For those of you who are interested, Amazon is now selling this entire album (Rhapsody for Now!) on CD and it sounds great!
Also, I have a rare live recording of Doc doing this song (A Song for You) in Las Vegas in 1973. He nails the Eb not once, but twice (two separate shows recorded). Message me if you are a true Doc fan and would like a copy.
This song was on an 8-Track tape compilation in the mid 1970's that came with the purchase of a Cadillac or Oldsmobile. I listened to this song in the car with my grandfather hundreds of times and never got tired of it. Awesome performance by one of the all-time greats!!
Wow What a player...Doc endorsed a system called the CADET SYSTEM for practicing and playing I wonder where I can find that....It is the only system that Doc endorsed!
trouble is- a lot of Doc's best work is lost to time; or owned by Carson collections. Unlike Maynard, who recorded more prolifically, the lion's share of Doc's work was on television; much of it on the, 'lost,' tonight show tapes of the 60's. Doc devoted a lot more time to the show than to making records in the 60's-70's; although all of the records were fantastic!
No one has ever recorded anything that touches this. Command of the horn, musicianship, power, range, flexibility, the total package. Doc at his most awesome!
I'm only a guitar player, so I don't know about Eb above double C, but I know what I hear. Just beautiful and amazing chops. I don't think Maynard could hit that last note.
@solemoose Think of playing a double C like a guy who weighs 180 bench pressing 400 pounds...Doc Severinsen could do that with one arm while smoking a cigarette...pure power...
At age fourteen I could venture up to a good double G and someone said to buy a Doc Serverinsen album. Rhapsody for Now was my first—and I was by hooked. I eventually played professionally, but not jazz. At age 15 my teacher had me adjust my embrasure and my solid high register never returned; so I became a classical trumpeter. Did 3 yrs at WDW, moved to Europe and played in a orchestras until arthritis finally curtailed me. I always loved Doc's versatility & his performance Lovelock's Concerto.
@ThatTumpetGuy He would actually do this tune live in concert. There's a video floating around of a concert he did for Conn dealers in the 80's - a piece of which I've got on the sampler video - he does a really involved version of Malaguena and he hits a D over dub C as part of the final cadenza. Took real stones to be able to go to the top of his range live like that. I think his range didn't peak until sometime in his 50's.
@ThatTumpetGuy I think he had more than a G in him since pretty early on in his pro career but the range in the vicinity of dub C and above didn't seem to get solid until later. On the Trumpets & Crumpets & Things album, on the cut Up, Up and Away, he just barely squeezes up to a double C on the very last note, starts out way flat, don't think he actually quite got it up to center of pitch. You've probably heard him do I Can't Get Started where he knocks the crap out an Ab.
@trumpetvids I've got a '74 recording with a cheap cassette recorder of Doc doing A Song for You live at Eastern KY U. Snooky on lead, Ed. S on drums and Doc's daughter fronting with "Laugh In" style outfits. Doc nails the Eb. It's boomy but you can hear every note Doc hits. I've got the whole concert including Crimson King. I can't find any other live versions. Do enough people want to hear it to make it worth digitizing. I'm afraid to break the tape!
@ThatTumpetGuy Nothing Doc does would surprise me, the only surprise i could have is if someone uploaded his 1965 High - Wide & Wonderful Lp where he plays 2 tumpets at the same time on every track. Am really surprised i can't find but 1 tune from that LP.
This is absolutely brilliant. I've owned about 25 Doc albums and he never plays a note that isn't perfectly placed and in context of the song. He doesn't do anything on the horn without a musical purpose. He is the master...I don't think anyone compares.
You can listen to them all, but you will not hear a finer, cleaner, more dramatic performance then this one, by this supremely gifted artist. Perhaps Doc is, when its all said and done, the finest in the history of the instrument.
Doc is the classiest trumpet player ever. I am mesmerized as he plays this piece with flawless virtuosity and then ends it on an E flat above double C. Thank you for the post trumpetvids. This one is in my favorites.
Incredible! The way he worked up, slowly, dramatically, to that stratospheric last high note shows what a great virtuoso trumpeter AND what a showman Doc really was. I'm still, after all these years, stuck in the habit of playing the last minute of the tune over & over & over, in total awe of "Little Doc"!!!!
