biography
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Severinsen, Doc
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popular name of Carl H Severinsen
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1927– )
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| biography:
| Musician, born in Arlington, Oregon, USA. A trumpeter, he began as a band member with Ted Fio Rito in 1945. He subsequently worked in the big bands of Charles Barnet (1947–9), and intermittently with Tommy Dorsey (1949–55). He became a staff musician at National Broadcasting Company–TV (1954), appeared in the series, The Subject Is Jazz (1958), and became a member of the Tonight Show orchestra (1962). Between 1967 and the retirement (1992) of host Johnny Carson from the Tonight Show, he was the orchestra's leader, and also came to assume the role of a comic foil to Carson by wearing bizarre suits and engaging in banter. During this period, he toured sporadically with his own orchestra, conducted college clinics, and appeared as a soloist with symphony and pop orchestras nationwide. |
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