Editing Doc Severinsen

{{Short description|American jazz trumpeter (born 1927)}}
{{BLP sources|date=August 2024}}
{{Infobox musical artist
| name            = Doc Severinsen
| image           = Doc Severinsen 1974.JPG
| caption         = Severinsen in a 1974 publicity photo<br/>for ''The Tonight Show''
| birth_name      = Carl Hilding Severinsen
| birth_date      = {{birth date and age|1927|7|7}}
| birth_place     = [[Arlington, Oregon]], U.S.
| genre           = [[Jazz]], swing, fusion, pop
| occupations     = Musician, bandleader
| instrument      = [[Trumpet]]
| years_active    = 1946–2022
| label           = [[Command Records|Command]], [[RCA Victor]], Amherst, [[Telarc International Corporation|Telarc]]
| past_member_of  = [[The Tonight Show Band|The NBC Orchestra]]
| website         = {{URL|www.docseverinsen.com}}
}}

'''Carl Hilding''' "'''Doc'''" '''Severinsen''' (born July 7, 1927) is an American retired jazz trumpeter who led the [[The Tonight Show Band|NBC Orchestra]] on ''[[The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson]]''.

==Early life==
Severinsen was born in [[Arlington, Oregon]], to Minnie Mae (1897–1998) and Carl Severinsen (1898–1972).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/42/Doc-Severinsen.html |title=Doc Severinsen profile |website=Filmreference.com |access-date=October 26, 2011}}</ref> He was nicknamed Doc after his father, the only dentist in Arlington, who was born in Germany to a Danish father and a Swiss mother. Severinsen's father played [[violin]] and wanted him to play it as well, but Severinsen wanted to play [[trombone]].<ref name="Huey">{{cite web |last1=Huey |first1=Steve |title=Doc Severinsen |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/doc-severinsen-mn0000167794/biography |website=AllMusic |access-date=October 4, 2017}}</ref> Because his arms were not long enough for trombone,<ref name=docseverinsen>{{cite web |url=http://www.docseverinsen.com/about/ |title=Bio |website=Doc Severinsen |date=10 January 2011 |access-date=December 30, 2022}}</ref> and the small Arlington music store had none available, he settled for the [[cornet]]. A neighbor provided him with some lessons, while his father, tobacco in mouth, instructed him to spit out the notes like spitting tobacco. His mother threatened to spank him if he didn't practice.<ref name="Jackovich">{{cite web |last1=Jackovich |first1=Karen |title=It's a Long Day's Journey from 'Tonight' When Doc Severinsen Comes Home to Oregon |url=http://people.com/archive/its-a-long-days-journey-from-tonight-when-doc-severinsen-comes-home-to-oregon-vol-16-no-2/ |website=People |access-date=October 4, 2017 |date=July 13, 1981}}</ref> Growing up, Severinsen idolized the trumpeter and band leader [[Harry James]].

<blockquote>"wining ([[sic]]) the <!-- Music Educator’s National Contest -->[[Music Teachers National Association]]’s National Contest at the age of 12"<ref name="pbs-am-Severinsen">{{cite web |last1=Amin |first1=Aisha |title=Never Too Late: The Doc Severinsen Story |url=https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/stream-never-too-late-doc-severinsen-story-documentary/17495/ |website=[[American Masters]] |publisher=[[PBS]] |access-date=14 February 2025 |date=8 March 2021}}</ref> - [[PBS]]</blockquote>

Severinsen proved to have a knack for the instrument, and was in a high school band when he was seven. At 9, he won a state trumpet contest, at 13, he joined a multi-state all-star band and, at 14, he auditioned for [[Tommy Dorsey]] but was not hired. He started a quartet called the Blue Notes that performed at local dances.<ref name="Jackovich" />

