Barry Galbraith


Joseph Barry Galbraith was an American jazz guitarist.
Galbraith moved to New York City from McDonald, Pennsylvania, in the early 1940s and found work playing with Babe Russin, Art Tatum, Red Norvo, Hal McIntyre, and Teddy Powell. He played with Claude Thornhill in 1941–1942 and again in 1946–1949 after serving in the Army. He did a tour with Stan Kenton in 1953.
Galbraith did extensive work as a studio musician for NBC and CBS in the 1950s and 1960s; among those he played with were Miles Davis, Michel Legrand, Tal Farlow, Coleman Hawkins, George Barnes, John Lewis, Hal McKusick, Oscar Peterson, Max Roach, George Russell, John Carisi, Urbie Green, and Tony Scott. He also accompanied the singers Anita O'Day, Chris Connor, Billie Holiday, Helen Merrill, Sarah Vaughan and Dinah Washington on record. He was a mentor to Ralph Patt.
In 1961, he appeared in the film After Hours. In 1963-1964 he played on Gil Evans's album The Individualism of Gil Evans, and in 1965 he appeared on Stan Getz and Eddie Sauter's soundtrack to the 1965 film Mickey One. From 1970 to 1975 he taught at CUNY and published a guitar method book in 1982. From 1976–77 Galbraith taught guitar at New England Conservatory in Boston.
He died from cancer in Bennington at the age of 63.

Discography

As leader

  • The Rhythm Section
  • Rhythm + 1
  • ''Guitar and the Wind''

    As sideman

With Chris Connor
  • Chris Connor
  • Chris Connor Sings the George Gershwin Almanac of Song
  • Sings Ballads of the Sad Cafe
  • A Portrait of Chris
With Bobby Darin
  • That's All
With Don Elliott
  • Don Elliot Sings
  • Mellophone
  • The Voices of Don Elliott
  • The Mello Sound
  • Love Is a Necessary Evil
With Urbie Green
  • The Persuasive Trombone of Urbie Green
  • The Persuasive Trombone of Urbie Green Vol. 2
  • Urbie Green and His 6-Tet
  • Twenty-One Trombones
With Coleman Hawkins
  • The Hawk in Paris
  • The Hawk in Hi Fi
  • The Hawk Flies High
  • Desafinado
With Milt Jackson
  • Ballads & Blues
  • The Ballad Artistry of Milt Jackson
  • Jazz 'n' Samba
With Johnny Mathis
  • Johnny Mathis
With Hal McKusick
  • East Coast Jazz Series No. 8
  • In a Twentieth-Century Drawing Room
  • Jazz at the Academy
  • The Jazz Workshop
  • Cross Section-Saxes
  • Hal Mckusick Plays/Betty St. Claire Sings
With Carmen McRae
  • Birds of a Feather
  • Mad About the Man, Carmen McRae Sings Noel Coward
  • Second to None
With Helen Merrill
  • Helen Merrill
  • Helen Merrill with Strings
  • Dream of You
  • You've Got a Date with the Blues
  • The Nearness of You
With George Russell
  • The Jazz Workshop
  • New York, N.Y.
  • Jazz in the Space Age
With Creed Taylor
  • Shock Music in Hi-Fi
  • Lonelyville: The Nervous Beat
  • The Best of the Barrack Ballads
With others