@@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...
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.
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.
I know Rock Springs and it is still a bar town where a guy will get whipped pretty quick if you aren't careful. The fact you were sleeping outside of Tock Springs and missed this performance of Doc...let's just say I am sad that happened and hope life is better for you now, after that low point, lol.
@@chrisnelson3925 That particular anniversary show can be found here on youtube. That trip I made was primarily a road trip/car camping trip. It was a long day that began in SLC, took me though Yellowstone NP and Jackson Hole. By the time I got to the rest area, I was worn completely out. Didn't take long for me to crash out in the back seat. I think I stopped in Rock Springs for gas, and then moved on.
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....
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
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?).
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'......
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 .
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.
I'm sorry,loved tonight show,like many talk shows had famous talented well schooled jazz musicians ( doc,drummer ed shaunessy,etc.) But iv'e NEVER heard doc sound like a good trumpeter,let alone a GREAT ONE! no competent trumpeter plays every solo strictly in the extreme highest register,supposedly to show how high they can play? And to butcher one of the prettiest tunes (watch what happens) by one of the most beloved composers ( michel legrend) is just musical sacrilege! Just shows how many tone deaf fans there are in the world. I'm sure doc was a good section mate,but honestly,as a soloist he was HORRIBLE! SAME HIGH PITCHED,SHOW OFF RUNS THAT ANY 2ND YEAR STUDENT CAN EXECUTE,OVER,AND,OVER,AND OVER,TUNE,AFTER TUNE FOR DECADES! JUST BEING HONEST.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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: ua-cam.com/video/7jIoN9xTB0E/v-deo.html
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.
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.
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...
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.
It's great we really don't have to miss these guys anymore. Between UA-cam, Antennae TV and now Johnnies own dedicated channel on Pluto TV you can can all the Johnny you want.
This is when America was GREAT, under the present morons we are under stress and uncertainity, these morons in this white house should all be found guilty of treason.
If anyone assumes disco was just a passing fad or a total musical abomination, know that it infiltrated pretty much every genre to some degree for a while in the mid to late seventies.
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
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.
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.
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..
Something else happened, and yes I blow, or used to. Also, I just saw Arturo (Sandoval) last month in Minneapolis back to back for three sets and got to meet him...Legend status with Maynard and Doc. Ok, it appears the piece was supposed to go longer but Doc ended it early. About 30 seconds from the end and just before he is ready to keep playing he stops and acts like there is something wrong with his lip. His lower lip almost looked swollen on the side. He looks right takes about a 5 - 6 beat break from playing, and gets back in to what feels is an alternative ending to the piece using his THUMB to keep the 1ST VALVE DEPRESSED on an INDEX finger 1st valve F to bring the orchestra to an alternative ending. Not that pulling off a thumb F isn't impressive, but I am curious if he did that often to close the band or was it something he was prepared and proficient in case of an emergency when the band had to quickly end?
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.
Rich Tapper Same, also why I play the trumpet!
Ok with you on that brother. 1st chair jazz performance band- ps. Hated marching band....just saying lol
@@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...
InstaBlaster.
Yeah the Doc watch was a vital part of The Tonight Show .
What a kick ass band - they were all top shelf players. Doc was amazing
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.
How awesome! Back when the late night entertainment was FUNNY and the music was AWESOME too!
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.
I know Rock Springs and it is still a bar town where a guy will get whipped pretty quick if you aren't careful. The fact you were sleeping outside of Tock Springs and missed this performance of Doc...let's just say I am sad that happened and hope life is better for you now, after that low point, lol.
@@chrisnelson3925 That particular anniversary show can be found here on youtube. That trip I made was primarily a road trip/car camping trip. It was a long day that began in SLC, took me though Yellowstone NP and Jackson Hole. By the time I got to the rest area, I was worn completely out. Didn't take long for me to crash out in the back seat. I think I stopped in Rock Springs for gas, and then moved on.
Just complete control of an instrument. Incredible. When I discovered the TS as a young teen it was like...wow. Just all of it.
