Paul Tanner

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Paul OW Tanner (born October 15, 1917 in Skunk Hollow , Kentucky , † February 5, 2013 in Carlsbad , California ) was an American swing jazz trombonist, jazz writer and inventor.

Career

Tanner became known as the trombonist of the Glenn Miller Orchestra. From 1942 he played in Miller's Army Air Force Band and later in the successor band under Tex Beneke . After the end of the big band era, he became a studio musician in Hollywood at ABC , where he worked a lot with Henry Mancini (a former colleague from Tex Benekes' band). After completing his studies, he was a music professor at UCLA , where he gave jazz courses. He also wrote several books on jazz, among others. a. a school textbook and textbooks for trombone.

Together with Bob Whitsell (inventor and actor) he invented the electro-theremin (also called tannerin ) in the late 1950s, which was supposed to imitate the sound of the theremin . For example, it was used by the Beach Boys in songs like " Good Vibrations ". Tanner used it for several TV and feature film soundtracks and for the record "Music from Outer Space" (Omega).

literature

  • Tanner, David Megill, Maurice Gerow "Jazz", McGraw Hill College Division, 8th edition 1996, ISBN 0697288072 (with CD)
  • Tanner, Megill “Jazz issues-a critical history”, William C. Brown 1994, ISBN 0697125718
  • Tanner, Ployhar "Practical hints on playing trombone" 1985
  • Tanner "Sideman- stories about the band" 2000
  • Tanner "Every Night was New Years Eve - On the Road with Glenn Miller", Cosmo Space 1992, ISBN 4947544082 (about the time in Glenn Miller)
  • Tanner "Conversation with a musician"

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul Tanner Dies at 95; Last Surviving Member of Famed Glenn Miller Band ( Memento of the original from February 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / carlsbad.patch.com
personal data
SURNAME Tanner, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tanner, Paul OW
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz trombonist, jazz writer, and inventor
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Skunk Hollow , Kentucky
DATE OF DEATH 5th February 2013
Place of death Carlsbad , California