Gábor Szabó Essentials

Gábor Szabó Essentials

This Hungarian guitarist, who elicited a distinctive electric sound from an amplified acoustic instrument, blurred the boundaries between jazz, pop and several international styles beginning in the late '60s. Santana added Szabó's hot-yet-breezy Hungarian-Latin composition "Gypsy Queen" to "Black Magic Woman", while Szabó himself had a passion for discovering new meanings in pop hits like "Some Velvet Morning". "Galatea's Guitar" is a compelling reflection of his Eastern European heritage, with a touch of Bartók; Szabo's overdubbed sitar on "Mizrab" represents an early—and successful—stab at Indo-jazz fusion.

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