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Born 12th Jan 1946, San Rafael, California.
George Duke is a pianist and synthesizer pioneer, who also majored in the trombone. Early influences: Les McCann and cousin Charles Burrell. First gig was with the house band at the Half Note club and with vocal band Third Wave in 1968, from there he backed such musicians as Dizzy Gillespie, Kenny Dorham and Don Ellis, playing session musician on Jean-Luc Pontys Pacific Jazz Albums.1970 was a milestone for Duke playing on The Mothers of Invention album 200 Motels.

He then went on to join Cannonball Adderleys Quintet recording at least six albums with Cannonball.Further collaberations with Zappa and Billy Cobham came his first venture into the charts with “Reach for It” and “Dukey Stick”.Reverting to his jazz roots his “Brazilian Love Affair” album even impressed his jazz critics after many accused him of selling out to pop.

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1	Shine On	134
2	Reach Out	119
3	Reach For It	102
4	Someday	67
4	Summer Breezin'	67
6	Dukey Stick	65
7	Sugar Loaf Mountain	61
8	I Love You More	55
9	BRAZILIAN LOVE AFFAIR	52
10	Sweet Baby	45
11	Sausalito	40
12	Feel	37
13	Capricorn	36
14	Brazilian Sugar	35
15	Love Reborn	32

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steadmania wrote:
August 2011

thundercat does a great cover of george's for love i come on his new album 'golden age of the apocalypse' - you can stream the whole thing here http://hypem.com/#!/artist/Thundercat

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fmeshtar wrote:
May 2011

nice.

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Darkocat wrote:
February 2011

some of the best synth-heavy fusion i've ever heard. THOSE BENDS.

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ropies wrote:
December 2010

Reach Out is underlistened .. [1]

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nikkogibler wrote:
December 2010

George Duke is so dope! He's one of the great ones who got me playing the piano. Thank you! This is me playing last night... Short keyboard solo vid...Enjoy! http://gibler.wordpress.com/2010/12/17/nikkogibler-com-keyboard-solo-on-nord-lead-3-north-hills-ca-awesome/

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warisz00r wrote:
November 2010

George Duke was my first foray into jazz... I am glad.

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Mereillejames wrote:
October 2010

One of my favorite producers ever.

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reimusho wrote:
October 2010

epic

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Quarantehuit wrote:
July 2010

Legendary, his work is so smooth

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_bintang wrote:
June 2010

glad for saw george duke's trio on JJF 2010

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viKO0 wrote:
June 2010

i love duke !! : )

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Buuze wrote:
May 2010

haha same here Mini-Eerikki, George Duke @ April Jazz

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Mini-Eerikki wrote:
May 2010

I'm so annoyed now. George is playing 200 meters from our house right now, but I can't get it because it's only for majors. Darn it.

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Gabriel_Opeth wrote:
April 2010

awesome music

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Railboss wrote:
April 2010

you can truely strech your mind with this cat

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Mike_Yorke wrote:
February 2010

Hi George, great stuff as always, Fan since the mid 70's ! hope you get a chance to listen to my originals , Peace, cheers and best wishes from the UK :-)

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UliQue wrote:
September 2009

where the hell is "from me to you" ?

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chrisneylag wrote:
June 2009

degradinglight - George Duke Solo Flight that was my favorite as well and am so disappointed right now because i couldn't find it. i don't understand the removing it. i was going to try to track down the original to buy sometime. now it will be more difficult to figure where that came from.

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katakomba555 wrote:
May 2009

www.jackyjazz.blogspot.com GEORGE DUKE RAR FREE,MORE JAZZ RAR DOWNLOAD...

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bassslinger wrote:
May 2009

gonna take you to da bridge and drop you into some funk!

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