Gabor Szabo - Bacchanal
ARTIST.....: Gabor Szabo
TITLE......: Bacchanal
LABEL......: Skye
URL........: www.myspace.com/gaborszabo
RIP DATE...: Jun-02-2007
STORE DATE.: Mar-27-2007
GENRE......: Jazz
QUALITY....: VBR / 44.1Hz / Joint-Stereo
SIZE.......: 44,9 MB
Track Listing:
01 - three king fishers 04:49
02 - love is blue 04:18
03 - theme from valley of the dolls 03:49
04 - bacchannal 04:56
05 - sunshine superman 03:46
06 - some velvet morning 05:23
07 - the look of love 03:16
08 - the divided city 03:19
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33:36 min
Release Notes:
Gabor Szabo was one of the most original guitarists to emerge in
the 1960s, mixing his Hungarian folk music heritage with a deep
love of jazz and crafting a distinctive, largely self-taught
sound. Inspired by a Roy Rogers cowboy movie, Szabo began playing
guitar when he was 14 and often played in dinner clubs and covert
jam sessions while still living in Budapest. He escaped from his
country at age 20 on the eve of the Communist uprising and
eventually made his way to America, settling with his family in
California. He attended Berklee College (1958-60) and in 1961
joined Chico Hamilton's innovative quintet featuring Charles
Lloyd. Urged by Hamilton, Szabo crafted a most distinctive sound;
agile on intricate, nearly-free runs as he was able to sound
inspired during melodic passages. Szabo left the Hamilton group in
1965 to leave his mark on the pop-jazz of the Gary McFarland
quintet and the energy music of Charles Lloyd's fiery and
underrated quartet featuring Ron Carter and Tony Williams. Szabo
initiated a solo career in 1966, recording the exceptional album,
Spellbinder, which yielded many inspired moments and "Gypsy
Queen," the song Santana turned into a huge hit in 1970. Szabo
formed an innovative quintet (1967-69) featuring the brilliant,
classically trained guitarist Jimmy Stewart and recorded many
notable albums during the late 1960s. The emergence of rock music
(especially George Harrison, Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix) found
Szabo successfully experimenting with feedback and less
successfully (but innovative at the time) with more commercially
oriented forms of jazz. During the 1970s, Szabo regularly
performed along the West Coast, hypnotizing audiences with his
enchanting, spellbinding style. But from 1970, he was locked into
a commercial groove, even though records like Mizrab occasionally
revealed the success of his jazz, pop, Gypsy, Indian and Asian
fusions. Szabo had revisited his homeland several times during the
1970s, finding opportunities to perform brilliantly with native
talents. He was hospitalized during his final visit and died in
1982, just short of his 46th birthday and five years after his
final American album was released
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