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A native of the Boston area, Barry attended classes at the Berklee College of Music while in high school and studied piano with a number of private teachers, including Jack Reilly at Berklee and Robert Winter at the New England Conservatory of Music. He gigged with Charlie Mariano, Jerry Bergonzi, Ted Brown, Harvie S, and John Abercrombie.

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While undertaking a graduate degree program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he made a number of personal appearances, and was invited to play at a Percussion Workshop featuring Gary Burton and Joe Morello. Later moving to Milwaukee, Barry was house pianist at the Jazz Gallery. He performed with players such as John McNeil, Brian Lynch, Charles Davis, Chuck Hedges, David Hazeltine, Gerald Cannon, Jeff Chambers, Carl Allen, Steve Houghton, and drummer Mark Johnson.

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After Barry retired from his position as Professor at Marquette University, he came back home to the Boston area, where he has performed with Phil Grenadier, John Lockwood, Jerry Bergonzi, Bronek Suchanek, and others. Barry has recorded with Annie and the Jazz Orphans, Jerry Grillo, Frank Noviello, Jamie Breiwick, the Eric Jacobson quintet, Los Angeles-based saxophonist Fred Horn, and the Eric Jacobson-Eric Schoor group + Grammy award-winning trumpet player Brian Lynch.

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Barry’s latest project, Something Wonderful, is a duo cd with master bassist Harvie S. It is available on RVS Records. The cd is a varied, complete, melodic musical portrait, featuring a lovely original waltz by Harvie,“No Walls”; interpretations of tunes written by other jazz musicians (J. J. Johnson, Roland Kirk, Duke Pearson);  four show tunes; and two seldom-played popular songs (“Mr. Sandman” and “Lollipops and Roses”).

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