Gyula Babos (June 26, 1949 in

Budapest Budapest (, ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Hungary. It is the ninth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the second-largest city on the Danube river; the city has an estimated population ...

- April 12, 2018 ibid) was a Hungarian jazz guitarist.

Biography

Babos was a part of the bands Kex, Rákfogó and Saturnus, and won the Jazz Competition of the Hungarian Radio in 1966. Since 1977 he taught guitar at the

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, where he became teacher of several generations of Hungarian guitarists. In the 1990s he gave some great concerts. He appeared in the Petofi Hall in Budapest with Victor Bailey,

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, György Jinda and Béla Szakcsi Lakatos, and gave a concert with Frank Zappa in front of 50,000 spectators. In 1997 he founded the Babos Romani Project, with which he recorded the album ''Once upon a time… (Egyszer volt…)'' in 1998. In the same year he recorded three albums with the group Take Four (

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, Rudolf Tomsits and Imre Kőszegi), followed by recordings with

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. In 2005 he founded the Babos Project Special, which included pianist Róbert Szakcsi Lakatos, violinist Öcsi Patai, upright bass player Viktor Hárs, drummer László Balogh and singer Mónika Veress. In 2006 they released the album ''Variations''. Babos was awarded the ''Gábor Szabó Award'' in 2003 and the

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in 2005.

Discography

* ''Kinn és benn,'' 1989 * ''Blue Victory,'' 1996 * ''Egyszer volt…,'' 1998 * Gyula Babos / Peter Dando / Peter Gritz – ''Saturnus-Csigahazak,'' 1999 (Hungaroton) * ''75 perc,'' 2004 * ''Variations,'' 2006 * ''Rapsodia,'' 2010 * ''Balance,'' 2014

References

External links

Gyula Babos at IMDb

Gyula Babos at Discogs

''Babos Gyula.''
{{DEFAULTSORT:Babos, Gyula 1949 births 2018 deaths Academic staff of the Franz Liszt Academy of Music Hungarian jazz guitarists Male guitarists Hungarian male musicians Male jazz musicians Musicians from Budapest