Babos Project Romani

Gyula Babos one of the best known guitarists of the Hungarian jazz scene was born in Budapest, 26th June 1949. The first stage of his career as a musician began with the groups Rákfogó and Saturnus. He was hardly 17 when he won the Jazz Competition of the Hungarian Radio in 1966. Since the 1980s he has taught the guitar at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music.
In the 90's he performed some legendary concerts, first in Petőfi Hall with Victor Bailey, Terry Lynn Carrington, György Jinda and Béla Szakcsi Lakatos. Followed by the concert with Frank Zappa in front of an audience of fifty thousand people and later his co-performers were James Moody, Tony Scott and Gábor Szabó.
On recording the album "Sham" the best Hungarian musicians of the era participated. Even in the record title he referred to the world of the popular György Jinda who had been living abroad for long time. He made one of his best jazz album for Sony Columbia in 1994, and Blue Victory (1996) whose participants have already played together in the above mentioned concert in PeCSa (Petőfi Hall). The album was released in twelve countries. Babos put together a team of brilliant young musicians and in 1997, Babos Project Romani. Since then they have made great success on several festivals at home as well as abroad (Marseilles, Eilat, Bukarest, London, Kassa). SONY released his Project recordings in 1998 entitled "Once upon a time..."
In 1998 with the contribution of Take Four (Pege/Tomsics/Kőszegi) three records were produced.
In 2001 he recorded with the legendary Herbie Mann.
His latest concert album "Seventy-five minutes", recorded with the world famous percussionist Trilok Gurtu, was published in limited edition in 2004.
In 2005 they are performing in new line up under the name of Babos Project Special.

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