MahlerBrass

Thanks for your commitment to "the game," and for your love for the music year after year, if only you knew how many lives you changed just by doing what you do best. You're an inspiration to us all, all the best!

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san antonio horn

Doc, When I was in high school, one of the other trumpet players grandmother was friends with your mom...I remember you would come and accompany the band from Kennewick, Washington at the Arlington, Oregon Jazz Festival...Thankyou always Doc....Thankyou. Thankyou for all you've done for trumpet! Brandon.

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Corsair

Mr. Severinen,

Thank you for the wonderful music you have inspired so many of us to hope to try to aspire to reach. My wife and I saw you play with the Minnesota Orchestra some years ago, and it will never leave my thoughts. Seeing you play was like taking a breath of fresh air. Simply a sound from Heaven.

Thank You, and God Bless
Kurt Johnson

upoils

Doc,
Thank you so much for being my inspiration in an otherwise mispent youth. I spent so many hours playing your LPs in the early 1970s that several of them wore out and had to be replaced. I recently listened to several hours of the LPs still in my collection -- from the early Command LPs (The Big Band's Back In Town, etc), to the 70s albums like Doc Severinsen's Closet, Brass Roots, and the Henry Mancini duo albums Brass on Ivory, to the 1980s Tonight Show Band LP. It is time to bring these treasures back out on CDs!!! I will be playing several of your wonderful recordings for trumpet students in Corvallis, Oregon, at a Brass Camp next week.

I also still recall with awe the night I heard you live at the Circle Star Theater in the SF Bay Area -- it was a theater in the round with a rotating stage and I was in the 3rd row.... When Snooky Young hit the high Eb and you followed with a sustained Eb above double high C -- with one hand -- at the end of "A Song For You", I just about wet my pants!!! Still remembering those sounds and emotions nearly 34 years later!

Enjoy your hard-earned retirement with the crowning achievement being your inspiration of generations of trumpet players all over the world!

-Ken

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11thchair

Hey Doc - enjoy the rest of your life! Will miss your concerts. Actually Louis Armstrong was my inspiration to play trumpet ('61). But I had visions of playing like you when I got my Eterna in '65. Just visions. The trumpet has been a big part of my life - on the fun side. And your playing and interactions with kids along the way has been part of the process for many.

Thanks
One of Gerry's kids

Mark (11thchair)

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Skip

Doc,

From one Dr. to another: when I started taking lessons on trumpet, a meer Le Blanc Paris, I listened to, and wore out the grooves on the LP's of my two favorite trumpet players, you & Rafael.

The virtuosity of you two was, & still remains, perfection to me.

I've been able to re-acquire many of your LP's (yes, real records) in the last several years:

Night Journey, Swinging & Singing, High, Wide, & Wonderful, Sextet Live 67, The New Sound of Today's Big Band, London Sessions, Tempestuous Trumpet, Xebron, Strings, Doc, & Facets.

Thanks for the music & inspiration. Best of luck in your "retirement" and with your horses. Although everything is very important, one of my instructors in vet school always said, " no feet, no legs, no horse" - keep a close watch on their feet & legs. If you ever have a question or need a referral, please don't hesitate to shoot me an E-mail, or give a call. All the best.

Skip Pease, D.V.M.
Hilo, HI 96720