Faces (Gábor Szabó album)

Faces
Studio album by Gábor Szabó
Released	1977
Recorded	March and April 1977
Studio	ABC Studios, Los Angeles, California
Genre	Jazz
Length	37:55
Label	Mercury SRM-1-1141
Producer	Wayne Henderson
Gábor Szabó chronology
Nightflight (1976) Faces (1977) Belsta River (1978)

Faces is an album by Hungarian guitarist Gábor Szabó, released in 1977 on the Mercury label.^[1][2]

Reception

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".^[3]

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[3]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	[4]

Track listing

All compositions by Gábor Szabó except as indicated

1. "The Biz" (Bobby Lyle) – 4:35
2. "Magic Mystic Faces" – 5:19
3. "Gloomy Day" (Wayne Henderson, Sylvia St. James) – 5:52
4. "Desiring You" (William Jeffery) – 6:05
5. "Misty Malarky Ying Yang" (Marlon McClain) – 6:59
6. "Alicia" – 5:37
7. "The Last Song" – 6:35
8. "Estaté" (Bruno Martino) – 3:28

• • Recorded at ABC Studios in Los Angeles, California in March and April 1977

Personnel

• Gábor Szabó – guitar
• James O. Stewart – guitar
• Oscar Brashear, Denny Christianson – trumpet
• George Bohannon – trombone
• Ernie Watts – tenor saxophone
• Bobby Lyle – electric piano
• Dean Gant – synthesizer
• Marlon McClain – electric guitar
• Nathaniel Phillips – electric bass
• Bruce Carter – drums
• Rini Kramer – cabassa, percussion
• 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
• Nathan Gershman, David H. Speltz – cello
• Sylvia St. James, Deborah Shotlow, Suandra Alexander, Cheryl Alexander – vocals
• William Jeffrey – arranger
• Wayne Henderson – horn arrangements

References

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