The Sorcerer is a live album

Live album

A live album is a recording consisting of material recorded during stage performances using remote recording techniques, commonly contrasted with a studio album...

 by Hungarian jazz guitarist Gábor Szabó

Gábor Szabó

Gábor Szabó was a Hungarian jazz guitarist, famous for mixing jazz, pop-rock and his native Hungarian music.-Biography:...

 featuring performances recorded in 1967 for the Impulse!

Impulse! Records

Impulse! Records was an American jazz record label, originally established in 1960 by producer Creed Taylor as a subsidiary of ABC-Paramount Records, based in New York City...

 label.

Reception

The Allmusic review by Douglas Payne awarded the album 4½ stars stating "The playing seems inspired, and the interplay within the group is something to behold -- even when performing lightweight tunes".

Track listing

All compositions by Gábor Szabó except as indicated

1. "The Beat Goes On
   The Beat Goes On
   "The Beat Goes On" is a Billboard Hot 100 top ten hit song written by Sonny Bono and recorded by Sonny & Cher. It was issued as a single and appeared on their 1967 album In Case You're In Love...
   
   " (Sonny Bono
   Sonny Bono
   Salvatore Phillip "Sonny" Bono was an American recording artist, record producer, actor, and politician whose career spanned over three decades.-Early life:...
   
   ) - 4:52
2. "Little Boat (O Barquinho)" (Ronaldo Bôscoli
   Ronaldo Bôscoli
   Ronaldo Fernando Esquerdo Bôscoli, usually known as Ronaldo Bôscoli, or just Bôscoli was a Brazilian composer, songwriter, record producer and journalist....
   
   , Roberto Menescal
   Roberto Menescal
   Roberto Menescal is a Brazilian jazz guitarist important to the founding of bossa nova. In many of his songs there are references to the sea. He is also known for work with Carlos Lyra. Menescal has performed in a variety of Latin music mediums, including Brazilian pop, Música Popular Brasileira,...
   
   ) - 4:23
3. "Lou-Ise" (Jimmy Stewart) - 4:17
4. "What Is This Thing Called Love?
   What Is This Thing Called Love?
   "What Is This Thing Called Love?"is a 1929 popular song written by Cole Porter, for the musical Wake Up and Dream. It was first performed by Elsie Carlisle in March 1929. The song has become a popular jazz standard and one of Porter's most often played compositions.Wake Up and Dream ran for 263...
   
   " (Cole Porter
   Cole Porter
   Cole Albert Porter was an American composer and songwriter. Born to a wealthy family in Indiana, he defied the wishes of his domineering grandfather and took up music as a profession. Classically trained, he was drawn towards musical theatre...
   
   ) - 5:18
5. "Space" - 6:40
6. "Stronger Than Us" (Francis Lai
   Francis Lai
   Francis Lai is a French accordionist, and composer noted for his film scores.While in his twenties, Francis Lai left home and went to Paris where he became part of the lively Montmartre music scene...
   
   , Pierre Barough) - 4:13
7. "Mizrab" - 6:58
8. "Comin' Back" (Clyde Otis
   Clyde Otis
   Clyde Otis, born in Prentiss, Mississippi, , was an American songwriter and producer best known for his collaboration with singer Brook Benton, and for being one of the first African American A&R executive for a major label.According to the music licensing organization Broadcast Music Inc., Otis is...
   
   , Szabó) 1:56
9. "Los Matadoros" - 12:09 Bonus track on CD reissue
10. "People" (Bob Merrill
    Bob Merrill
    Bob Merrill was an American songwriter, theatrical composer, lyricist, and screenwriter.Merrill was born Henry Merrill Levan in Atlantic City, New Jersey and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Following a stint with the Army during World War II, he moved to Hollywood, where he worked as a...
    
    , Jule Styne
    Jule Styne
    Jule Styne was a British-born American songwriter especially famous for a series of Broadway musicals, which included several very well known and frequently revived shows.-Early life:...
    
    ) - 5:18 Bonus track on CD reissue
11. "Corcovado" (Antonio Carlos Jobim
    Antônio Carlos Jobim
    Antônio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim , also known as Tom Jobim , was a Brazilian songwriter, composer, arranger, singer, and pianist/guitarist. He was a primary force behind the creation of the bossa nova style, and his songs have been performed by many singers and instrumentalists within...
    
    ) - 3:22 Bonus track on CD reissue
    • Recorded at The Jazz Workshop in Boston, Massachusetts on April 14 & 15, 1967

Personnel

• Gábor Szabó
  Gábor Szabó
  Gábor Szabó was a Hungarian jazz guitarist, famous for mixing jazz, pop-rock and his native Hungarian music.-Biography:...
  
   - guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  
• Jimmy Stewart - guitar
• Lajos "Louis" Kabok - bass
  Double bass
  The double bass, also called the string bass, upright bass, standup bass or contrabass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, with strings usually tuned to E1, A1, D2 and G2...
  
  
• Marty Morell
  Marty Morell
  Marty Morell is a drummer, percussionist, vibraphonist and producer who played with the Bill Evans Trio for seven years - longer than any other drummer. Morell attended the Manhattan School of Music and studied mallets with Morris Goldberg, and tympani with Saul Goodman at the Juilliard School of...
  
   – drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
  
  
• Hal Gordon - percussion