Gábor Gadó

Gábor Gadó (born April 13, 1957 in Pécs ) is a Hungarian jazz guitarist and composer.

Life

Gadó learned to play the violin and guitar at the age of eight and made music at dance events and in clubs in southern Hungary. In 1980 he went to Budapest to the Béla Bartók Conservatory, where he won the first prize for jazz in 1982. He performed with the "Hungarian Guitar Trio" (with Ferenc Snétberger and László Attila). In 1987 he founded the group "JOY" and recorded his first albums ("Cross Cultures", "Special Time"). In 1992 he recorded with the "OM" band. In 1994 he toured with the Bulgarian folk musician Nichola Parov. Since 1995 he has been moving regularly to Paris , where in 2000 he founded his “Gabor Gado Quartet” with Matthieu Donarian , Sébastien Boisseau and Joe Quitzke .

Gadó also composes film music, classical music and arranges, not only for jazz ensembles, but also for folk music ensembles. He also composes for the jazz singer Gábor Winand and accompanies him with his quartet. In 1999 the Hungarian label BMC Records released “One Glimpse Is Not Enough”, 2000 “Greetings from the Angel”, 2002 “Homeward”, 2003 “Orthodoxia” and “Unknown Kingdom” and 2005 “The second coming” (the title plays a poem by William Butler Yeats ).

In 2003 he received the Prix ​​Bobby Jaspar of the French Académie du Jazz as the best European jazz musician. In 2002 he received the “Choc” award from the French magazine Jazzman .

Web links

• Gadó Gábor (with discography) at BMC ( Hungarian )
• Gadó Gábor at zene.hu (Hungarian)
• Jazz newspaper 2005 on Gadó