Before graduating from high school, he was hired to go on the road with the [[Ted Fio Rito]] Orchestra.<ref name="Jackovich" /> After graduation, he went on tour with [[Charlie Barnet]], [[Tommy Dorsey]], and [[Benny Goodman]].<ref name="Huey" /> He served in the Army during World War II.<ref name=docseverinsen/> Severinsen was a member of [[Sam Donahue]]'s band between 1946 and 1951. In 1946, he played trumpet on radio station [[KODL]].<ref>{{cite web |publisher=RadioFreshing KODL |title=About Us |url=http://www.kodl.com/KODL/media/abotkodl.html |access-date=April 13, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090627112552/http://www.kodl.com/KODL/media/abotkodl.html |archive-date=June 27, 2009}}</ref>

==''The Tonight Show'' and other television appearances==
In 1949, Severinsen landed a job as a studio musician for [[NBC]], where he accompanied [[Steve Allen]], [[Eddie Fisher]], [[Dinah Shore]], and [[Kate Smith]], and was a member of the original band for ''[[Tonight Starring Steve Allen]]'', and was the soloist playing the closing theme. He left the show with Allen in 1957.<ref name="Jackovich" /> The leader of [[The Tonight Show Band]], [[Skitch Henderson]], asked him to return as first-chair trumpeter in 1962 for what had become ''[[The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson]]'', and five years later, after [[Milton Delugg]], Severinsen was leading the band.<ref name=docseverinsen/>

Under Severinsen's direction, The Tonight Show Band, styled the NBC Orchestra, became perhaps the best known [[big band]] in America.<ref>{{cite web|title=Flash|work=SPIN|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kYhJL9bSu1YC&pg=PT17|date=June 1992|publisher=SPIN Media|page=17|volume=8|issue=3|issn=0886-3032}}</ref> Severinsen became one of the most popular bandleaders, appearing almost every night on television. He led the band during commercials and while guests were introduced. He joked with [[Johnny Carson]], the show's host, and developed an amusing habit of wearing gaudy clothing.<ref name="Huey" />

The show introduced a comic "Stump the Band" segment in which audience members called out the titles of obscure songs to see if the band could play them. Severinsen often cried "key of E", his signal for the band to strike up a western theme, and then he would enthusiastically sing a [[country music]]-flavored nonsense song.

Severinsen substituted for [[Ed McMahon]] on occasions when Ed was absent as Carson's announcer and sidekick. He typically assumed this role when the show featured a guest host, which became increasingly frequent during the program's later years. [[Tommy Newsom]] was usually the band's substitute director when Severinsen was away from the show or filling in for McMahon. The sidekick role was omitted from the show when Leno guest hosted (it was discontinued altogether after Leno replaced Carson permanently). While Leno guest hosted for Carson, Severinsen typically introduced Leno and led the band while interacting with Leno in a similar manner to his interactions with Carson and McMahon.

Doc continued as bandleader until Carson's retirement in May 1992. Doc, along with Tommy Newsom and Ed Shaughnessy, appeared on the January 31, 2005 episode of ''[[Late Show with David Letterman]]'' performing "[[Here's That Rainy Day]]" in honor of Johnny Carson, who died on January 23 of that same year. He appeared on [[The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon|Jimmy Fallon's ''Tonight Show'']] in February 2015 when the show traveled to Los Angeles for a week. He played for the evening with [[The Roots]]. The appearance helped to promote his nationwide tour.

Through the 1970s to the 1990s Severinsen also made appearances on ''[[Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In]]'', ''[[Bonanza]]'', ''[[The Bionic Woman]]'', ''[[Cheers]]'' and ''[[The Larry Sanders Show]]'', among others.

==Recording career==
During the early 1960s, Severinsen began recording big band albums, then moved toward instrumental pop music by the end of the decade. In the 1970s he recorded jazz funk, then disco, finding hits with "Night Journey" and "I Wanna Be With You". He released an album with the jazz fusion group Xebron in 1985. During the next year, he recorded ''[[The Tonight Show Band with Doc Severinsen]]'' which won the [[Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Performance]]. After Carson retired in 1992, he toured with some of the band's members, including [[Conte Candoli]], [[Snooky Young]], [[Bill Perkins (saxophonist)|Bill Perkins]], [[Ernie Watts]], [[Ross Tompkins]], and [[Ed Shaughnessy]].<ref name="Huey" />

