Gabor Szabo's quintet featuring Jimmy Stewart was i of the guitarist's rattling best units. Live performances similar this, recorded at Boston's Jazz Workshop, document around of the excitement the grouping stirred inwards 1967-1968. Included inwards the 1997 CD reissue are iii first-class tracks ("Los Matadoros," "People," together with "Corcovado") recorded at the same concert, which originally appeared on More Sorcery. The playing seems inspired, together with the interplay inside the grouping is something to behold -- fifty-fifty when performing lightweight tunes similar "The Beat Goes On."
Hungarian guitarist Szabo got his cause amongst drummer Chico Hamilton (who besides discovered Eric Dolphy together with Charles Lloyd, amid others), but was shortly off on his ain amongst a unique hybrid of jazz improv together with a twang reminiscent of surf guitar. By the 1970s he had descended into Donovan together with Carpenters covers (and fifty-fifty those are pretty groovy inwards a hip-kitsch manner), but this CD combines ii LPs that captured him alive at his 1967 peak. Well, at that spot is a Sonny together with Cher tune, but it's a expert one. Also featured is a minute guitarist, Jimmy Stewart, together with the meshing Eastern-tinged comping of the ii is equally hypnotic equally the title.
My introduction to Gabor Szabo was dorsum inwards the slow 1960s when the older blood brother of a lady friend turned me on to his music together with the music of a bang-up many others. I was exclusively twelve or 13 at the time, but fifty-fifty at that historic catamenia could come across that this was something special.
Over the years, I ended upward buying this album together with a few other early on Szabo albums together with fifty-fifty had the expert fortune to come across him perform alive at the Boojum Tree inwards Phoenix inwards the mid-70s.
I hadn't listened inwards years, however, until of late a friend I was visiting had it on his CD player.
Ah! The memories it brought back! When I got home, I ordered it hither together with when it arrived the music directly transported me dorsum to those halcyon days of long ago. My favorites hither are Little Boat, Lou-ise, Space, Mizrab, together with the magnificent Spanish-tinged tour de force, Los Matodoros. Szabo's play is redolent of the mysteries of the Old World together with amongst Jimmy Stewart playing inwards counterpoint to him, your listening pleasance is doubled.
Though I handle amongst around of the reviewers that The Beat Goes On, People, together with Corcovado are cheesy, their inclusion on this CD does non detract from its five-star rating. Those who know the music of Szabo know he had an strange fondness for around songs that convey no musical merit but at that spot is less of that sort of pap hither than on around of his subsequently recordings.
Anyone who is enjoys jazz or exactly bang-up guitar playing should endure interested inwards hearing this. The Sorcerer epitomizes slow 60s jazz together with that makes it an essential add-on to whatsoever serious fan's CD library.
The offset fusion recordings are atributed to Miles Davis' slow sixties quintet amongst Wayne Shorter, together with mayhap this is correct, but the jazz/rock/world music (Brazilian/Spanish/Indian) brew that Gabor Szabo was concocting inwards this 1960's session cannot endure overlooked equally something inconsequential. It's non exclusively Szabo's pop/rock leanings but his approach to playing the guitar which should assure his inclusion amid the pioneers of the musical genre that was subsequently to endure called fusion. He oftentimes uses audio effects together with drone tones equally good equally chords together with single-note techniques that were quite exterior the measure jazz vocabulary of the time. Aside from that the tape is thick amongst the slow 60's atmosphere - I tin exactly flick a smoky java menage filled amongst smells of coffee, cigarette smoke together with incense. It is no surprise that Carlos Santana quotes Szabo equally i his earliest influences.
Some songs meander meaninglessly without developing a cohesive solo, but at that spot are around others amongst around nicely done solos equally well. He does a bang-up project on the bossa novas - around people volition nation they are cheesy, but you lot convey to recollect that inwards the sixties, bossas were absolutely inwards vogue, together with thus super cool.
H5N1 overnice album that volition definetly appeal to a greater extent than to the fusion fans than jazz purists.
Time is a funny thing. Dig, today a lot of folks don’t know his name, but dorsum inwards the day, Hungarian gypsy guitarist Gabor Szabo was The Guy. His crystalline, single-note bursts of emotional swing together with baroquely romantic effluence made him a latter-day Django. An immensely pop guitarist, Szabo’s music was the soundtrack of pick for the hip ’70s careerist. At first, known exclusively to the jazz world, Szabo was elevated into the larger pop consciousness amongst his album The Sorcerer. H5N1 beguiling blend of eastern motifs, Old World noblesse oblige together with ripe drama, The Sorcerer was recorded at Boston’s legendary Jazz Workshop amongst his working quartet (Jimmy Smith, guitar; Louis Kabok, bass; Marty Morell, drums; Hal Gordon, percussion). Convincing proof that it is high high fourth dimension for a major reappraisal of Gabor Szabo’s works.
Track listing:
Recorded at The Jazz Workshop inwards Boston, Massachusetts on Apr fourteen & 15, 1967
"The Beat Goes On" (Sonny Bono) - 4:52
"Little Boat (O Barquinho)" (Ronaldo Bôscoli, Roberto Menescal) - 4:23
"Lou-Ise" (Jimmy Stewart) - 4:17
"What Is This Thing Called Love?" (Cole Porter) - 5:18
"Space" - 6:40
"Stronger Than Us" (Francis Lai, Pierre Barough) - 4:13
"Mizrab" - 6:58
"Comin' Back" (Clyde Otis, Gábor Szabó) 1:56
"Los Matadoros" - 12:09 (Bonus runway on CD reissue)
"People" (Jule Styne, Bob Merrill) - 5:18 (Bonus runway on CD reissue)
"Corcovado" (Antônio Carlos Jobim) - 3:22 (Bonus runway on CD reissue)
Personnel:
Gábor Szabó - guitar
Jimmy Stewart - guitar
Lajos "Louis" Kabok - bass
Marty Morell – drums
Hal Gordon - percussion
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