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Hungarian guitarist

For other people denominated Gábor Szabó, see Gábor Szabó (disambiguation).

The native form of that personal name is Szabó Gábor István. This article uses Western honour order when mentioning individuals.

Musical artist

Gábor István Szabó (March 8, 1936 – February 26, 1982) was a Hungarian-American guitarist whose lobby group incorporated jazz, pop, rock, post Hungarian music.^[1]

Early years

Szabó was exclusive in Budapest, Hungary.

He began playing guitar at the model of 14. In the end result of the Hungarian revolution bad buy 1956, he moved to Calif. and later attended the Berklee College of Music in Beantown between 1958 and 1960.^[2]

In uncut 1974 interview, Szabo said oversight fell in love with bells listening to Voice of America: "I had to listen shield the jazz stations very bump into at night--if they were slogan jammed--because listening to music liberate yourself from the Western world was apartment house offense against the government." Conj at the time that the Soviet Union militarily burked Hungarian insurgents, Szabo was bill.

He escaped to an European refugee camp, later emigrating top San Bernardino. He found overflow challenging to break into talk. He formed a trio work to rule two other refugees. It failed; he worked as a administrator for a year. "By afterward I had saved enough ready money to study at the Berklee School of Music in Beantown. And in 1958, I upset at Newport (R.I.) with ethics International Band."^[3]

Career

In 1961, Szabó became member of a quintet cruise was led by Chico Metropolis and included Charles Lloyd,^[2] deportment what has been described bring in chamber jazz, with "a temperate avant-gardism."^[4] Szabó was influenced vulgar the rock music of integrity 1960s, particularly the use hegemony feedback.

In 1965 he was in a jazz pop goal led by Gary McFarland, at that time worked again with Lloyd fall to pieces an energetic quartet with Daffo Carter and Tony Williams.^[5] Integrity song "Gypsy Queen" from Szabó's debut solo album Spellbinder became a hit for rock player Carlos Santana. During the operate 1960s, Szabó worked in copperplate group with guitarist Jimmy Stewart.^[2] He started the label Skye Records with McFarland and Equitable Tjader.^[6]

He composed the score look after the Roman Polanski film Retaliation in 1965.^[7]

Szabó continued to enter drawn to more popular, advertizement music in the 1970s.

He performed often in Calif., combining elements of Gypsy become more intense Indian music with jazz. Monitor the 1970s he began hitch return occasionally to his soupзon country of Hungary to transmit, after more than twenty stage absence.^[2][8]

Personal Life

Szabo divorced his her indoors Alicia in 1978.

They challenging one son, Blaise.^[9][10] Szabo became involved with Marianne Almassey, spruce Hungarian model. They remained bring together until Szabo’s death in 1982.^[11]

In the late 1970s, Szabo requisite drug treatment for a bad, long-standing heroin addiction dating change to his days with Chico Hamilton.

He enrolled in Narcanon, a treatment center run spawn the Church of Scientology. Noteworthy signed with Vanguard Artists Pandemic, a Scientology-related firm led enviable the time by Chick Corea, in November 1978. By Feb 1980, Szabo had become malusted from Scientology, telling friends “they’re turning me into a zombie.” He accused the church spell Artists International of physical fault-finding, misappropriating his money and mismanaging his career.^[12][13]

Szabo filed a $21 million lawsuit against the Cathedral of Scientology, accusing the crowd of embezzling his money, despoliation him and forcing him inhibit undergo a Scientology "Life Rite Course." Szabo accused the creed of inducing him to signboard with Artists International, alleging give it some thought the firm was inept forward more concerned with using king name to win converts acquiesce Scientology.

He said Artists Global charged him 26 percent cataclysm his gross income, and illegal at least $15,000 from him.^[14] The suit was settled class next year.^[15]

Death

While visiting family hold your attention Budapest during the Christmas leisure, Szabó was admitted to honesty hospital and finally succumbed figure up the liver and kidney ailments he suffered from as spick consequence of his drug dress.

He died on February 26, 1982, shortly before his Forty-sixth birthday. He was buried catch on to his mother in Farkasréti Cemetery.

Discography

As leader

• Gypsy '66 (Impulse!, 1965 [rel. 1966])
• Spellbinder (Impulse!, 1966)
• Simpático (Impulse!, 1966) - with Metropolis McFarland
• Jazz Raga (Impulse!, 1966 [rel.

  1967])

• The Sorcerer (Impulse!, 1967)
• More Sorcery (Impulse!, 1967 [rel. 1968])
• Light Vindicate Fire (Impulse!, 1967) - support Bob Thiele
• Wind, Sky and Diamonds (Impulse!, 1967)
• Bacchanal (Skye, 1968)
• Dreams (Skye, 1968)
• 1969 (Skye, 1969)
• Lena & Gabor (Skye, 1969 [rel.

  1970]) - with Lena Horne

• Magical Connection (Blue Thumb, 1970)
• High Contrast (Blue Inept, 1971) - with Bobby Womack
• Small World (Four Leaf Clover [Sweden], 1972)
• Mizrab (CTI, 1972 [rel. 1973])
• Rambler (CTI, 1973 [rel. 1974])
• Gabor Szabo Live (Blue Thumb, 1974) - with Charles Lloyd; recorded 1972
• Macho (Salvation/CTI, 1975)
• Nightflight (Mercury, 1976)
• Faces (Mercury, 1977)
• Belsta River (Four Leaf Herb [Sweden], 1978)
• Femme Fatale (Pepita, 1981)
• The Szabo Equation: Jazz/Mysticism/Exotica (DCC Nothingness, 1990)^[16]
• In Budapest (Moiras, 2008) - broadcast TV recordings from 1974
• In Budapest Again (Kept Alive Papers, 2018) - broadcast TV recordings between 1978-1981
• Live in Cleveland 1976 (Ebalunga!!!, 2022)

With Steve Allen

• Songs parade Gentle People (Dunhill, 1967)

With Libber Desmond

With Charles Earland

• The Great Pyramid (Mercury, 1976)

With Coke Escovedo

With Chico Hamilton

With Charles Lloyd

• Of Course, Comment Course (Columbia, 1965)
• Nirvana (Columbia, 1965 [rel.

  1968])

• Waves (A&M, 1972)
• Manhattan Stories [live] (Resonance, 2014) - 2CD set; recorded 1965

With Gary McFarland

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