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Attila Cornelius Zoller (Born June 13, 1927 in Visegrád, Hungary, † January 25, 1998 in Townshend, Vermont) was a Hungarian jazz musician.

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First, Zoller learned to play the violin, double bass and flugelhorn before turning to the guitar. His live career began in Budapest’s jazz clubs after the end of the Second World War.

In 1948 he left Hungary shortly before the iron curtain was closed with the Vienna destination. After interaction with the pianist and accordionist Vera Auer (until 1954) and tours with Joe Zawinul, he came to the Federal Republic of Germany, where he first came with Dave Amram, Albert Mangelsdorff and Jutta, later with Hans Koller, Oscar Pettiford and Rudi Sehring ( Rhythm and Something More , Mod, 1956) worked.

In 1959 he moved to the United States of America, where he together with Ornette Coleman and Don Cherry die Lenox School of Jazz visited. There, Zoller’s contact with freelance jazz came about.
Zoller played in the combos of Benny Goodman, Chico Hamilton, Stan Getz and Herbie Mann before founding his own groups with Don Friedman, Dave Pike, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter and Lee Konitz. Next to it were recordings with Klaus Doldinger. Since 1965, Zoller has been increasingly devoting himself to free jazz, not without taking over other currents of the later years. A folkloric-hungarian influence always swung. In addition, Zoller made a name for themselves with film music for the films of The bread of the early years (Heinrich Böll) and from cat and mouse (Günter Grass) as well as with the jazz & poetry project Heinrich Heine: Poetry and Jazz by Joachim Ernst Berendt (with Emil Mangelsdorff, Peter Trunk and Klaus Weiss) as well as with the recitator Gert Westphal. In 1979 and 1980 he played three records with duo recordings with Jimmy Raney, Zoller’s model on the guitar. In the years between 1989 and 1998 he played more with the German vibraphonist Wolfgang Lackerschmid in the duo. The two collected sound carriers together. [first]

In 1972 he founded that Vermont Jazz Center where he gave summer courses [2] And performed with other musicians like Andrei Ryabov.

Attila Zoller developed a pickup for the electrical guitar for the brand Shadow as well as guitars in cooperation with the brands Framus and Höfner. He played different Framus guitars from around 1958 to around 1980, most recently his signature model AZ-10/67E, which was produced until the early 1970s [3] . After Zoller’s death (from 2004), Framus had again an Attila-Zoller Signature -Gitar model with the designation Framus is that in program, [4] Based on the old AZ-10 model from 1970, which was still played by Zoller itself. [5] The Höfner-AZ models were produced in 1982-1991 [6] And can be heard on late recordings by Zoller or Jimmy Raney. A total of five different AZ models from Höfner existed; Attila Zoller himself has mostly played a Höfner-AZ standard in Brown-Sunburst-Finish in his last few years [7] .

Zoller’s last appearance was on January 6, 1998. Three weeks later, he died of colon cancer. [8]

  • Down Beat Poll als Gitarrist – “Talent deserving wider recognition” , 1964 and 1973
  • Federal Film Award for Music too The bread of the early years
  • Achievement in Jazz Award the New England Foundation for the Arts , 1995 (for his merits in jazz education)
  • ‘Message to Attila’, TributeAlbum, coordinated and produced by guitarist David Becker. Compositions from Zoller are mainly interpreted by guitarists such as John Abercrombie, Gene Bertoncini, Peter Bernstein, Pat Metheny and Mike Stern.
  • 1957: Albert Mangls Department & Attila Customs Jazzsalon Dortmund (Metronome, EP)
  • 1964: Heinrich Heine: Poetry and Jazz (Philips/Universal) with Emil Mangelsdorff, Peter Trunk, Klaus Weiss and Gert Westphal
  • 1965: Come-or-like (MPS) Mit martial Solal, Hans Koller
  • 1965: The Horizon Beyond (Emarcy/Act) with Don Friedman, Barre Phillips and Daniel Humair
  • 1965: Doldinger In South America (Emarcy) with Klaus Doldinger Quartet
  • 1970: Gypsy Cry (Collectables) mit Lew Tabackin, Herbie Hancock, Reggie Workman, Victor Gaskin
  • 1979: The K & K in New York (L&R) with Koller and George Mraz
  • 1979: Common Cause (Enja) with Ron Carter and Joe Chambers
  • 1980: Jim & I. (L+R Records) mit Jimmy Raney
  • 1988: Zo-ko-on (MPS, with Lee Konitz and Albert Mangelsdorff)
  • 1992: a (Bhakti) with Wolfgang Lackerschmid
  • 1994: When It’s Time (ENJA) MIT Lee Konitz, Santi Debriano, Yoron Israel
  • 1996: Thingin (HatHut), mit Lee Konitz, Don Friedman
  • 1997: Lasting Love – Solo Guitar (Zoller Solo, exclusively own compositions)
  • 1998: Last Recordings (To enable)
  • two thousand and thirteen: Jazz Soundtracks: Original Music from the Arthouse Films of Hansjürgen Pohland 1962-1967
  • Instructions for improvisation for jazz guitar. Schott, Mainz (= EDITION SHOCKED. Band 5048).
  • Gábor Géza Simon: Guitar to death – the life and art of Attila Zoller. Budapest, 2002. Isbn 963-204-716-8
  • Gábor Géza Simon: Immensely good. Attila Zoller. His life and his art . Budapest 2003. ISBN 963-206-928-5.
  • Heinz Protzer: Attila Zoller. His life, his time, his music . Erftstadt 2009. ISBN 978-3-00-026568-6.
  • Gábor Géza Simon: Guitar Forever – Attila Zoller Discography. Budapest 2011.
  1. ↑ Attila Customs & Wolfgings Lakermidide: Live Highlights ’92 (REMASTERED) (LP) – JPC. Accessed on October 2, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Vtjazz.org: Attila Zoller, Founder ( Memento of the Originals from August 2, 2012 in Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been used automatically and not yet checked. Please check original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. @first @2 Template: Webachiv/Iabot/www.vtjazz.org
  3. ↑ Lothar Trampert: Framus & Free Jazz. Attila Zollers AZ-10. In: Power guitars. The guitar & bass Special, 2004, pp. 108–110.
  4. ↑ Franz Holtmann: Masterpiece: Framus AZ-10 Custom Shop Edition. In: Guitar & Bass, 12/2008, pp. 114–116.
  5. ↑ Framus-vintage.de 5/67 Az-10. Framus Vintage Archive, accessed April 24, 2015
  6. ↑ Gordon Giltrap/Neville Martin: The Hofner Guitar – A History. 2009, New York: Hal Leonard, S. 15
  7. ↑ Lothar Trampert: Attila Zoller. Guitar jazz, jazz guitars. In: Guitar & Bass, 04/2008, pp. 89–100.
  8. ↑ Tod , allmusic.com, accessed on September 28, 2012

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