Gabor Szabo – Dreams

My only prior knowledge of Szabo was that he wrote George Benson’s Breezin’ with Bobby Womack. He led quite an interesting life: growing up in communist Budapest and moving to America, making his name as a jazz guitarist (and what at beautiful guitarist he was), suing the Church of Scientology, before dying as a result of his heroin use.

I remember reading somewhere recently (possibly Miles Davis's autobiography) that he would have been much more well known if he hadn't prioritised the gear.

This is an album of slightly Hungarian-folk-sounding guitar-led pieces. Apparently, this is called third stream: basically, a fusion of classical and jazz. It would veer a little towards the 1970s budget supermarket album sound, especially with him covering Donovan, if it wasn’t for the quality of his playing.

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