The Verve Vault series is mastered from analog tapes and pressed on 180g vinyl at Optimal.<\/p>\n
Spellbinder, released in 1966 on Impulse! Records, introduced Hungarian guitarist G\u00e1bor Szab\u00f3 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\u2019s Englewood Cliffs studio and produced by Bob Thiele, Spellbinder features Szab\u00f3 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 group\u2019s hypnotic blend of grooves and drones helped establish Szab\u00f3\u2019s signature approach: vamp-based forms, sitar-like guitar articulation, and modal lines shaped by his Eastern European heritage.<\/p>\n
The title track, a slow-building vamp, showcases Szab\u00f3\u2019s minimalist phrasing and rhythmic sensitivity. The record\u2019s standout moment is a reimagining of Sonny Bono\u2019s \u201cBang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down),\u201d which Szab\u00f3 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.<\/p>\n
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\nA2 Witchcraft
\nA3 It Was A Very Good Year
\nA4 Gypsy Queen
\nB1 Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)
\nB2 Cheetah
\nB3 My Foolish Heart
\nB4 Yearning
\nB5 Autumn Leaves\/Speak To Me Of Love<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":77681,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[122,107],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-80833","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-jazz-fusion-en","7":"product_cat-new","8":"pa_formaatti-lp-en","9":"pa_kaytetty-uusi-new","11":"first","12":"instock","13":"taxable","14":"shipping-taxable","15":"purchasable","16":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshgarbage.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/80833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshgarbage.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshgarbage.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshgarbage.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshgarbage.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshgarbage.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=80833"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshgarbage.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=80833"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshgarbage.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=80833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}