Gabor Szabo: Coolection (1968-1975)

Hungarian jazz guitarist.

Born: 8 March 1936 in Budapest, Hungary.
Died: 26 February 1982 in Budapest, Hungary (aged 45).

An influential jazz guitarist, famous for mixing jazz, pop-rock, and his native Hungarian music. Inspired by jazz music heard on Voice Of America radio broadcasts, Szabó began playing guitar at the age of 14.

Escaping Hungary in 1956 and moving to the US where he attended the Berkeley School Of Music in Boston. In 1958, he was also invited to perform at the Newport Jazz Festival. Szabó then went on to perform with the quintet of southern California drummer Chico Hamilton from 1961 to 1965.

Beginning in 1966, he recorded a well-received span of albums under his own name on the Impulse! label. In the late 1960s he co-founded the short-lived Skye Records label along with Cal Tjader and Gary McFarland. Later he signed with Blue Thumb Records and CTI Records.

Szabó died in Budapest in 1982 from liver and kidney disease while on a visit to his homeland.

~ discogs

Tracklist LP01. Dreams (1968, 2020, Modern Harmonic MH-8041 / C041):

01. Galatea's Guitar (Szabo) - 5:43
02. Half the Day Is Night (McFarland) - 4:28
03. Song of Injured Love (De Falla) - 4:11
04. The Fortune Teller (Szabo-Kabok) - 4:35
05. Fire Dance (De Falla) - 5:52
06. The Lady in the Moon (Szabo) (From Kodaly) - 5:28
07. Ferris Wheel (Donovan) - 5:37

Gabor Szabo, Jim Stewart - guitar
Louis Kabok - bass
Hal Gordon - percussion, congas
Jim Keltner - drums
Julius Schacter - violin
George Ricci - cello
Tony Miranda, Ray Alonge, Brooks Tillotson - French horn
Gary McFarland - piano

Recorded at Western Recording, Los Angeles, CA on August 6-9, 1968 and Gotham Recording, New York on August 22, 1968.
Mastered by Ryan Smith.

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Tracklist LP02. Mizrab (1972, 1979, CTI-Japan LAX 3234):

01. Mizrab (Szabo) - 9:35
02. Thirteen (Szabo) - 9:12
03. It's Going to Take Some Time (King) - 4:15
04. Concerto No.2 (Shostakovitch) - 7:20
05. Summer Breeze (Seals-Crofts) - 6:06

Gabor Szabo - guitar
Bob James - electric piano, arranger, conductor
Ron Carter - bass, arco bass
Billy Cobham (#1,3), Jack DeJohnette - drums
Ralph MacDonald - percussion
Marvin Stamm - trumpet, flugelhorn
Wayne Andre - trombone
James Buffington, Brooks Tillotson - French horn
John Campo - bass clarinet, bassoon
Sidney Weinberg - oboe, English horn
Hubert Laws - flute, bass flute, alto flute, piccolo
George Marge - oboe, clarinet, recorder
Max Ellen, Paul Gershman, Harold Kohan, Charles Libove, Joe Malim, David Nadien, John Pintaualle, Irving Spice - violin
Richard Dickler, Theodore Israel - viola
Charles McCracken, George Ricci, Alan Shulman - cello
Charles Israel - arco bass
Margaret Ross - harp

Recorded at the Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ in December 1972.

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Tracklist LP03. Macho (1975, 1978, CTI-Japan LAX 3196):

01. Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 (Liszt) - 6:57
02. Time (Szabo) - 5:42
03. Transylvania Boogie (James) - 5:34
04. Ziggidy Zag (Mason) - 6:04
05. Macho (Szabo) - 9:18
06. Poetry Man (Snow) - 4:29

Gabor Szabo, Eric Gale - guitar
Bob James - piano, electric piano, synthesizer
Ian Underwood - synthesizer
Louis Johnson - bass
John Faddis - trumpet
Harvey Mason - drums
Ralph MacDonald, Idris Muhammad - percussion
Tom Scott - tenor saxophone, lyricon
George Bohanon - trombone

Recorded at Kendun Recorders, Burbank, CA in April 1975.

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