News & Updates — Attila Zoller

An underrated jazz guitarist (and a custom instrument-builder), Attila Zoller was from Hungary. He started playing jazz in Budapest after WW2. After picking up his chops he went to Austria in '48 and then Germany in '54, where he played with notables Jutta Hipp and Albert Mangelsdorff. He backed several visiting American jazz musicians and in '59 won a scholarship to the Lenox School of Jazz in Western Massachusetts. While at Lenox he was roommates with iconoclasts Ornette Coleman and Don Cherry. He worked with Benny Goodman, Herbie Mann and Chico Hamilton, as well as cutting music for films before...