Never Too Late: The Doc Severinsen Story

Matt Roush says...

We remember Doc as Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show bandleader, a cool cat with a mean horn and a loud wardrobe. Nearly 30 years later, this lively American Masters profile catches up with the tireless trumpeter, still blasting away in his nineties. “He’s a marvel of a human being,” says fellow trumpet master Chris Botti, and Never Too Late is living proof. We learn Doc’s colorful history while watching him work out at the gym (three times a week), conduct a master class for a student band and provide one-on-one encouragement to a blind novice. His devotion to his instrument cost him three marriages, but his passion for music keeps those high notes soaring.

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