SEALED LP: GABOR SZABO: MACHO

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Gabor Szabo: Macho

FACTORY SEALED LP

Format: Sealed LP
Country: U.S.A.
Record Company & Release Number: Salvation Records/Motown: SAL 704 S1
Original release date/year: 1975
Bar Code: NONE
Condition of the cover: Mint
Condition of the record: Sealed - Assumed Mint
Shipping Weight: 1 pounds, 1 ounces
My inventory number: 208112C
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IF THIS ITEM DOES NOT SELL IN THIS AUCTION, IT WILL BE RELISTED IN MY STORE AT THE “BUY IT NOW” PRICE IN A WEEK OR TWO. Songs

• Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
• Time
• Transylvania Boogie
• Ziggidy Zog
• Macho
• Poetry Man

Credits

• Morgan Ames: Associate Producer
• George Bohannon: Trombone
• George Bohanon: Trombone
• Peter Chaikin: Assistant Engineer
• Joan Decola: Engineer
• John Paul Endress: Photography
• Jon Faddis: Trumpet
• Eric Gale: Guitar, Keyboards
• Bob James: Keyboards, Piano (Electric), Producer
• Louis Johnson: Bass
• Seiji Kaneko: Mastering
• Gilbert Kong: Mastering
• Gene Lees: Liner Notes
• Ralph MacDonald: Percussion
• Richard Mantel: Art Direction, Design
• Harvey Mason, Sr.: Arranger, Drums
• Susumu Morikawa: Coordination
• Idris Muhammad: Percussion
• Tom Scott: Lyre, Sax (Tenor), Lyricon
• Gabor Szabo: Guitar, Arranger
• Takashi Tannaka: A&R
• Ian Underwood: Synthesizer

Album Review
Review by Thom Jurek, All Music Guide

• Macho is right. This 1975 album is one of the headiest in the Hungarian-born guitarist Gabor Szabo's entire catalog. Produced by Bob James, the album is deep in fretless Fender basslines courtesy of Louis Johnson, funky Rhodes pianos and synthesizers from James and former Mother of Invention Ian Underwood, guitar savvy from Szabo with Eric Gale on rhythm, and a horn section that features no less than George Bohanon, Jon Faddis, and Tom Scott, with the venerable Harvey Mason Sr. on drums. This is a tough, in-your-face, funky soul-jazz band. Szabo's sense of camp was eternal as he covers, disco-style, Franz Liszt's "Hungarian Rhapsody #2," but slips into the souled-out groove-jazz of his own "Time," without a seam. Szabo's playing, with its mysterious, liquid runs and razor sharp melodic sensibilities, is centered here by James, who attempts to make Szabo's six strings be at the absolute dead-center of the mix. Tracks like James' own "Transylvania Boogie," (the long title track), and Phoebe Snow's "Poetry Man," offer a glimpse of Szabo as the consummate melodist: with teeth. Harmonically, this band was as disciplined as the charts would allow, giving nothing away in the ensemble sections. This is a tough, streetwise, commercial jazz album that has plenty to offer to anyone with an open mind. In the pocket, groove-soaked, and flawlessly executed.

Biography
Gabor Szabo biography by Douglas Payne, All Music Guide

• Gabor Szabo was one of the most original guitarists to emerge in the 1960s, mixing his Hungarian folk music heritage with a deep love of jazz and crafting a distinctive, largely self-taught sound. Inspired by a Roy Rogers cowboy movie, Szabo began playing guitar when he was 14 and often played in dinner clubs and covert jam sessions while still living in Budapest. He escaped from his country at age 20 on the eve of the Communist uprising and eventually made his way to America, settling with his family in California. He attended Berklee College (1958-1960) and in 1961 joined Chico Hamilton's innovative quintet featuring Charles Lloyd. Urged by Hamilton, Szabo crafted a most distinctive sound; as agile on intricate, nearly-free runs as he was able to sound inspired during melodic passages. Szabo left the Hamilton group in 1965 to leave his mark on the pop-jazz of the Gary McFarland quintet and the energy music of Charles Lloyd's fiery and underrated quartet featuring Ron Carter and Tony Williams. Szabo initiated a solo career in 1966, recording the exceptional album, Spellbinder, which yielded many inspired moments and "Gypsy Queen," the song Santana turned into a huge hit in 1970. Szabo formed an innovative quintet (1967-1969) featuring the brilliant, classically trained guitarist Jimmy Stewart and recorded many notable albums during the late '60s. The emergence of rock music (especially George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Jimi Hendrix) found Szabo successfully experimenting with feedback and less successfully (but innovative at the time) with more commercially oriented forms of jazz. During the '70s, Szabo regularly performed along the West Coast, hypnotizing audiences with his enchanting, spellbinding style. But from 1970, he was locked into a commercial groove, even though records like Mizrab occasionally revealed the success of his jazz, pop, Gypsy, Indian, and Asian fusions. Szabo had revisited his homeland several times during the '70s, finding opportunities to perform brilliantly with native talents. He was hospitalized during his final visit and died in 1982, just short of his 46th birthday and five years after his final American album was released.

• This record came from a record store called "Phantasmagoria" which was located in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Phantasmagoria went out of business in 1978. I purchased most of their unsold inventory some years later when I owned "Music Madness" - a new & used record store in Catasauqua, Pennsylvania.
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