Barry Galbraith, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Barry Galbraith

American guitarist

Date of Birth: 18-Dec-1919

Place of Birth: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Date of Death: 13-Jan-1983

Profession: guitarist, pedagogue, jazz guitarist, jazz musician, music pedagogue

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Joseph Barry Galbraith (December 18, 1919 – January 13, 1983) 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, 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.



Description	American photographer and journalist
Date of birth/death	28 January 1917	23 April 2006
Location of birth/death	Brooklyn	Great Neck
Work period	1930s date QS:P,+1930-00-00T00:00:00Z/8 , 1940s date QS:P,+1940-00-00T00:00:00Z/8
Work location	New York City, Washington, D.C.
Authority control	: Q622278 VIAF: 113043399 ISNI: 0000 0001 1780 1486 LCCN: n82145642 GND: 123340144 BNF: 17060247k WorldCat