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Babos Gyula
12+ albums
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Gyula Babos (Babos Gyula, Budapest, Hungary, 26 June, 1949 - 12 April, 2018) was a Hungarian jazz guitarist. Plays guitar, keys instruments, synthesizer, percussions. Programmer, drum programmer, orchestrator, producer, vocalist. Professor of Jazz Division of Liszt Ferenc College of Music Arts. He founded the band Saturnus (1979), Babos Trio Plusz (1985), Babos Trio (1989), Babos Quartet, Take Four (1995), Babos Project Romani (1997), Babos Project Special. Former member of the bands Kex (1970), Kőszegi Imre Ensemble (1975-77). "...If you do not know his play, you simply lose colours from the palette of existence and revelation, and they will never get back to you after the moment when the magic fades away..." Babos Gyula one of the best known guitarists of the Hungarian jazz scene was born in Budapest, 26th June 1949. The first stage of his career as a musician began with the groups Rákfogó and Saturnus. He was hardly 17 when he won the Jazz Competition of the Hungarian Radio in 1966. Since the 1980s he has taught the guitar at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music. In the 90's he performed some legendary concerts, first in Petőfi Hall with Victor Bailey, Terry Lynn Carrington, Jinda György and Szakcsi Lakatos Béla. Followed by the concert with Frank Zappa in front of an audience of fifty thousand people and later his co-performers were James Moody, Tony Scott and Szabó Gábor. On recording the album "Sham" the best Hungarian musicians of the era participated. Even in th
