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Artist
Gábor Gadó
12+ albums
solo guitarhungarianguitar jazzhungaryHungarian Jazz
about
Gábor Gadó started his musical studies on the violin, then switched to the classical guitar. He graduated in 1983 from the Jazz Department of the Béla Bartók Music Conservatory as a student of Gyula Babos, following which he featured in the bands of the vanguard of Hungarian jazz musicians. Amongst his first partners were Róbert Rátonyi Jr, Ferenc Snétberger, Attila László, Béla Szakcsi Lakatos, Elemér Balázs and Kálmán Oláh. Later he appeared more and more frequently in international line-ups, for example alongside Gerald Veasley, Randy Roos and George Jinda. The first band he organised was called Joy, and recorded an album entitled Cross cultures. In 1991 he released Special time, the first album under his own name, then toured Europe with Nikola Parov. In 1995 he moved to France, then briefly lived in London too. After five years the Gábor Gadó Quartet was formed in Paris: Matthieu Donarier (tenor saxophone), Sébastien Boisseau (double bass), Joe Quitzke (drums). The guitarist/composer appears with his French and/or Hungarian partners, or even solo, on several BMC albums, among others the outstandingly successful Orthodoxia (BMC CD 083), or Gábor Winand’s Corners of my mind (BMC CD 057), the latter chosen by the French magazine Jazzman as one of the best albums of the year in 2002. His next BMC release Psyche (BMC CD 120) comes out end of the year. In 2003 his achievements earnt him the Bobby Jaspar prize, awarded by the French L’Academie du Jazz each year to the Europ
