Title: Spellbinder (Verve Vault Series)
Artist: Gabor Szabo
Label: Impulse Records
Product Type: VINYL LP
UPC: 602478984860
Genre: Jazz
Release Date: 2026-03-13
Number of Discs: 1
Additional Details: 180 GRAM VINYL

Gabor Szabo Spellbinder (Verve Vault Series) Recorded in May 1966 at Rudy Van Gelder’s Englewood Cliffs studio – Spellbinder, released in 1966 on Impulse! Records, introduced Hungarian guitarist Gabor Szabo to a wider American audience with a set that blends modal jazz, Eastern European folk influences, and 1960s pop textures. Recorded in May 1966 at Rudy Van Gelder’s Englewood Cliffs studio and produced by Bob Thiele, Spellbinder features Szab in a quintet setting with pianist Chick Corea (in one of his earliest recorded sessions), bassist Albert Stinson, drummer Chico Hamilton, and percussionist Willie Bobo. The record’s standout moment is a reimagining of Sonny Bono’s “Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down),” which Szab 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. The Verve Vault Series is always mastered from analog tapes and pressed on 180grAm vinyl. Mastered from analog tapes.

Tracks:
1.1 Spellbinder
1.2 Witchcraft
1.3 It Was A Very Good Year
1.4 Gypsy Queen
1.5 Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)
1.6 Cheetah
1.7 My Foolish Heart
1.8 Yearning
1.9 Autumn Leaves/Speak To Me Of Love
1.10 My Foolish Heart