Paul Tanner

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

Career

Tanner was known as a trombonist with the Glenn Miller Orchestra. With the end of the big band era ( he was still in Miller's Army Air Force Band from 1942 and in the sequel under Tex Beneke ), he worked as a studio musician in Hollywood at ABC, where he worked a lot with Henry Mancini ( a former colleague Tex Beneke from tape ). After an appended studies, he was a music professor at UCLA, where he gave jazz courses. He also wrote several books on jazz, inter alia, a school textbook and textbooks for trump.

He is also the inventor ( and actor ) Bob Whitsell in the late 1950s inventor of the Electro- Theremin (also called Tannerin ), which should mimic the sound of the theremin and used, for example, of the Beach Boys songs like " Good Vibrations " was. Tanner came up with the idea for it when he saw the difficulties in 1958 for the soundtrack of Alfred Hitchcock's " Spellbound " resulted from the use of the theremin. Tanner used it for several TV and movie soundtracks, and for a disc "Music from Outer Space" ( Omega).