[HAM] Memorial on Dave Wheeler in today's Columbus Dispatch

[Linda Dachtyl]

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/life/stories/ 
2008/03/08/1AA_WHEELER.ART_ART_03-08-08_D3_1R9IVJL.html?sid=101

DAVE WHEELER 1930-2008
Jazz musician taught at Capital University

Saturday,  March 8, 2008 3:10 AM
BY AARON BECK
The Columbus Dispatch




Dave Wheeler

Columbus jazz musician, arranger and teacher Dave Wheeler -- who  
performed with Vic Damone, Stan Kenton and the Columbus Jazz  
Orchestra -- died yesterday morning. He was 77.

Scott Steelman, a friend and associate of Wheeler's since the late  
'70s, said Wheeler was found to have lung cancer in January 2007.

The largely self-taught clarinetist, saxophonist and pianist -- who  
was born in Coshocton -- began performing and arranging music in  
central Ohio in the early '50s, after a stint in the Air Force.

In time, he founded the Contemporary Music Workshop, essentially a  
"self-contained jazz music school," Steelman said.
Students included professionals such as Rusty Bryant, Roger Hines and  
David Cook (who played in 'N Sync's backing band).

During the late '70s and early '80s, Wheeler taught at Capital  
University in Bexley.

He was inducted into the Columbus Senior Musicians Hall of Fame in 1997.

"He presented things in a way that if you already knew the concept  
you got something out of it and if you knew nothing he made it  
clear," said organist and former Capital student Linda Dachtyl, who  
leads the LDB3 jazz group.

Wheeler is survived by brother Thomas Wheeler, 86, of Coshocton.

A private memorial service will take place in Newark, where Wheeler  
had been living in the Flint Ridge Nursing and Rehabilitation Center.  
Another memorial service will be planned next month in Columbus.  
Information will be available at www.myspace.com/contemporary  
musicworkshop.

abeck at dispatch.com