{{short description|Canadian jazz pianist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2021}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Ian Bargh | image = | image_size = | birth_name = Ian Martin Bargh | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1935|01|08}} | birth_place = Prestwick, Scotland, United Kingdom | origin = | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2012|01|02|1935|01|08}} | death_place = Toronto, Ontario, Canada | genre = Jazz | occupation = Musician, composer | instrument = Piano | years_active = 1953–2011 | label = Sackville, Cornerstone | associated_acts = }} '''Ian Martin Bargh''' (8 January 1935 – 2 January 2012) was a Scottish born Canadian jazz pianist and composer.
==Early life== Born in Prestwick, Scotland, Bargh established himself by the age of 17 as a classical pianist that played with jazz ensembles in the U.K. He emigrated to Toronto in 1957 and continued a musical career that spanned six decades.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.canadianjazzarchive.org/en/musicians/ian-bargh.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110806211200/http://www.canadianjazzarchive.org/en/musicians/ian-bargh.html | url-status=usurped | archive-date=6 August 2011 | title=Ian Bargh Biography | accessdate=3 January 2012}}</ref>
==Career== Bargh quickly established himself as a featured pianist and sideman for touring musicians stopping to perform in Toronto, playing in such legendary establishments as George's Spaghetti House. Through the 1960s and 1970s, some of the many jazz greats he played with were, Buddy Tate, Buck Clayton, Bobby Hackett, Vic Dickenson, Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson, Ernestine Anderson, Harry "Sweets" Edison, Edmond Hall, Doc Cheatham, and Tyree Glenn.{{Citation needed|date=April 2025}}
In the 1980s, he began an eight-year association with Jim Galloway's "Toronto Alive" project at the Sheraton Centre. Live collaborations at the centre included those with, Zoot Sims, Al Cohn, Lee Konitz, Peter Appleyard, Frank Wright, Scott Hamilton, Rob McConnell, Guido Basso, Ed Bickert, Dizzy Reece, and Warren Vache, among others.{{Citation needed|date=April 2025}}
During this period, he also toured in jazz festivals across the world in an all-star group again led by Galloway. He was also featured at the Bern International Jazz Festival as part of an impressive roster that included fellow pianists Chick Corea, Count Basie and Dave Brubeck.{{Citation needed|date=April 2025}}
Towards the end of this period, he began a fifteen-year association with the Toronto Jazz Festival, leading the rhythm section of the host hotel's house band. It was at this venue that he performed with scores of musicians, including, Plas Johnson, Spanky Davis, Harold Ashby, both Warren and Allan Vache, Fraser MacPherson, Joe Temperley, Randy Sandke, Jake Hanna, and George Masso.{{Citation needed|date=April 2025}}
==Recordings== Bargh performed as a sideman for many Toronto-based recordings, many of them on the Sackville Records label, which also released his solo album "Only Trust Your Heart", which received an enthusiastic review by AllMusic jazz critic Dave Nathan.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/only-trust-your-heart-r468616 | title=Ian Bargh - "Only Trust Your Heart" | publisher= AllMusic| accessdate=3 January 2012}}</ref>
==Discography== * ''Only Trust Your Heart'' (Sackville, 2000)
===As sideman=== * ''At the Bern Jazz Festival'' – Doc Cheatham (Sackville, 1994) * ''Echoes of Swing'' – Jim Galloway (Cornerstone, 2003) * ''Diano Who?'' – Diana Drew (Jocosity, 2003)
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==External links== * {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20110806211200/http://www.canadianjazzarchive.org/en/musicians/ian-bargh.html Biography at the Canadian Jazz Archive]}} * {{YouTube|13dculFgKTg|Live at The Toronto Jazz Festival}}
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