Gábor Szabó (musician)

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Gábor Szabó

Gábor Szabó (born March 8, 1936 in Budapest ; † February 26, 1982 there ) was a Hungarian jazz guitarist .

life and work

Szabó began to play the guitar as a self-taught man at the age of fourteen. From 1954 he appeared as a professional musician in various ensembles in Budapest and composed for film and radio. On November 22, 1956, he left as a refugee his Hungarian homeland, moved to the United States and studied 1957-1959 at the Berklee College of Music , where he among other things, Toshiko Akiyoshi and the Newport International Band led by Marshall Brown said on Played Newport Jazz Festival in 1958. From 1961 to 1965 he was a member of the Chico Hamilton Quintet. In 1965 he orchestrated the music for Roman Polański's filmDisgust . At the same time he was in Charles Lloyd's quartet. As early as 1964, the jazz magazine Down Beat had honored himas “best new jazz guitarist”alongside Attila Zoller , who was also from Hungary. In 1969 he accompanied the singer Lena Horne ( Lena & Gabor ).

Carlos Santana used Szabó's piece Gypsy Queen as part of his arrangement of Peter Green's Black Magic Woman in 1970 . The title appeared on Santana's album Abraxas and became a worldwide hit as a single. From the late 1960s, Szabó had his own bands such as the short-lived rock jazz group The Perfect Circle (1974). In 1968 he founded the record label Skye Records with Gary McFarland and Cal Tjader . In the 1970s, Szabó played with artists such as Ron Carter , Paul Desmond , Wayne Henderson and Bobby Womack .

Szabó died of liver and kidney failure in 1982 while on home leave in Hungary.

Discography (selection)

under his own name
  • Gypsy '66 (1965)
  • Spellbinder (1966)
  • Jazz Raga (1966)
  • The Sorcerer (Recorded Live at the Jazz Workshop, Boston, 1967)
  • More Sorcery (rec. 1967)
  • Bacchanal (1968)
  • Dreams (1968)
  • 1969 (1969)
  • High Contrast (1971)
  • Mizrab (1972)
  • Rambler (1973)
  • Macho (1975)
  • Nightflight (1976)
  • Faces (1977)
  • Belsta River (1979)
  • Femme Fatale (with Chick Corea , Paulinho da Costa and Jim Keltner ; 1981)
with Chico Hamilton
  • Litho (1961)
  • Drum Fusion (1962)
  • Transfusion (1962)
  • Passin Thru (1962)
  • A Different Journey (1963)
  • Man From Two Worlds (1963)
  • Repulsion (1964)
  • Chic Chic Chico (1965)
  • El Chico (1965)
  • The Further Adventures Of El Chico (1966)
with Charles Lloyd
  • Of Course, of Course (1965)
  • Nirvana (1965)
  • Manhattan Stories (1965, ed. 2014)
  • Waves (1972)
with Gary McFarland
  • The In Sound (1965)
  • Profiles (1966)
  • Simpatico (1966)

literature

  • Maurice Summerfield: The Jazz Guitar - Its evolution and its players (English). Ashley Mark Publishing 1978. ISBN 0-9506224-1-9

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Summerfield: The Jazz Guitar , p. 197

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Szabó, Gábor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian jazz guitarist
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 1982
Place of death Budapest