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Gabor Szabo
Gabor Szabó was born in Budapest and began playing guitar at the age of 14, inspired by jazz music on the Voice of America broadcasts. Gabor Szabó's work includes labels such as Impulse! Records, Skye Records and Mercury as well as the CTI label in which he worked on albums such as Macho in 1975 with Bob James, who he knew back at Berklee School of Music in Boston which he attended in '56. During a visit to his homeland Budapest in 1982 the Jazz Guitarist died from liver and kidney disease.
Galliano
Galliano was a London based acid jazz group, which started up in 1988. The group was the first signing to Eddie Piller and Gilles Peterson's Talkin' Loud label. The original members were Rob Gallagher (vocals), Constantine Weir (vocals), and Crispin Robinson (percussion). Other important members include Valerie Etienne, who participated in the recording of all their CDs, along with other musicians such as Mick Talbot on keyboards, Crispin Taylor on drums and Ernie McKone on bass guitar. Galliano achieved the peak of its success in 1994 with The Plot Thickens, a major work that fuses the extreme harmonies and rhythms of jazz with up-to-the-minute urban soul on tracks such as "Twyford Down", with its numerous changes of tempo, or "Travels the Road" and "Long Time Gone". Frontman Rob Gallagher continues to perform (as of 2005/2006) as Earl Zinger. Galliano provided the track used in the title sequence of the 1997 Samuel L Jackson film One Eight Seven. The track "Slack Hands" appears on their 1996 album 4.