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Joseph Barry Galbraith, born on December 18, 1919 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Moving to New York City in the early 1940s he 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 from 1946–1949 after serving in the Army. In ‘53 he did a tour with Stan Kenton.
Having extensive work as a studio musician for NBC and CBS in the 1950s and 1960s, presented him with the opportunity to work with among others 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 accompanied on the recording of singers Anita O’Day, Chris Connor, Billie Holiday, Helen Merrill, Sarah Vaughan and Dinah Washington. 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.
As an educator he taught for five years from 1970 to 1975 at CUNY (City University of New York) and published a guitar method book in 1982. From 1976–77 Galbraith taught guitar at New England Conservatory in Boston, Massachusetts.
Guitarist and bandleader Barry Galbraith passed away from cancer at the age of 63 on January 13, 1983 in Bennington, Vermont.
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George Coleridge Emerson Goode was born on November 29, 1914 in Kingston, Jamaica. His father was a choirmaster and organist and his mother sang in the choir. Moving to Britain in 1934, the 19-year-old student at the Royal Technical College in Glasgow, Scotland and then went on to read for a degree in engineering at Glasgow University. Already proficient as an amateur classical violinist he turned to jazz and took up the bass after hearing the music of Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday and Louis Jordan and decided to embark upon a musical career.
His primary early influences as a bassist were Walter Page, Slam Stewart and Jimmy Blanton. In London during World War II, Coleridge worked with Johnny Claes, Eric Winstone, Lauderic Caton, Dick Katz, became a founder member of the Ray Ellington Quartet and recorded with Django Reinhardt in 1946, alongside Stephane Grappelli. He went on to play with Tito Burns’ sextet and led his own group, before being invited to join Joe Harriott’s new band in 1958.
By 1967 he was recording with Chris McGregor, Dudu Pukwana, Ronnie Beer, and Laurie Allan on Gwigwi Mrwebi’s Mbaqanga Songs. Through the decade and into the 1970s, Goode worked extensively with pianist/composer Michael Garrick, while performing in the house band at Laurie Morgan’s Sunday jam session into his 90s.
In 2002, he published his autobiography Bass Lines: A Life in Jazz, which chronicled the birth of free form jazz in Britain. He was honoured with the Services to Jazz Award at the Parliamentary Jazz Awards, and at the age of 100, double bassist Coleridge Goode passed away on October 2, 2015.
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Alan Lawrence Turnbull was born November 23, 1943 in Melbourne, Australia and after taking drum lessons from Graham Morgan he commenced his professional career at the age of 14. He played with top local jazz musicians such as Graeme Lyall, Keith Hounslow and Brian Brown while filling in for drummer Stewart Speer at Horst Liepolt’s Melbourne jazz venue, Jazz Centre 44.
Moving to Sydney in the late 1960s, Turnbull soon became very active in the jazz scene and worked regularly as a freelance musician, including a number of years with the Don Burrows quartet which worked regularly at various clubs, concerts, festivals and other venues throughout Australia and in the United States.
His partnership of drums/double bass with American double bassist Ed Gaston set a new standard for swing jazz rhythm sections in Australia that would influence Australian rhythm sections for decades.
In the following years he worked with the likes of Milt Jackson, Joe Henderson, Gary Burton, Sonny Stitt, Barney Kessell, Richie Cole, Cleo Laine, Billy Eckstine, Cab Calloway, Billy Field, and Neil Sedaka as well the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and the Australian Pops Orchestra.
Appearing on numerous recordings, including those of Don Burrows, Rolf Stube’s Jazz Police, Graeme Norris Band, The Jazz Co-op, The Two with Paul Macnamara, Neil Sedaka and Billy Field, drummer Alan Turnbull, who was also a freelance professional musician, passed away on August 28,2014.
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Satoshi Inoue 井上智 was born on November 12, 1956 in Kobe, Japan and studied at Kyoto’s Fuji School of Music from 1979 to 1981. Between 1981-1988, he led his own groups in Japan.
Moving to New York City in 1989 he studied at The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music where he met Jim Hall, who has been on the faculty of the university since his senior year.
Over the years, Inoue has toured with jazz greats such as James Moody, James Williams, Cecil Bridgewater, Frank Foster, Slide Hampton, Barry Harris, Jimmy Heath, Arnie Lawrence, Jack McDuff, Junior Mance, Jon Faddis, Akira Tana, The Clayton Brothers and Toshiko Akiyoshi.
His own band has gigged at New York’s top jazz venues, and for twelve years, Inoue has brought American musicians to Japan to conduct fall tours for concerts and workshops, including the Big Apple in Nonoichi festival. His lectures on jazz standards appear monthly in a Japanese jazz magazine called Jazz Life.
Guitarist Satoshi Inoue, who performed together on Hall’s widely used instructional video collection called Jazz Guitar Master Class Volumes 1&2, continues to compose, record and perform.
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Ariel de la Portilla was born on November 10, 1975 in Matanzas, Cuba where he lived until immigrating with his parents to Miami, Florida when he was five. Growing up in the Little Havana neighborhood he was surrounded by the sounds of Cuban and Brazilian music as well as simultaneously experiencing American music and culture that gave his childhood a distinctly unique dichotomy that later proved to have become a crucial aspect of his life, education, and musical identity.
After graduating from high school in 1994, he left Miami to pursue his interests in the double bass. Awarded a music scholarship to the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati, he dedicated most of his time to studying classical bass and jazz. He remained at CCM until recruited by the University of Miami in 1996 to study under the instruction of Don Coffman, Matt Bonnelli and Lucas Drew.
Since arriving in New York City, he has performed with jazz and Latin musicians including Ray Vega, Dave Valentin, Patato Valdez, Candido Camero, Edy Martinez, Willie Martinez, Peter Erskine, Eddie Daniels, and Sonny Bravo.
Bassist Ariel De La Portilla is currently a member of the Ze Luis Quartet and a new conceptual guitar trio, Lengua Moderna.
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