I don't think you're alone on that one!... Is there a trumpet player alive who doesn't listen to the ending over and over and over! I've been doing that for 30 years now! And I"m still not tired of it.
@jazznhorns Me too, neither! This version of "A Song For You", for me, shows off Doc's big, beautiful & brassy tone - plus his TOTAL command of the horn - better than any other piece which he's recorded. I really am addicted to listening to it, so I'm very grateful to "trumpetvids" for this post. It's like a chocolate-filled Twinkie for a sugar addict!!!
This was my very first Doc Severinsen album, and I can still remember the excitement that day when I played it for the very first time. Some things you just don't forget.
Does anyone have a transcription of this?
tptmaster90 3 days ago
Beautiful! Just Beautiful!
Chenshaio 4 days ago
This is superb.
For those of you who are interested, Amazon is now selling this entire album (Rhapsody for Now!) on CD and it sounds great!
Also, I have a rare live recording of Doc doing this song (A Song for You) in Las Vegas in 1973. He nails the Eb not once, but twice (two separate shows recorded). Message me if you are a true Doc fan and would like a copy.
868hbl5 1 week ago in playlist TROMPETE
This song was on an 8-Track tape compilation in the mid 1970's that came with the purchase of a Cadillac or Oldsmobile. I listened to this song in the car with my grandfather hundreds of times and never got tired of it. Awesome performance by one of the all-time greats!!
squashman56 1 month ago
Wow What a player...Doc endorsed a system called the CADET SYSTEM for practicing and playing I wonder where I can find that....It is the only system that Doc endorsed!
Great playing!!!
brjrentals 2 months ago
perhaps the best example of trumpet playing ever recorded
7fernmann 2 months ago
trouble is- a lot of Doc's best work is lost to time; or owned by Carson collections. Unlike Maynard, who recorded more prolifically, the lion's share of Doc's work was on television; much of it on the, 'lost,' tonight show tapes of the 60's. Doc devoted a lot more time to the show than to making records in the 60's-70's; although all of the records were fantastic!
brooksvilleguy 2 months ago
Can you upload "You've Got A Friend" from the same album?
snap07801 2 months ago
He's not a player.
He's not a magician.
He's Chuck Norris.
TheSuperHeros2 3 months ago
@TheSuperHeros2 No, Doc is a much better actor than Chuck Norris.
:-)
trumpetvids 2 months ago 6
he's not a player, he is a magician
Vespabbestia 4 months ago
Can't wait for my wife to wake up and go to work so I can practice. Wow!
xjb0906 5 months ago
No one has ever recorded anything that touches this. Command of the horn, musicianship, power, range, flexibility, the total package. Doc at his most awesome!
WPSymphony 8 months ago
what a video! (well, recording, i guess) amazing playing! such versatility!
tysheetstrumpet 9 months ago
I'm only a guitar player, so I don't know about Eb above double C, but I know what I hear. Just beautiful and amazing chops. I don't think Maynard could hit that last note.
solemoose 11 months ago
@solemoose Think of playing a double C like a guy who weighs 180 bench pressing 400 pounds...Doc Severinsen could do that with one arm while smoking a cigarette...pure power...
betaomega04 7 months ago
Oh man oh man a Leon Russell song by Doc!
TrishBell1 11 months ago
This is a very special recording, thank you for sharing it. What an incredible sound :)
Jamestrumpet 1 year ago
GENIUS!!!!
schuerzentraeger 1 year ago
Can you upload "You've Got A Friend" from the same album?
snap07801 1 year ago
At age fourteen I could venture up to a good double G and someone said to buy a Doc Serverinsen album. Rhapsody for Now was my first—and I was by hooked. I eventually played professionally, but not jazz. At age 15 my teacher had me adjust my embrasure and my solid high register never returned; so I became a classical trumpeter. Did 3 yrs at WDW, moved to Europe and played in a orchestras until arthritis finally curtailed me. I always loved Doc's versatility & his performance Lovelock's Concerto.
