Doc Severinsen News

It was pre-Internet, pre-reality shows and pre-HDTV. It was an era when "The Tonight Show" was a part of American homes as breakfast, lunch and dinner.

The Minnesota Orchestra completed its artistic leadership team Monday by making an in-house hire of a popular employee.

Chris Botti switched from the piano to the trumpet when he was 9. "The initial spark was watching Doc Severinsen," he said.

While saxophonist Branford Marsalis takes his work seriously, he isn't afraid to take risks, both through his sensitive and adventurous improvisations, and on a career path that has taken him from The Tonight Show and mainstream success to founding an independent label and shucking jazz conventions.

Posted by ALEXIS DOW, For The Patriot-News Thursday September 17, 2009, 10:22 AM Doc Severinson.

Doc Severinsen recalls how Erich Kunzel talked him into riding an elephant to make a grand entrance onto the Music Hall stage Jazz pianist Dave Brubeck talks about touring Europe with Kunzel, the Cincinnati Pops orchestra, and a 100-voice Miami University choir after recording "The Light in the Wilderness" album with the Pops in 1968.

17. Severinsen, making his third appearance in Portsmouth, has made more than 30 albums, from big band to jazz to classical, and now he is introducing a new genre, Mexican music, Argentine tango, Spanish flamenco and gypsy jazz.

Opportunities are still available to secure individual tickets for all concerts in the Goshen College Performing Arts Series.

Bob Karlovits can be reached via e-mail or at 412-320-7852. Read the Trib on your Kindle Guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli laughs when talk turns back a few decades to his days with Doc Severinsen and the Tonight Show Orchestra.

Get the Flash Player to see this player. Earlier this year, Steve Wiest was appointed director of the University of North Texas' celebrated, world-traveling jazz group, the One O'Clock Lab Band.

Starry Night With Starry Night , Jackie Allen celebrates her ninth release; a live recording with orchestra featuring star-themed songs arranged expressly for her by seven gifted professionals who have written for such luminaries as Duke Ellington, Frank Sinatra, Doc Severinsen, Bobby McFerrin and Diana Krall.

In this Friday, May 22, 1992 file photo, talk show host Johnny Carson, behind his desk, Doc Severinsen, left, leader of "The Tonight Show Band", and announcer Ed McMahon, center, share some moments together during the final taping of the "Tonight Show" in Burbank, Ca.

Grammy Nominee and noted composer/arranger, Phil Kelly has joined the Artists Recording Collective .

"People ask us what kind of music we play," Doc Severinsen said Friday, early in a benefit concert for the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music with El Ritmo de la Vida.

Dr. Will Campbell presents concert with the Verdigris All-State Jazz Band, Verdigris E-Band and Jazz Combo Bands, 7 p.m., at the Rogers State University Auditorium.

St. Petersburg - Two legendary pianists, Dick Hyman and Derek Smith, perform jazz interpretations of great movie hits on two pianos at the Palladium Theater on Saturday, April 25 at 8 p.m. Hyman and Smith will be doing selections from their Arbors Records album - 'Dick and Derek at the Movies.' Songs include great film classics like 'Forty-Second ...

Over the past few years, The Tonight Show has become a better way to get exposure for your up-and-coming indie band than radio play - somehow, in the time between the "everyone gets backed up by Doc Severinsen " days and the present day, radio became far more conservative than NBC 's 50-plus year old institution.

When the audience rises for its customary ovation on March 30, 2010, it will conclude a 2009-2010 Performing Arts Series featuring the most prestigious lineup of artists the series has ever seen.

The 2009-10 season of the Goshen College Performing Arts Series will again bring top-name musicians, with more than 30 Grammy Awards among them, to the college's Sauder Concert Hall stage.