Doc Severinsen (Tonight Show Bandleader) in several from the 1970s

 

Huge discography, of course.  People of North American would remember him well from his appearances on Carson's Tonight Show where he was the longstanding bandleader.  Note that he made quite a few unreleased LPs with college bands and high school bands.

Carl Hilding "Doc" Severinsen (born July 7, 1927 in Arlington, Oregon, USA) is an American pop and jazz trumpeter.

In 1949, Severinsen landed a job as a studio musician for NBC, where he accompanied Steve Allen, Eddie Fisher, Dinah Shore, and Kate Smith. The leader of The Tonight Show Band, Skitch Henderson, asked him to be first-chair trumpeter in 1962, and five years later Severinsen was leading the band. Under Severinsen's direction, The Tonight Show Band became a well-known big band in America. Severinsen became one of the most popular bandleaders, appearing almost every night on television. He led the band during commercials and while guests were introduced.

During the early 1960s, Severinsen began recording big band albums, then moved toward instrumental pop music by the end of the decade. In the 1970s he recorded jazz funk, then disco, finding hits with "Night Journey" and "I Wanna Be With You". He released an album with the jazz fusion group Xebron in 1985. During the next year, he recorded The Tonight Show Band with Doc Severinsen which won the Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Performance. After Carson retired in 1992, he toured with some of the band's members, including Conte Candoli, Snooky Young, Bill Perkins, Ernie Watts, Ross Tompkins, and Ed Shaughnessy.

We have here the most interesting albums selected from the 1970s, that is, those lacking standards and the big band sound, plus more into fusion / funky stuff.

From the 1971 work Brass Roots, Psalm 150 is not quite at the highest level of composition like Don Sebesky's Psalm from Giant Box, posted back here as you might recall, but it's still well worth hearing:

The collaboration with H. Mancini Called Brass on Ivory (1972) features the really really underrated Soldier in the Rain composition by the latter which I've always dearly loved, more than Love Story for sure:

An all instrumental track called Now and Then really grew on me, from Night Journey (1976), while Brand New Thing (1977) is quite similar in sound so I didn't extract a sample from that one.

Captain Daylight, from the much smoother and more polished but nonetheless interesting Xebron album from 1985:

That composition is by guitarist Tom Rizzo, databased here.