Artist: George Duke: mp3 download Genre(s): Jazz: Funk Jazz R&B: Soul Discography: Duke Year: 2005 Tracks: 11 Face The Music Year: 2002 Tracks: 10 Is Love Enough? Year: 1997 Tracks: 14 Illusions Year: 1995 Tracks: 13 Snapshot Year: 1992 Tracks: 13 Guardian Of The Light Year: 1983 Tracks: 13 Dream On Year: 1982 Tracks: 10 Master Of The Game Year: 1979 Tracks: 9 Reach For It Year: 1977 Tracks: 11 Rendezvous Year: Tracks: 9 George Duke showed a great deal of promise early in his vocation as a jazz piano player and keyboardist, just has forsaken that shape to be a pop producer. Inspired early on by Les McCann, he worked with a trio in San Francisco during the mid-'60s. In 1969, Duke attended Jean-Luc Ponty, recording with the fiddler. After wastebin School months with Don Ellis' Orchestra, he joined Frank Zappa for a good deal of 1970. Duke worn-out 1971-1972 with Cannonball Adderley and so returned to Zappa for 1973-1975. In 1975, he worked with Sonny Rollins, co-led a radical with Billy Cobham, and and so formed a funk band (the Clarke-Duke Project) with Stanley Clarke. By the late '70s, he was whole away of malarkey, playing R&B and producing projects for pop artists. Although he has since expressed interest in returning to active playing, small of George Duke's post-1976 work on is relevant to jazz. |