Conversations with a Musician (Book)

Conversations with a Musician, Glenn Miller Trombonist Speaks…  by Dr. Paul Tanner

Glenn Miller found me in what was called a “strip join”. The entertainment was the fact that young ladies(?) disrobed for the delight of the customers. Glenn took me away from all that! He had an orchestra previously but was forced to disband. Now he was starting over again, this time he made it. I am privileged to be able to narrate the amusing and unusual happenings that were bound to take place in an organization like that one.

 Dr. Paul O.W. Tanner played trombone with Glenn Miller through the extent of his civilian orchestra, then Charlie Epivak, Les Brown, Tex Beneke, Henry Mancini, Nelson Riddle, etc.

• First trombone for the American Broadcasting Company in Los Angeles for 16 years.
• Performed in all major movie, television and recording studios in Los Angeles.
• Performed with Eugene Ormandy, Arturo Toscanini, Bruno Walter, Leonard Bernstein, Zubin Mehta, Walter Hendl, Andre Previn, etc.
• Graduated from the University of California and Los Angeles magna cum laude, awarded master and doctorate degrees.
• Taught at UCLA for 23 years in all four music fields offered-performance, theory, musicology, and music education.
• Awarded the title “Distinguished Professor”.
• Composed many published work for trombone at varying levels from complicated double concertos to easy solos for young players.
• Author of many books on trombone methodology.
• Author of the most used textbook on the history of jazz, A STUDY OF JAZZ. The seventh edition is simply titled JAZZ.
• Wrote and composed a most successful educational film for Columbia Broadcasting System on the same subject, DISCOVERING JAZZ.
• Has taught 75,000 students in “The Development of Jazz”.
• Now lecturing internationally on the history of jazz. 

Published 1998

Soft cover