Severinsen performed with high school bands, in particular in the 1970s with [[Don Caneva]]'s [[John Hersey High School]] Bands, which recorded four albums.<ref>{{cite news|last=Daday|first=Eileen O.|date=August 11, 2008 |title=Ex-Hersey band director remembered|url=http://prev.dailyherald.com/story/?id=234215 |work=Daily Herald |location=Chicago, IL |access-date=September 25, 2015|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925201421/http://prev.dailyherald.com/story/?id=234215 |archive-date=September 25, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Obituaries, "Don Ernest Caneva"|work=U-T San Diego| date=September 8, 2008|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/utsandiego/obituary.aspx?n=donald-ernest-caneva&pid=116923834|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150621094728/http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/utsandiego/obituary.aspx?n=donald-ernest-caneva&pid=116923834|archive-date=June 21, 2015|url-status=live |access-date=September 25, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Gonzalez|first=Blanca|date=September 16, 2008|title=Don Caneva; third-generation band director had music in his blood|url=http://www.utsandiego.com/uniontrib/20080916/news_1m16caneva.html|work=U-T San Diego|access-date=September 25, 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141110000820/http://www.utsandiego.com/uniontrib/20080916/news_1m16caneva.html|archive-date=November 10, 2014}}</ref>

He performed the "[[Star-Spangled Banner]]" on at least three nationally telecast occasions; however, the first two renditions were marred by problems. When he accompanied actor [[Pat O'Brien (actor)|Pat O'Brien]], as O'Brien recited the National Anthem at [[Super Bowl IV]], the public address system at [[Tulane Stadium]] went dead for a minute, although viewers were unaware of it. Fifteen years later, when he performed the anthem again prior to the [[Marvin Hagler vs. Thomas Hearns]] fight, a giant US flag on the side of the Fantasy Tower at [[Caesar's Palace]] overlooking the outdoor ring was not unfurled properly due to problems with the roping. He performed the anthem again, as well as "[[O Canada]]", at the [[1989 Major League Baseball All-Star Game]] in [[Anaheim, California]]. With the game being played in the Los Angeles television and radio market, he was accompanied by the ''Tonight Show'' band. As of 2020, Severinsen and the NBC Orchestra's performance remains the most recent non-vocal rendition of the national anthem at the Midsummer Classic.

Severinsen is credited for co-writing the hit song "[[Stop and Smell the Roses (Mac Davis song)|Stop and Smell the Roses]]" with [[Mac Davis]], although both parties agree that Severinsen only came up with the title.<ref>{{cite book|author=Hyatt, Wesley|year=1999|title=The Billboard Book of No. 1 Adult Contemporary Hits|publisher=Billboard Publications|isbn=0823076938}}</ref>

==Conducting and teaching==
[[File:Doc Severinsen In Seattle 2009.JPG|thumb|200px|Severinsen in 2009]]
Severinsen was the principal pops conductor for several American orchestras during and after his time on ''The Tonight Show''. His first position was with the [[Phoenix Symphony]] in 1983.<ref>{{cite web|title=Artistic Staff − Doc Severinsen |url=http://www.phoenixsymphony.org/artists/artistic_staff_severinsen.html |publisher=Phoenix Symphony |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070209005049/http://www.phoenixsymphony.org/artists/artistic_staff_severinsen.html |archive-date=February 9, 2007}}</ref> He then held similar positions with the [[Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra]], [[Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra]], and [[Minnesota Orchestra]].<ref name="Huey" />

