Leading NBC’s “The Tonight Show” orchestra for 25 years, trumpeter Doc Severinsen became a pop culture icon.

“I thank my lucky stars every single day for the years I was there,” Severinsen tells The Daily News. “It enabled me to go out and have recognition and do a lot of things, as a solo performer, that I wanted to do. People would trust me, because they’d think, ‘Well, if he’s on Johnny’s show, he must be OK.'”
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If it hadn’t been for a fateful encounter five years ago, two extraordinary jazz virtuosos, guitarist Gil Gutiérrez and trumpeter Doc Severinsen, wouldn’t be performing together at Carnegie Hall on January 28. In fact, they wouldn’t be making music together at all. As anyone knows who has heard these artists riff off each other, that would be a loss to the world.
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