The greatest trumpet player ever his tone was on another level Love Doc!!!!
Not the make believe bands of Leno and Fallon. Pure class!
So many years ago and such fun.
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....
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
No one else comes close to Doc! His tone is incredible! It’s like his trumpet is singing.
That fast wah wah guitar was tremendous. Love hearing that in songs from that era.
Love it! Awesome!
Grande grande Doc
That was EPIC!!!
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?).
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'......
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 .
Freaking awesome
Johnny you should have had Doc and the Band performed more often. Your guests never had an applause like that.
This was the 17th anniversary show.
What’s this music piece callled
Watch What Happens
Was that last held note a high F alternate fingering?(open)
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.
@@jimellis2864 oh wow thanks! Never heard of pressing the first valve with the left thumb 🤓👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Jeez who was the crackhead doing the live to tape audio mix on this? One thing for sure whoever it was had been sleeping with the bass player!
Very good but Urbie Green played it much better.
That, my friend, is impossible.
Dumb title
I'm sorry,loved tonight show,like many talk shows had famous talented well schooled jazz musicians ( doc,drummer ed shaunessy,etc.) But iv'e NEVER heard doc sound like a good trumpeter,let alone a GREAT ONE! no competent trumpeter plays every solo strictly in the extreme highest register,supposedly to show how high they can play? And to butcher one of the prettiest tunes (watch what happens) by one of the most beloved composers ( michel legrend) is just musical sacrilege! Just shows how many tone deaf fans there are in the world. I'm sure doc was a good section mate,but honestly,as a soloist he was HORRIBLE! SAME HIGH PITCHED,SHOW OFF RUNS THAT ANY 2ND YEAR STUDENT CAN EXECUTE,OVER,AND,OVER,AND OVER,TUNE,AFTER TUNE FOR DECADES! JUST BEING HONEST.
Seriously, get a grip. Do you even play an instrument?
Personally, I would respect your right to your caustic opinion if your musical observations held water-or even hot air with breath support.
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.
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.
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.
This was a band! This was a talk show! Really miss them - great nights back then
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.
Doc is 90 and still doing concerts. Amazing....
IS. He's still around and playing at 93!
I didn't realize how good he was. Some of his performances were just classic. And they were just for the show.
The Tonight Show on the air today is in name only. No Comparison.
And Trump is president in name only. They both are a stretch.
You can watch the old shows on PlutoTV. 24x7 Brings back a lot of memories
THIS is what class was, is and will never again be.....
Christopher Escott along with frank sinatra, dean martin, Sammy Davis...
Christopher Escott precisely
Doc, Johnny and Ed. The world just isn't the same without them.
We at least still have Doc.
You got it I think it's funny how they play in do johnny carson
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.
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.
Incredible musicians...... every last one of them!
Severinsen's top range was remarkable! A superlative musician surrounded by the elite players of the time.
High and still soooo sweet sounding
The greatest for sure!!!. TV.... lights camera action!!! Doc and the tonight show orchestra always on!!!!!! Nothing compares today!!!
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.
Eb de concierto es F en Bb
I was wondering who noticed! Peak of preforming 🎺 in that day
Darn I miss this era and band!
Really, everything Maynard could do but in tune and clean.
and with a good sound
Disagree. Great technique but Doc never got a truly big sound. Maynard always did. In that respect?
No comparison.
@@jorgecallico9177 You apparently never had the pleasure of hearing Doc and Maynard in person.
The word you're looking for is "precise." Doc was incredibly accurate.
Doc is good but didn't have the range and tone Maynard had
last note he put his left thumb on the first valve so he could conduct with his right hand!
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
Never realized how much talent this man possesses until I heard this - would pay top dollar to hear him live.
I have seen him live and let me tell you, it was all worth it.
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!
All I can say is WOW! Nothing like Doc, Tommy and the band, Johnny, and Ed. They live in my heart forever.
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: ua-cam.com/video/7jIoN9xTB0E/v-deo.html
Such great playing! And dig that tux shirt that he has on
That Rhapsody in blue at the end
Still the Best!!!!!
