Always on the lookout for more Barry Galbraith

[sgcim]

Interestingly enough, the record Talbert and Galbraith made with McGovern caused such a stir in NY, that Gil Evans came out with a little known album with Helen Merrill that also used Galbraith on guitar. called "Dream of You", immediately after the Talbert record.
Evans' writing hasn't aged as well as Talbert's and the Merrill/Evans album sounds corny IMHO when compared directly to the Talbert album I posted.
I think it's the only album that Galbraith played on that Evans did the arranging on, and he doesn't write anything worth listening to with Galbraith on it, or even let him have a solo.
Contrary to what many people think about "Into the Hot", which featured Galbraith a great deal, Evans had nothing to do with the album, even though there's a picture of him on the album. According to one of the participants, "Evans' only role was go out and get the sandwiches at lunchtime.."

[jmgalich]

The Talbert/McGovern recording is available from Fresh Sounds as part of its "The Best Voices Time Forgot" series for €10.96, or about US$12.50 at current exchange rates:

Marcy Lutes & Patty McGovern - Debut + Wednesday's Child (2 LP on 1 CD) - Blue Sounds

McGovern is from St. Paul, Minn., and ended up marrying Leigh Kamman who was the city's main jazz DJ for decades. I don't know if she's still around, but she hasn't performed live (to the best of my knowledge) since I moved to the Twin Cities in late 2000.

John Galich

[sgcim]

The Talbert/McGovern recording is available from Fresh Sounds as part of its "The Best Voices Time Forgot" series for €10.96, or about US$12.50 at current exchange rates:

Marcy Lutes & Patty McGovern - Debut + Wednesday's Child (2 LP on 1 CD) - Blue Sounds

McGovern is from St. Paul, Minn., and ended up marrying Leigh Kamman who was the city's main jazz DJ for decades. I don't know if she's still around, but she hasn't performed live (to the best of my knowledge) since I moved to the Twin Cities in late 2000.

John Galich

Talbert was from Minnesota, too, but he never knew McGovern when they lived there. They met each other in NYC when McGovern was singing in some vocal group which had some connection to Mel Torme.
Thanks for the link, buddy!

[sgcim]

The Talbert/McGovern recording is available from Fresh Sounds as part of its "The Best Voices Time Forgot" series for €10.96, or about US$12.50 at current exchange rates:

Marcy Lutes & Patty McGovern - Debut + Wednesday's Child (2 LP on 1 CD) - Blue Sounds

McGovern is from St. Paul, Minn., and ended up marrying Leigh Kamman who was the city's main jazz DJ for decades. I don't know if she's still around, but she hasn't performed live (to the best of my knowledge) since I moved to the Twin Cities in late 2000.

John Galich

I finished the book on Talbert and when I looked at his discography, I was surprised to see that he was credited for doing the arrangements on the four songs that Paul Quinichette played tenor sax on the Johnny Smith compilation of "Moonlight In Vermont". It turned out that the date was separate from the Moonlight in Vermont album, and Talbert had just finished writing a four minute long concert piece that featured Johnny Smith called "The Wharf", and wanted to work with him again, so he arranged the date with Qunichette, that they wound up amalgamating into the Moonlight in Vt.
Here's Cherokee from that recording date:

I don't think that JS could come up with a chart like that. He also did the striking arr. of Yesterdays, which was also not typical Smith back then:

[PMB]

"Love Is For The Very Young", or Theme From "The Bad and the Beautiful", arranged and recorded by the genius of Barry Galbraith in 1958 for his great... | By Katia | Facebook

That's my transcription with one or two tweaks and I posted it here over 10 years ago. The FB post you mentioned was a rendition by the excellent French guitarist now working in NY, Felix Lemerle.

Here's the post (hopefully it's set to public rather than private). Nice to see that he gave me credit:

https://www.facebook.com/felixlemerl...6769947177010/