For close to 10 years, Jazz Guitarist/Composer Bob Gallo’s incidental and theme song music could be heard world-wide on the popular and now syndicated television episodes of The Cosby Show and It’s A Different World. For 5 years, he was the featured acoustic guitarist who accompanied popular recording legend Aretha Franklin on the theme song of It’s A Different World weeknights on NBC. Following his work for NBC, he was heard weekly on the popular Fox 5 Network series Living Single. Currently, he can be heard world-wide on syndicated episodes of all three shows for which he composed, performed and acted as Assistant Musical Director. In 1999 Bob Gallo began working on a new animated Cosby series for Nickelodeon and CBS entitled Little Bill, also released on Paramount Home Video and DVD, for which he currently composes, arranges and performs. It features voice-overs of such well-know actors as Gregory Hines, Phylicia Rashad, the late Madeline Kahn, Rosie Perez and Bill Cosby. An active studio musician, Gallo recently recorded with singer Denise Williams on her recently released Grammy Award-winning CD This Is My Song. In addition to his studio work, he has contributed music to the Sony Music Library for various Sony PlayStation video games through his work with Buzz Barrows of Sony Computer Entertainment in Foster City, California. Gallo’s popular quartet The Bob Gallo Group can be heard regularly in a number of New York City Clubs and on Long Island. Gallo’s group received favorable reviews from Newsday to The Washington Post, where they were billed for many years as The Cosby Show Band, and featured many times at Washington D.C.’s Blues Alley. Bob Gallo is considered by many to be one of today’s foremost accomplished, guitarist/composers. He is known to have played along side of such talents as Michael and Randy Brecker, George Whittey, Gerald Albright, Grover Washington, Jr., John Lewis, Clark Terry, Clarence Clemens and Bill Cosby. His talents were released nationwide in 2000 on his new CD Windsong on the Cat’s Paw label through Malico Records, which can be purchased online through Amazon.com and CDNOW. Bob Gallo endorses Gibson Guitars, Buscarino Archtop Guitars, Brian Moore Guitars and Behringer Studio Products.
