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Originally Posted by nyc chaz
Although Most's playing is great on the other albums included in the set, the arrangements by Bob Dorough and Teddy Charles aren't as good as the ones by Woellmer.
Jimmy Raney has a good solo on one tune on the record he's on, and Davey Schildkraut has some nice solos on one of the other records.
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07-27-2024 08:18 PM
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Into The Hot was mentioned upthread; I had that in my once huge cassette collection. But Barry Galbraith starred on a recording Gil Evans very much played on for Impulse!: Out of The Cool. The opening cut, La Nevada gives him a lot of room, comping and a killer solo.
I don’t remember all the personnel aside from Evans on piano, and Galbraith. I know it’s Johnny Coles on trumpet and Jimmy Knepper on trombone.
Killer diller track:
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Originally Posted by L50EF15
Last edited by sgcim; 07-28-2024 at 08:59 PM.
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Sam Most did this one with Tal Farlow.
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Originally Posted by achase4u
Carisi blew a gasket! He said that when you compose music, nothing influences you to write it. You sit there in a room with a blank piece of paper and work for hours until you've come up with a complete musical statement that makes complete musical sense.
He was so mad at my friend for asking such a "stupid question", that he did not say one word to him for the entire trip going up there or the entire trip coming back!
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Originally Posted by sgcim
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Originally Posted by sgcim
I discovered Barry Galbraith in the 1960 Gibson catalog (when I was in high school). The only records I could find on which he played were Music Minus One backing tracks, and I couldn’t justify spending my hard earned money on that when there was so much music I wanted to hear and learn. But I bugged the local record store (Russ Miller Records in Atlantic City) so much that I was eventually able to get his playing on albums by Chris Connor, Milt Jackson, Steve Allen (!), Tony Bennett and Tal Farlow by the time I went to college. Good record shops had a huge catalog of all commercial recordings with credits, and you could find all credited appearances if you took the time to search that tome.
I’m fortunate enough to be solidly in the geezer brigade but still able to remember what I have and where it is. I remember buying Out of the Cool after reading a review in Downbeat. When I saw this thread, I went to my record collection and pulled it out. It’s still great!
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I miss cats like neatomic when I go back and read old threads like this. I guess we'll never know what happened to him.
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Originally Posted by sgcim
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Originally Posted by wintermoon
Yeah, going back and reading neatomic's posts always astounds me at his knowledge of jazz guitar. I'm sure he was probably hip to Galbraith's incredible part on the Most album. He might have even been hip to the arranger, RW, on the album, although I've only known one sax player that used to do a duo gig with him that was hip to him, and he's long gone, just like the trumpet player who booked him on the gig.
Searches have come up with him playing trumpet with the band Gil Evans used to write for, the Claude Thornhill Orchestra, so maybe he got some of his arranging skills from Gil.Some old DB articles have him playing and arranging for Bobby Scott's group in the 50s.
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Originally Posted by nevershouldhavesoldit
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Originally Posted by sgcim
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Originally Posted by nevershouldhavesoldit
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Originally Posted by wintermoon
I don't know where she got the transcription, but it's perfect. She's playing it in Ab, but she's got the low E string tuned down to Eb.
I haven't heard Barry's version in a long time, but I think he played it either the same way, or he played it in G and tuned the E string to D.
I play it in standard tuning in Ab, because my little brain can't deal with alt. tunings.
Kind of strange that she didn't mention Raksin at all! When he played it for Andre Previn on the piano for the first time, Previn said "WTF is that?"
He never heard anything like that, and thought it just sounded like a mess (maybe also because of DR's piano playing)!
Sondheim called it the greatest film theme ever written, and DR used it in another film that was a kind of a sequel to BATB, but he did a wild contrapuntal minor key version of it that flipped me out when I first heard it.
He could've gone on being the top film composer in Hollywood, but he 'named names' in the McCarthy Hearings, and all he ever got were B movies after that.
One time I was playing a gig at the Waldorf in NYC, and I was playing it on the beautiful Steinway that they had before the gig began, and the great sax player/ arr. Lenny Sinisgalli told me I was playing an F instead of an E in the inner voice on the second chord! Talk about genius ears!
Thanks for posting that, G!
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Originally Posted by sgcim
I searched high and low for a chart for a long time and finally ran into a bass player that knew a piano player that had written it out and got it from him. then I put it aside and never even tried it! but it's around here somewhere buried in some pile of music, I'm the worst when it comes to organizing charts.
iirc someone here posted a chart at some point, I guess an advanced search might turn it up.
another guy on the Galbraith FB page posted his rendition once and it was spot on but I'm not on social media so 95% of the time when I click on Barry's page I can't view anything.
as for the the chick, when I hear a girl playing great music like that I instantly fall in love, especially if she looks good on top of it.
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