The Dreamer Gábor Szalay Trio

• 1Alone Together06:58
• 2There Will Never Be Another You05:49
• 3Body And Soul05:21
• 4Waltz New04:50
• 5St. Thomas04:24
• 6In Walked Bud 05:35
• 7The Dreamer 06:41
• Total Runtime39:38

Info for The Dreamer

The Dreamer features The Gabor Szalay Trio performing six Jazz Classics. Including Alone Together by Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz, There Will Never Be Another You by Harry Warren and Mack Gordon, Body And Soul by Johnny Green, Edward Herman, Robert Sour and Frank Eyton, Waltz New by Jim Hall, St. Thomas by Sonny Rollins and In Walked Bud by Thelonious Monk. The title track – The Dreamer – was written by Gabor Szalay.

"We were asked to record this album with a line-up of two guitars and a double bass by Róbert Zoltán Hunka of Hunnia Records. He had heard this material earlier when I played together in a trio with the late great guitar maestro, Gyula Babos and excellent bass player, Viktor Hárs.

"We tried to recreate the spirit of the trio by using similar material. In place of the late Gyula Babos, my friend, the excellent István Gyárfás plays the other guitar. The material is made up of well- known standards with the exception of “The Dreamer” which was composed by myself earlier, but on the album, it’s dedicated to Gyula in memoriam. We only recorded just one take of each song and made absolutely no corrections afterwards in order to give it a live feel."

Gábor Szalay, guitar
István Gyárfás, guitar
Viktor Hárs, double bass

Gábor Szalay Trio
This brilliant trio plays quite a few adaptations of the great jazz composers but whatever they play it’s exciting and vibrant modern jazz.

Gábor Szalay is the outstanding Hungarian exponent of bebop guitar with his highly harmonic and incredibly swinging approach. With his extremely modest personality he lets the music speak for itself instead of showboating. He plays in the time-honoured, highly approachable tradition of Barney Kessel, Wes Montgomery, Kenny Burrell, Barney Kessel, Jim Hall and Grant Green.

István Gyárfás's greatest influence is Wes Montgomery and other giants of mainstream jazz. He has performed at a number of jazz festivals featuring musicians such as Carol Cass, Sidney Ellis, Agostino DiGiorgio, Tommy Vig, Herbie Mann. He has given concerts in Austria, Denmark, Germany, and Romania.

Bass player, bass guitarist and composer Viktor Hárs is a grandmaster of his instruments on which he is one of the most in-demand musicians in his country. He has played probably with all the best-known Hungarian musicians. As for the world stars of jazz, he has accompanied, among others Ernie Wilkins, Tony Scott, Carl Fontana,  Al Jarreau, David Liebman, Peter Erskine, Al Di Meola, Trilok Gurtu, Johnny Griffin, Bob Mintzer. 

Booklet for The Dreamer