Barry Galbraith


Joseph Barry Galbraith was an American jazz guitarist.
Galbraith moved to New York City from Vermont 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 1941–42 and again in 1946–49 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, 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 1963-64 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.

Discography

As sideman

With Cannonball Adderley
With Manny Albam
With George Barnes
With John Benson Brooks
With Clifford Brown
With Ruth Brown
With Jimmy Cleveland
With Al Cohn, Bill Perkins and Richie Kamuca
With Freddy Cole
With Gil Evans
With Art Farmer
With Maynard Ferguson
With Curtis Fuller
With Stan Getz
With Johnny Griffin
With Johnny Hartman
With Coleman Hawkins
With Billie Holiday
With John Lee Hooker
With Milt Jackson
With J. J. Johnson
With Hank Jones
With Stan Kenton
With Steve Kuhn and Toshiko Akiyoshi
With John Lewis
With Mundell Lowe
With Gary McFarland and Clark Terry
With Jimmy McGriff
With Hal McKusick
With Carmen McRae
With Helen Merrill
With Mark Murphy
With Oliver Nelson
With Joe Newman
With Anita O'Day
With Jackie Paris
With Paul Quinichette
With George Russell
With Shirley Scott
With Jimmy Smith
With Rex Stewart and Cootie Williams
With Sonny Stitt
With Gábor Szabó
With Jack Teagarden
With Clark Terry and Chico O'Farrill
With The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra
With Stanley Turrentine
With Dinah Washington
With Cootie Williams
With Kai Winding
With Sheila Jordan