KunstStation 1 year ago
good lord! i didnt even know Doc could play an Eb above Double C!!! AMAZING! :DDD
ThatTumpetGuy 1 year ago
@ThatTumpetGuy He would actually do this tune live in concert. There's a video floating around of a concert he did for Conn dealers in the 80's - a piece of which I've got on the sampler video - he does a really involved version of Malaguena and he hits a D over dub C as part of the final cadenza. Took real stones to be able to go to the top of his range live like that. I think his range didn't peak until sometime in his 50's.
trumpetvids 1 year ago
@trumpetvids yeah i get that, theres another video on here that was taken in the early 60s he sounded like he could barely get a high G out.
ThatTumpetGuy 1 year ago
@ThatTumpetGuy I think he had more than a G in him since pretty early on in his pro career but the range in the vicinity of dub C and above didn't seem to get solid until later. On the Trumpets & Crumpets & Things album, on the cut Up, Up and Away, he just barely squeezes up to a double C on the very last note, starts out way flat, don't think he actually quite got it up to center of pitch. You've probably heard him do I Can't Get Started where he knocks the crap out an Ab.
trumpetvids 1 year ago
@trumpetvids haha yeah ive heard that. i guess it was the way that video was recorded that the G didnt sound very substantial.
ThatTumpetGuy 1 year ago
@trumpetvids I've got a '74 recording with a cheap cassette recorder of Doc doing A Song for You live at Eastern KY U. Snooky on lead, Ed. S on drums and Doc's daughter fronting with "Laugh In" style outfits. Doc nails the Eb. It's boomy but you can hear every note Doc hits. I've got the whole concert including Crimson King. I can't find any other live versions. Do enough people want to hear it to make it worth digitizing. I'm afraid to break the tape!
trmpt8 7 months ago in playlist maynard 2
@ThatTumpetGuy Nothing Doc does would surprise me, the only surprise i could have is if someone uploaded his 1965 High - Wide & Wonderful Lp where he plays 2 tumpets at the same time on every track. Am really surprised i can't find but 1 tune from that LP.
KingOfRock61 1 year ago
Whoa nice.
kdkn92 1 year ago
This is absolutely brilliant. I've owned about 25 Doc albums and he never plays a note that isn't perfectly placed and in context of the song. He doesn't do anything on the horn without a musical purpose. He is the master...I don't think anyone compares.
868hbl5 1 year ago
You can listen to them all, but you will not hear a finer, cleaner, more dramatic performance then this one, by this supremely gifted artist. Perhaps Doc is, when its all said and done, the finest in the history of the instrument.
4stripes41 1 year ago
Amazing Player was/is Doc: the quality of tone is unbelievable.
Deep, deep bow: it gets me straight in the heart.
Thanks Doc!
Bertrompet 1 year ago
Doc is the classiest trumpet player ever. I am mesmerized as he plays this piece with flawless virtuosity and then ends it on an E flat above double C. Thank you for the post trumpetvids. This one is in my favorites.
riteofway 1 year ago 9
Grande Doc .....................
memotromba 1 year ago
That was awesome!
andypimen914 1 year ago 3
Incredible! The way he worked up, slowly, dramatically, to that stratospheric last high note shows what a great virtuoso trumpeter AND what a showman Doc really was. I'm still, after all these years, stuck in the habit of playing the last minute of the tune over & over & over, in total awe of "Little Doc"!!!!
StradMan37 1 year ago
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jazznhorns 1 year ago
@StradMan37
I don't think you're alone on that one!... Is there a trumpet player alive who doesn't listen to the ending over and over and over! I've been doing that for 30 years now! And I"m still not tired of it.
jazznhorns 1 year ago
@jazznhorns Me too, neither! This version of "A Song For You", for me, shows off Doc's big, beautiful & brassy tone - plus his TOTAL command of the horn - better than any other piece which he's recorded. I really am addicted to listening to it, so I'm very grateful to "trumpetvids" for this post. It's like a chocolate-filled Twinkie for a sugar addict!!!
StradMan37 1 year ago
This was my very first Doc Severinsen album, and I can still remember the excitement that day when I played it for the very first time. Some things you just don't forget.
Full4God 1 year ago
que trompetista y que envocadura mis respetos
lorenzo4410 1 year ago