Gabor Szabo

Gabor Szabo (1936 to 1982) fled Budapest in 1956, studied briefly at Berklee and developed a guitar sound of his own in jazz, largely self-taught: Hungarian folk scales, Indian drones and a controlled use of feedback. He came to notice in Chico Hamilton's quintet, then with Charles Lloyd, before a run of Impulse! albums, Spellbinder (1966) among them. His tune "Gypsy Queen" became world famous through Santana's version.