John Coltrane
Lettre à Don DeMichael
English version
Gábor Gadó is a major figure in modern Hungarian music. A musician literally out of the norm, able to compose with the universes of Peter Eötvös, Dave Liebman or Aki Takase. Gadó is a rare, unclassifiable artist, who reserves his appearances, a mysterious personality who effaces himself behind the music, refusing the rules of protocol, protecting the purity of his art from this world that defiles.
Rather than trying to define what is to be heard, it is good to think back to the words of another pure soul of music (speaking here of the painter Van Gogh):
« Truth is indestructible. It seems history shows (and it’s the same today) that the innovator is more often than not met with some degree of condemnation.; usually according to the degree of departure from the prevailing modes of expression or what have you. Change is always hard to accept. We also see these innovators always seek to revitalize, extend and reconstruct the status quo in their given fields, whatever is needed. Quite often they are rejects, outcasts, sub-citizens etc. of the very societies to which they bring so much sustenance. Often they are people who endure great personal tragedy in their lives. Whatever the case, whether accepted or rejected, rich or poor, they are forever guided by that great eternal constant – the creative urge »
John Coltrane
Letter to Don DeMichael
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AVAILABLE 16-21 JANUARY, 2023
QUARTET
Gabor Gado – guitar, composition
Matthieu Donarier – saxophone
Sébastien Boisseau – bass
Joe Quitzke – drums
PRESSE
« …On pourrait commencer par dire que Gabor Gado est un guitariste d’exception. Au regard de la musique qu’il nous offre ce serait d’une banalité affligeante. Certes, il a assimilé d’admirable manière le vocabulaire des grands guitaristes de jazz des années 1970, tels John Abercrombie ou Pat Metheny. Mais ce qui bouleverse chez ce musicien né à Budapest en 1957, c’est la poétique architecturale qui constamment renouvelée, en urgence de témoignage. Guitariste, Gabor l’est assurément, mais c’est avant tout un compositeur, non pas auteur des thèmes mélodiques ouverts à l’improvisation entre deux exposés, mais compositeur de grandes formes, entre le Coltrane de Offering et la musique de chambre de David Schnitke et les chœurs d’Arvo Part…. » Franck Bergerot. JAZZ MAGAZINE
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