Gyula Babos

Gyula Babos (June 26, 1949 in Budapest - April 12, 2018 ibid) was a Hungarian jazz guitarist.

[1][2] 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 Franz Liszt Academy of Music, where he became teacher of several generations of Hungarian guitarists.

He appeared in the Petofi Hall in Budapest with Victor Bailey, Terri Lyne Carrington, György Jinda and Béla Szakcsi Lakatos, and gave a concert with Frank Zappa in front of 50,000 spectators.

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.