NEW YORK (AP) — Music critic George T. Simon, the original Glenn Miller Band drummer who swapped his sticks for a pen and eventually earned a Grammy for his acclaimed liner notes, died Tuesday of pneumonia following a battle with Parkinson's disease. He was 88.
In 1937 Simon sat in with the fledgling Glenn Miller Band. But he opted for writing over drumming, and became editor-in-chief of Metronome magazine in 1939.
As a writer, Simon worked for the New York Post and the now-defunct New York Herald-Tribune.