Multi Instrumentalist Dan Zeilinger has died.

Dan Zeilinger, a well know Southern California jazz musician and host of Trad Jazz Today, died  on October 31st.  His mother was from the Philippines, and an excellent singer who encouraged music in the home, his father was an audiophile who built a very nice stereo system and amassed a collection of over 2000 LPs. His father was a also a contractor with the Armed Forces which led Dan to spend ages four to nine in Turkey. Eventually the family settled in Southern California which he has called home every since. Born with asthma and double pneumonia a doctor encouraged his parents to provide him with a wind instrument to develop his lungs, so his father got him his first trumpet when he was in seventh grade and he joined the school band. By high school he was playing a number of instruments including tuba, piano, trombone, flute, drums, and French horn and had decided to pursue jazz education as a career. While at Orange Coast College for music he began playing with a number of groups at the school, so many he never completed the program itself. He began to fill in on Dixieland gigs with Dan Barrett among others who had an association with the same jazz program. At a different school he formed a band with Barrett, Howard Alden, Mark Curry, and Ed Slawson to co