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.
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.
10? Even s three year old can count better: Four Trumpets + Three Trombones + Five Saxophones + Guitar + Bass + Piano + Drums + Doc. That's SEVENTEEN.
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.
Maynard was fantastic but Doc interpretation of songs for me was better
Watch at the end...Johnny loved Doc and the band as much as anyone did. Doc, in a class of his own imo.
No doubt
PBS recently has a segment on his life til now. Very interesting! What an incredible man.
If your not a brass player it may not occur to you how loud he is playing. That's 120db or close to it.
They're smoking it!
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...
My bad. maybe not Doc at all. Persuasive / Provocative percussion - Terry Snyder / Enoch Light. Sounds pretty cheezy now (LOL)....
One of those days - Doc did play on at least some of these: www.discogs.com/Various-Persuasive-Percussion-1966/release/3389521
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.
Heaven, must be
Like this! What a band of Pros! And Doc, well , there it is!
Wow ! I never heard the Doc showcased like that,
.
Imagine doing that. Cameras in your face. Lights blinding you. Johnny Carson just feet away. A studio audience. And millions watching on TV.
Timeless!
Doc was and still is a BEAST!
That's how it's done!!!!
0Now that was the tonight show Doc killed it every night
PBS had a special on Doc recently.Hes still teaching and touring.
I love that this video fell into my feed. I grew up on classic Carson and Doc and the band were amazing.
Doc is great! He just does it every time! Wow!
WOW 👌
And the INCOMPARABLE Johnny Smith on guitar !!!!
After The Lawrence Welk Show went off the air, The Tonight Show Band was the last big band that performed regularly on television left.
Thanks. Gotta love it!
"Listen What Happens..." So dope!
@j.j.cagney I'd like to know what you think is good music. But I believe you're just a bored troll.
It's great we really don't have to miss these guys anymore. Between UA-cam, Antennae TV and now Johnnies own dedicated channel on Pluto TV you can can all the Johnny you want.
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.
Doc was actually on the Tonight Show before Johnny Carson arrived.
This is when America was GREAT, under the present morons we are under stress and uncertainity, these morons in this white house should all be found guilty of treason.
If anyone assumes disco was just a passing fad or a total musical abomination, know that it infiltrated pretty much every genre to some degree for a while in the mid to late seventies.
The Doc!
Lawrence Welk would've loved having Doc in his Orchestra.
How can anyone not like this??
Loved Doc's playing.. AND his hair!! both are great!!
listen to Al Hirt. Doc was technically perfect. Als talent made him better.
Haha! One handed high "F" while he cuts the band off! Yep!!
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
Mister Mellow would fit that catagory.
You can't imagine the difficulty
He is the one and only that is awesome.
He makes it look easy.
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.
Tommy didn't do clinics he went to clinics
@@hankkingsley2976 lol that's another video.
That’s called earning his money.
Tune from Michel LeGrand!
Greatest trumpeter? Al Hirt was as good.
The Best!
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.
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..
Something else happened, and yes I blow, or used to. Also, I just saw Arturo (Sandoval) last month in Minneapolis back to back for three sets and got to meet him...Legend status with Maynard and Doc.
Ok, it appears the piece was supposed to go longer but Doc ended it early. About 30 seconds from the end and just before he is ready to keep playing he stops and acts like there is something wrong with his lip. His lower lip almost looked swollen on the side. He looks right takes about a 5 - 6 beat break from playing, and gets back in to what feels is an alternative ending to the piece using his THUMB to keep the 1ST VALVE DEPRESSED on an INDEX finger 1st valve F to bring the orchestra to an alternative ending. Not that pulling off a thumb F isn't impressive, but I am curious if he did that often to close the band or was it something he was prepared and proficient in case of an emergency when the band had to quickly end?
I miss this America so much.
Doesn't get much better than that!
The greatest!!!
Can i post in my channel please?
Thank you!
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Dang he just soars
The one and only!
My hero. Amen🙏