John Blane (owner of Blane Music Preparation) is a professional bass trombonist/tubist, musical talent broker, and computer music engraver.

In addition to his early years as an educator, Blane has been most active in show and big band work over the past 20 years in the Chicago area.

His performance credentials reads like a Who's Who list in the entertainment industry; from the Ringling Bros. Circus to show orchestras for artists such as Johnny Mathis, Manhattan Transfer, Liberace, Tony Bennett, Wayne Newton, Lou Rawls, Gladys Knight, Burt Bacharach, Dizzy Gillespie, Mel Torme, Bob Hope, Sammy Davis, Jr., Aretha Franklin, Natalie Cole, and many more. He also played in the Chicago runs of Miss Saigon, Show Boat, Beauty and the Beast ,The King and I, and Ragtime.

He is also very active in the recording of T.V. and radio commercials including spots for United Airlines, Miller Brewing Co., State Farm Insurance, Samsonite, McDonalds, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Ameritech, WBBM-TV News, among many others.

Currently, the bulk of his energies are spent doing computer-aided music preparation. Clients include Hal Leonard Publishing Corp., Warner Bros. Publications, Inc., Disney, Kendor Music, Lee Greenwood, Music Theatre International, and G. Schirmer, Inc. among others. Some of his publishing work includes the music of Frank Mantooth, Bob Mintzer, Bill Holman, Louis Bellson, and Joe Henderson, as well as Andrew Lloyd Webber, Alfred Reed, Alan Menken, Michael Kamen, and John Williams.