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GEORGE JINDA

Jazz Rock/Fusion • Hungary


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George Jinda biography
George JINDA (1941-2001) was a Hungarian jazz drummer and percussionist from Budapest. JINDA started playing piano at an early age but later on switched to drums which would be his instrument of choice as a session musician in many jazz groups and a bands he formed like SPECIAL EFX or under the moniker GEORGE JINDA AND WORLD NEWS. Most of his output in those groups was on the side of contemporary jazz and smooth fusion with a latin vibe, but of special note is a jazz rock band like SPEED LIMIT and in his solo work the album 'Wheel Of Love' from 1975. Except for also featuring Didier BATARD of HELDON, the group that worked on the album was similar in a way to SPEED LIMIT as it featured more than a couple of musicians from the zeuhl genre, specifically keyboard player JEAN-LOUIS BUCCHI and winds player YOCHK'O SEFFER related to MAGMA and Ty BOUM of ZAO which gave the music darker eclectic edge. It still stands as one of the most unique albums of 70's fusion and it can be recommended to fans of zeuhl and classic fusion alike.

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The Wheel Of Love
1975
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1996

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 The Wheel Of Love by JINDA, GEORGE album cover Studio Album, 1975
3.05 | 2 ratings

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The Wheel Of Love
George Jinda Jazz Rock/Fusion

Review by Mellotron Storm
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3 stars George Jinda was from Hungary beginning his musical life learning to play the piano before switching over to drums. And the man had chops, playing in the jazz style. Unfortunately most of his session work was in the traditional jazz mode along with smooth jazz and latin jazz. Then as a duo he was in a band called SPECIAL EFX playing a lounge jazz brand of music. All of these sub genres have me running for the door. So I knew "Wheel Of Love", his first solo album had the potential to be lame and cringe-worthy. Even the album cover stopped me in my tracks.

But! There was also the hope that this would be more in the style of the one cool band he was involved with in his life called SPEED LIMIT, who released two albums. The first in 1974, then the final one in 1975. And that debut featured three of the musicians that George got to play on this 1975 released recording called "The Wheel Of Love". Some heavy weights too with Jeff Seffer(ZAO/MAGMA) and Didier Batard(HELDON) involved. Those two along with Jinda and keyboardist Jean-Louis Bucchi shared the writing credits on "Wheel Of Love". So a six piece here of keyboards, drums, sax/flute, guitar, bass and extra percussion.

Very much a hit and miss album much like SPEED LIMIT's second recording in my opinion. SPEED LIMIT's debut will prove to be the last album standing, the only one of the three I gave 4 stars to. It's more in the jazz/fusion style, and the most consistent of the three that Jinda is on. A lot of short tracks here as we get 11 songs worth over 35 minutes. Again comparing those three albums we have a different bass player for each of them, and all three are world class players. Of course we have Didier Batard here, Joel Dugrenot(ZAO) on SPEED LIMIT's debut, and Janick Top on that second SPEED LIMIT offering. Seffer plays more flute on here than on those SPEED LIMIT records where he is mostly playing sax. Bucchi plays a lot of synths here opposed to the electric piano on SPEED LIMIT's debut. Some different flavours with these three albums for sure.

This is probably worth the 3.5 stars alone for the talent involved, and they are involved as I mentioned earlier in the compositions, as well as playing on this record. Still, there's no way this is a 4 star release in my world.

Thanks to historian9 for the artist addition.

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