He retired from conducting in 2007 and was named Pops Conductor Emeritus in Milwaukee<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.milwaukeesymphony.org/newspress/newsreviewsarchives/view.asp?id=30025839|title=Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra|website=Milwaukeesymphony.org|access-date=February 5, 2016}}</ref> and Pops Conductor Laureate in Minnesota.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.playbillarts.com/news/article/4905.html |title=News: Doc Severinsen to Step Down as Minnesota Orchestra's Pops Conductor |website=Playbillarts.com |date=2006-07-15 |access-date=2011-10-26}}</ref> Severinsen was also named distinguished visiting professor of music and Katherine K. Herberger Heritage Chair for Visiting Artists at Arizona State University School of Music in 2001 and 2002.<ref>[http://music.asu.edu/e-Notes/Summer2002/severinsen_sum02.html ASU HCFA SOM {{!}} e-Notes {{!}} Severinsen in concert] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060904105605/http://music.asu.edu/e-Notes/Summer2002/severinsen_sum02.html |date=September 4, 2006}}</ref>

In 2014, he was inducted into the [[Scandinavian-American Hall of Fame]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/aug/21/3-being-inducted-into-scandinavian-american-hall/|title=3 new inductees to Scandinavian-American Hall|work=The Washington Times|access-date=February 5, 2016}}</ref>

Severinsen performed his final concert, accompanied by his San Miguel 5 group, on September 1, 2022, in [[Saratoga Springs, New York]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Freedman |first1=Geraldine |title=Doc's last show: Severinsen, 95, to play at Universal Preservation Hall in Saratoga Springs with San Miguel 5 |url=https://dailygazette.com/2022/08/25/docs-last-show-severinsen-95-to-play-uph-with-san-miguel-5/ |website=The Daily Gazette |access-date=September 2, 2022 |date=August 25, 2022}}</ref>

==Personal life==
[[File:Doc Severinsen and daughter Nancy 1974.JPG|thumb|180px|Severinsen with daughter Nancy, in 1974. Nancy was part of a vocal group called Today's Children, which often performed with him.]]

On June 23, 1949, Severinsen married Jane Simpson Frazer. They had four children before divorcing.

On August 7, 1964, Severinsen married Evonne Nyman. They had one child and were divorced in 1976.

In 1980, he married Emily Marshall, who was a television writer and producer and is an on-camera subject in a 2020 PBS documentary produced by [[American Masters]] titled ''Never Too Late: The Doc Severinsen Story'' that premiered April 2, 2021.<ref name="NYT-Doc 2021">{{cite web |title=Doc Severinsen Recalls High Notes, Low Notes and Everything in Between |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/28/arts/television/doc-severinsen-pbs.html |date=March 28, 2021 |access-date=2021-04-03}}</ref><ref>{{cite episode|title=Never Too Late: The Doc Severinsen Story|url=https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/stream-never-too-late-doc-severinsen-story-documentary/17495/|series=[[American Masters]]|orig-date=April 2, 2021|season=35|number=4|access-date=April 3, 2021}}</ref> They met when she was working as a secretary for ''The Tonight Show'' producer [[Fred de Cordova]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Sheff|first=Vicki|url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20119094,00.html|title=Doc Severinsen Finds His Key, and It's Writer Emily Marshall| website=People.com| date=1988-12-19| access-date=2011-10-26}}</ref> In 1992, after The Tonight Show, Severinsen moved to Mexico with his wife, and formed a new band, The San Miguel Five. They divorced in 2006. Marshall died in 2023.

By 2013, Severinsen was living in Tennessee for a few years, moving to Tennessee to be closer to Cathy Leach, principal trumpeter with the [[Knoxville Symphony Orchestra]] and professor of trumpet at the University of Tennessee.<ref name="shns/severinsen-85">{{cite news |last1=Bledsoe |first1=Wayne |title=At 85, Doc Severinsen still a young man with a horn |url=https://www.eastvalleytribune.com/get_out/performance/at-85-doc-severinsen-still-a-young-man-with-a-horn/article_6059d38a-b157-11e2-af01-001a4bcf887a.html |access-date=14 February 2025 |work=[[East Valley Tribune]] |agency=[[Scripps Howard News Service]] |date=30 April 2013 |language=en}}</ref> {{as of|2021}} Severinsen's "companion"<ref name="NYT-Doc 2021" /> was trumpet player Cathy Leach,<ref>{{cite web |title=Bio |url=https://cathyleachtrumpet.com/bio/ |website=Cathy Leach, trumpet |access-date=14 February 2025}}</ref> a [[professor emerita]] of trumpet at the [[University of Tennessee]]. In 2022, Leach was cited as his wife.<ref>{{cite web |title=Legendary Tonight Show Band Leader, Trumpeter Doc Severinsen Featured at Gardner-Webb |url=https://gardner-webb.edu/news/legendary-doc-severinsen-featured-on-gwu-campus/ |website=Gardner-Webb University |access-date=14 February 2025}}</ref> Severinsen and Leach perform together.<ref>{{cite web |title=Events |url=https://cathyleachtrumpet.com/events/ |website=Cathy Leach, trumpet |access-date=14 February 2025}}</ref>

