{"product_id":"szabo-gabor-spellbinder-verve-vault-series","title":"Szabo, Gabor - Spellbinder (Verve Vault Series)","description":"\u003ci\u003eSpellbinder\u003c\/i\u003e, released in 1966 on Impulse! Records, introduced Hungarian guitarist, Gábor Szabó, to a wider American audience with a set that blends modal jazz, Eastern European folk influences, and 1960s pop textures. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRecorded in May 1966 at Rudy Van Gelder’s Englewood Cliffs studio and produced by Bob Thiele, \u003ci\u003eSpellbinder\u003c\/i\u003e features Szabó in a quintet setting with bassist, Ron Carter, drummer, Chico Hamilton, and percussionists, Willie Bobo and Victor Pantoja. The group’s hypnotic blend of grooves and drones helped establish Szabó’s signature approach: vamp-based forms, sitar-like guitar articulation, and modal lines shaped by his Eastern European heritage.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nThe title track, a slow-building vamp, showcases Szabó’s minimalist phrasing and rhythmic sensitivity. The record’s standout moment is a reimagining of Sonny Bono’s “Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down),” which Szabó transforms into a darkly lyrical modal meditation. Elsewhere, the group blurs the lines between jazz improvisation and global rhythms, bridging bop vocabulary with the expanding musical frontiers of the mid-1960s.","brand":"VERVE","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":53022176510294,"sku":"MRM-03205","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/6088\/9430\/files\/4e17776f2333560bc2f54dc4ce24e876.jpg?v=1775204026","url":"https:\/\/monorailmusic.com\/products\/szabo-gabor-spellbinder-verve-vault-series","provider":"Monorail Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}