Trombonist, author and inventor Paul Tanner, who played with the Glenn Miller band during it's most productive years, and later had a hand in inventing the theramin, the strange instrument that became the most recognizable in Ed Wood movies and the Beach Boys' "Good Vibraions", has died at 95, of pneumonia. From Billboard :
http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/1538502/glenn-miller-trombonist-paul-tanner-dies-at-95
When it came to jazz education, the man, literally, wrote the book that became standard in college courses throughout the country.
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