''Faces'' is an album by Hungarian guitarist Gábor Szabó featuring performances recorded in 1977 and released on the
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The Allmusic review states "The iconoclastic guitarist's final American record suffers producer Wayne Henderson's dated disco tendencies. But by the time the needle finds side two, some genuinely beautiful performances emerge".Payne, D Allmusic Review accessed February 23, 2012
Track listing
:''All compositions by Gábor Szabó except as indicated''
# "The Biz" ( Bobby Lyle) - 4:35
# "Magic Mystic Faces" - 5:19
# "Gloomy Day" ( Wayne Henderson, Sylvia St. James) - 5:52
# "Desiring You" (William Jeffery) - 6:05
# "Misty Malarky Ying Yang" (Marlon McClain) - 6:59
# "Alicia" - 5:37
# "The Last Song" - 6:35
# " Estaté" (
Bruno Martino
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Martino learned to play the piano at the age of fourteen. A Jazz fan, he spent the early years of his career performing with European radio an ...
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**Recorded at ABC Studios in Los Angeles, California in March and April 1977
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Ernie Watts
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*Vance Tenort, Paul C. Shure, Bonnie Douglas, Assa Drori, Irving Geller, Irma Neumann, Haim Shtrum, Carroll Stephens, Robert Sushel - violin
*James Dunham, Janet Lakatos - viola
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Nathan Gershman
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, David H. Speltz - cello
*Sylvia St. James, Deborah Shotlow, Suandra Alexander, Cheryl Alexander - vocals
*William Jeffrey -
arranger
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