Severinsen has been quoted as saying that he has been married four times.<ref>{{cite web |last=Turner |first=Brett |title=News |website=Doc Severinsen |date=2011-01-10 |url=https://www.docseverinsen.com/news/ |access-date=2021-04-03}}</ref>

Severinsen's children are Nancy, Cindy, Allen, Robin, and Judy. He has eight grandchildren, including Blaire and Gray Reinhard, who write and perform roots rock music together in various incarnations as Curtis & Reinhard and the [[Blaire Reinhard Band]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.docseverinsen.com/news/|title=Doc Severinsen|website=Doc Severinsen|language=en-US|access-date=2018-05-17}}</ref>

==Discography==
* ''A String of Trumpets'' ([[Everest Records|Everest]], 1960) with Billy Mure
* ''Tempestuous Trumpet'' ([[Command Records|Command]], 1961)
* ''The Big Band's Back in Town'' (Command, 1962)
* ''Torch Songs for Trumpet'' (Command, 1963)<ref>Harold, Chuck. [https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ZVdQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=7FYDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7191,3615346&dq "Platter Patter: Album Recalls Kennedy's Death"], ''The St. Petersburg Evening Independent''. December 21, 1963. Retrieved 2013-09-30.</ref>
* ''High, Wide & Wonderful'' (Command, 1965)
* ''Fever!'' (Command, 1966) (Pop No. 147)
* ''Command Performances'' (Command, 1966) (Pop No. 133)
* ''Live!: The Doc Severinsen Sextet'' (Command, 1967)
* ''Swinging & Singing'' (Command, 1967)
* ''The New Sound of Today's Big Band'' (Command, 1967)
* ''The Great Arrival'' (Command, 1968)
* ''Doc Severinsen & Strings'' (Command, 1968)
* ''Doc Severinsen's Closet'' (Command, 1970)
* ''Brass Roots'' ([[RCA Victor]], 1971) (Pop No. 185)
* ''Sixteen Great Performances'' ([[ABC Records]], 1971)
* ''Brass on Ivory'' (RCA Victor, 1972) (Pop No. 74) with [[Henry Mancini]]
* ''Doc'' (RCA Victor, 1972)
* ''Brass, Ivory & Strings'' (RCA Victor, 1973) (Pop No. 185) with Henry Mancini
* ''Rhapsody for Now!'' (RCA Victor, 1973)
* ''Trumpets & Crumpets & Things'' ([[ABC Records|ABC]], 1973)
* ''Night Journey'' ([[Epic Records|Epic]], 1976) (Pop No. 189)
* ''Brand New Thing'' (Epic, 1977)
* ''Live from Beautiful Downtown Burbank'' Tommy Newsom Featuring Doc Severinsen (Direct Disk Labs, 1978)
* ''Doc Severinsen and Friends'' (Everest, 1978)
* ''London Sessions'' (Firstline, 1980)
* ''Seductive Strings Featuring Doc Severinsen'' (Bainbridge, 1980)
* ''Doc Severinsen Plays Modern Trumpet Concertos'' (Firstline, 1981)
* ''And Xebron'' ([[Passport Records|Passport]], 1985)
* ''Episodes'' (Pro-Arte, 1986)
* ''Ja-Da'' ([[MCA Records|MCA]], 1986)
* ''[[The Tonight Show Band with Doc Severinsen]]'' (Amherst, 1986) (Pop No. 65)
* ''The Tonight Show Band with Doc Severinsen, Vol. II'' (Amherst, 1988)
* ''Facets'' (Amherst, 1988)
* ''The Big Band Hit Parade'' ([[Telarc International Corporation|Telarc]], 1989)
* ''Trumpet Spectacular'' (Telarc, 1990)
* ''Once More...With Feeling!'' (Amherst, 1991)
* ''Merry Christmas from Doc Severinsen and The Tonight Show Orchestra'' (Amherst, 1991) (Pop No. 171)
* ''Unforgettably Doc'' (Telarc, 1992)
* ''Good Medicine'' (RCA/[[Bluebird Records|Bluebird]], 1992)
* ''Lullabies and Goodnight'' (Critique, 1992)
* ''Two Sides of Doc Severinsen'' (The Right Stuff, 1993)
* ''Swingin' the Blues'' (Azica, 1999)
* ''From the Archives'' (Essential Media Group, 2012)
* ''Torch Songs for Trumpet (Command, 2025)

