid I had the opportunity of chatting several times with Louis Armstrong. I can honestly say that he treated me, a kid of thirteen, like an absolute equal. I never met anyone like him. He had no sense of being a great man. He even invited me to “come over some time” and we’ll play a little. I was totally incapable of that. I loved the trumpet but I was certainly no prodigy. Just a kid with ordinary talent. The point: I can’t imagine this man insisting on being called Loú-is. I was embarrassed by the Marsalis program on Count Basie. The man is hardly cold in his grave, many of his regulars are still alive, and Wynton Marsalis must run interference for him with whites so they’ll know the history of jazz. Well, let all that go. No question-there are great people in that group. But it’s a studio group. Listen to their dotted- eighths-and-sixteenths. They’re strictly ligit Great. But it doesn’t swing. Listen to Marsalis. Then listen to Basie play the same tune. You can’t put a wild Byrd in a White cage.

[@dalewikfors9194]

My hero. Amen🙏

[@WilliamStaab]

The Best!

[@tommyreilly8319]

PBS had a special on Doc recently.Hes still teaching and touring.

[@TheAutumnRhapsody]

Wow!!!!

[@gm12551]

I can imagine a 50 year old man looking 62 sitting down in his chair like Archie Bunker, smoking cigarettes and watching this while tapping his foot.

[@daveb9342]

Lawrence Welk would've loved having Doc in his Orchestra.

[@Cream1968]

Disco Doc! 😉

[@anthonybilello7359]

0Now that was the tonight show Doc killed it every night

[@masapell]

Good ol’ Pete Christlieb there in the back on tenor sax!!! God I love that trumpet sound!

[@fernmann7]

What a simply monster player

[@michaelchapman4955]

Several of these Tonight Show Band musicians like Conte Candoli I use to catch at Sev local SFV Jazz Supper Clubs which back in the Day were plentiful from Studio City to Tarzana 'Incl. Burbank & Toluca Lake I'd catch All 3 sets 'Such passion & talent'......

[@flyboy9385]

Freaking awesome

[@tylermorrison7051]

Go Doc go!

[@juancarlossanchez2792]

Grande grande Doc

[@Hovermaster]

Dang he just soars

[@allenrussell1947]

If your not a brass player it may not occur to you how loud he is playing. That's 120db or close to it.

[@ChuckWeirich]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@chillbuddy4178]

❤️❤️❤️

[@pianopappy]

In one of Doc's earliest featured performances with the Tonight Show Orchestra, he played an exciting duet with Clark Terry on Neal Hefti's tune, '"Terry Time", on August 29, 1963, when the program originated in New York. A few days after Doc’s 93rd birthday, I posted it at: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bZusoIFvrbl1Zqc

[@dougsimmons3768]

Out of the 100 or so comments that I read, only 5 including me (real trumpet players I assume) saw “what happened.” You know who you are and I’m not going to ruin it for those who haven’t seen it yet. If you’re not a player and a performer, you have no idea how hard that was.

[@mikegilbert2500]

I did play horn, for 10 years, and I know how incredibly and impossibly difficult that was. Doc is among the all-time all-time greats. Maybe at the very top..

[@jamescherney5874]

Always liked the one handed F's he would end on holding the 1 st valve down with his thumb.

[@davidcarson1959]

You can't imagine the difficulty

[@toniwilson1579]

Doc has put being from Oregon on the map. He still live here somewhere but unless he's on the road keep a low profile. He doesn't live in any of the big city or town. Who can blame him .

[@peterle6883]

That’s called earning his money.

[@chrisbauer7855]

What a trumpet player...a true master of his craft. And that band was the best jazz ensemble ever assembled (did you catch the bass trombone on this, by the way?).

[@bradmiller9121]

Doc and a couple of other guys from the band came to our community and did a couple of clinics for the high school jazz bands in our area. I think maybe Tommy and Ed Shaughnessy came with him but I'm not perfectly clear on that.

[@hankkingsley2976]

Tommy didn't do clinics he went to clinics

[@bradmiller9121]

@@hankkingsley2976 lol that's another video.

[@timrenshaw7298]

Tune from Michel LeGrand!

[@michaelperri9627]

Maynard was fantastic but Doc interpretation of songs for me was better

[@marcparella]

Johnny you should have had Doc and the Band performed more often. Your guests never had an applause like that.

[@fernmann7]

This was the 17th anniversary show.

[@DubhglasZaffa]

Can i post in my channel please? Thank you!

[@landongarrison1930]

0:41-0:47 the sickest trumpet run I've ever heard you play that in front of your band and see what happens

[@hsh1950]

Haha! One handed high "F" while he cuts the band off! Yep!!

[@stevecook4625]

listen to Al Hirt. Doc was technically perfect. Als talent made him better.

[@tripjet999]

Impossible to be at "1080p," when the master tape was only 480p.

[@maddogmcrae]

I guess you never heard of up scaling.

[@da11king]

Was that last held note a high F alternate fingering?(open)

[@jimellis2864]

It is a high F. If you look closely, you can see that after beginning the note, he holds the first valve down with his left thumb to free up the right hand to direct the cut off.

[@da11king]

@@jimellis2864 oh wow thanks! Never heard of pressing the first valve with the left thumb 🤓👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@olsenharris6044]

What’s this music piece callled

[@fernmann7]

Watch What Happens

[@markvegas7152]

Maynard was a high note specialist and I am convinced sacrifice musicianship for the sake of those high notes not one song does he caress the melody to its fruition maybe once he will go through in the mid register and he does have a sweet tone there a beautiful tone but the addiction to the high note takes over right away and eat starts screeching first chance he gets this gets very painful after a while I would like to hear Maynard just one time play an entire song just on the lushness of his mid register maybe one or two super high notes at the end for drama but no my friend Ferguson was a high note Junkie unlike Doc Severinsen who has a formidable High register but understood the beauty of the mid register an example in point is Herb Albert he never ever goes to the super high register and he made millions and millions of dollars with that sweet middle register alone

[@danielmalloy6093]

Mister Mellow would fit that catagory.

[@HardRockMiner]

What happens ??