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- DAVID W. REMINGTON, 80 BEULAH, Mich. - David W. Remington, 80, of Beulah, Mich., died Friday, June 8, 2007, in Traverse City, Mich. Born in Rochester, N.Y. Oct. 10, 1926. David came from a family of professional musicians. The son of Emory (a respected trombone teacher and chairman of the brass department of the Eastman School of Music [ESM]) and Laura (an accomplished accompanist and organist), he studied harp and piano at ESM from the age of five to early adolescence. Groomed from his youth as an orchestral harpist, a career in which his sister, Janet, flourished, he instead fell in love with jazz in the 1930's. Though his piano and harp training was formal, he was a self-taught trombonist with a few pointers gleaned from his father while shaving in the morning. Starting in 1936, the Remington family spent summers in Interlochen, Mich., while Emory taught trombone at the National Music Camp. At age 14, his older brother, Emory Jr., drove David to popular teenage gathering places in nearby Traverse City where David entertained people on piano in ragtime, swing, and traditional jazz styles. In the summer of 1944, he joined the Navy in Traverse City and served in World War II. He graduated from St. Lawrence University in Canton, N.Y. in 1950, then attended Albany Law School. Later in life he earned a master's degree in jazz studies at Eastman School of Music (1981). Playing jazz piano and trombone regularly in nightclubs, David elected to leave law school and go on the road with a band. As a trombonist, he won the Arthur Godfrey Talent Scout Show in 1957. For over 50 years he was a freelance jazz pianist, trombonist, and bandleader in Rockford, Ill. and Chicago, and Rochester and New York. Career highlights include bandleader at Jazz Limited, Caf
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