===Doc Severinsen and the San Miguel Five===
* ''El Ritmo De La Vida'' (Tejate, 2009) with Gil Gutierrez<ref>{{cite web |title=Bio |url=https://www.docseverinsen.com/about/ |website=Doc Severinsen |access-date=14 February 2025 |date=10 January 2011}}</ref> and Pedro Cartas
* ''En Mi Corazon'' (Tejate, 2010) with Gil Gutierrez and Pedro Cartas
* ''Oblivion'' ([[Bandcamp]], 14 November 2013);<ref>{{cite web |author1=Doc Severinsen & The San Miguel Five |title=Oblivion |url=https://gilgutierrez.bandcamp.com/album/oblivion |website=Gil Gutiérrez |publisher=[[bandcamp]] |access-date=14 February 2025 |language=en}}</ref> ([[CD Baby]], 2014);<ref>{{cite web|title=Doc Severinsen {{!}} Album Discography|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/doc-severinsen-mn0000167794/discography|website=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=October 4, 2017}}</ref>  with Gil Gutierrez,<ref name="San Miguel Five in Grass Valley">{{cite web |title=Doc Severinsen and the San Miguel Five |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlcjcmpagpE |website=[[YouTube]] |access-date=14 February 2025 |date=27 June 2014 |quote=Doc Severinsen joins Gil Gutiérrez and the San Miguel Five in Grass Valley, CA, as part of the Music in the Mountains Festival.}}</ref> Charlie Bisharat, Jimmy Branly, Kevin Thomas, Luis Conte , Otmaro Ruiz and Rene Camacho<ref>{{cite web |author1=Doc Severinsen & the San Miguel Five |title=Éjele |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bt0GiI911sY |website=[[YouTube]] |access-date=14 February 2025 |date=5 July 2015 |quote=℗ 2014 Gil Gutierrez & Doc Severinsen}}</ref>

===As sideman===
'''With [[Chris Connor]]'''
* 1959 ''Witchcraft''
* 1961 ''Chris Connor Sings the George Gershwin Almanac of Song''

'''With [[Ray Charles (musician, born 1918)|The Ray Charles Singers]]'''
* 1959 ''Sunrise Serenade'' (Decca)

'''With [[Urbie Green]]'''
* 1956 ''[[All About Urbie Green and His Big Band]]'' (ABC-Paramount)
* 1958 ''Let's Face the Music and Dance''
* 1960 ''The Persuasive Trombone of Urbie Green''
* 1963 ''Urbie Green & His Sextet''

'''With [[Skitch Henderson]] and "The Tonight Show" Orchestra'''
* 1964 ''Skitch...Tonight!''<ref>Skitch Henderson, liner notes to Columbia LP, CL 2367.</ref>
* 1965 ''More Skitch Tonight!''<ref>Mort Goode, liner notes to Columbia LP, CL 2450.</ref>

'''With [[Gerry Mulligan]]'''
* 1961 ''[[Gerry Mulligan Presents a Concert in Jazz]]'' 
* 1963 ''[[Gerry Mulligan '63]]''

'''With [[Tito Puente]]'''
* 1957 ''Night Beat''
* 1957 ''Top Percussion''
* 1960 ''Tambó''

'''With others'''
* 1956 ''The Swingin' Miss "D"'', [[Dinah Washington]]
* 1957 ''Dinah Washington Sings'', [[Fats Waller]]
* 1957 ''[[Stormy Weather (Lena Horne album)|Stormy Weather]]'', [[Lena Horne]]
* 1958 ''Steve Allen at the Roundtable'', [[Steve Allen]]
* 1958 ''United Nations'', [[Toshiko Akiyoshi]]
* 1959 ''[[Late Date with Ruth Brown]]'', [[Ruth Brown]]
* 1959 ''More Charlie Barnet'', [[Charlie Barnet]]
* 1959 ''[[New York, N.Y.]]'', [[George Russell (composer)|George Russell]]
* 1959 ''Plays Gerry Mulligan Arrangements'', [[Gene Krupa]]
* 1961 ''[[Gloomy Sunday and Other Bright Moments]]'', [[Bob Brookmeyer]]
* 1961 ''[[The Jazz Version of "How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying"]]'', [[Gary McFarland]]
* 1961 ''Into the Hot'', [[Gil Evans]]
* 1961 ''Memories Are Made of This'', [[Ray Conniff]]
* 1961 ''[[Perceptions (Dizzy Gillespie album)|Perceptions]]'', [[Dizzy Gillespie]]
* 1962 ''Bashin': The Unpredictable Jimmy Smith'', [[Jimmy Smith (musician)|Jimmy Smith]]
* 1962 ''[[All the Sad Young Men (album)|All the Sad Young Men]]'', [[Anita O'Day]]
* 1962 ''[[Big Bags]]'' (Riverside, 1962), [[Milt Jackson]]
* 1962 ''[[Big Band Bossa Nova (Stan Getz album)|Big Band Bossa Nova]]'', [[Stan Getz]]
* 1962 ''Big Noise from Winnetka'', [[Bob Haggart]]
* 1962 ''It's About Time'', [[Joe Morello]]
* 1962 ''Joe Morello'', Joe Morello
* 1962 ''Off Beat Percussion'', [[Don Lamond]]
* 1962 ''Spanish Guitar'', [[Tony Mottola]]
* 1962 ''Vibrations'', [[Enoch Light]]
* 1963 ''Right Here, Right Now'', [[Billy Taylor]]
* 1964 ''Dimension "3"'', Enoch Light
* 1974 ''The Hi-De-Ho Man'', [[Cab Calloway]]
* 1987 ''Jazz'', [[Tony Bennett]]
* 1988 ''Big Band Hit Parade'', [[Erich Kunzel]]
* 1989 ''Swinging West'', [[Steve Lawrence]]
* 1994 ''Eartha-quake'', [[Eartha Kitt]]
* 1994 ''Loose Walk'', [[Sonny Stitt]]
* 1997 ''Jammin' with Ben Webster'', [[Ben Webster]]
* 1999 ''Some Cats Know'', [[Connie Evingson]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Doc Severinsen {{!}} Credits {{!}} AllMusic|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/doc-severinsen-mn0000167794/credits|website=AllMusic|access-date=October 5, 2017}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
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* {{Official website|http://www.docseverinsen.com}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20140222160120/http://www.financialnewsandtalk.com/jazzatthespa/Dochour1.mp3 Jazz at the Spa interview] (audio)
* [https://www.namm.org/library/oral-history/doc-severinsen Interview with Doc Severinsen] at [[NAMM Oral History Program|NAMM Oral History Library]]
* {{IMDb name|0786341}}
* [https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/343217 Doc Severinsen recordings] at the [[Discography of American Historical Recordings]].
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[[Category:Musicians from Oregon]]
[[Category:21st-century American trumpeters]]
[[Category:21st-century American male musicians]]
[[Category:American male jazz musicians]]