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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	121
2	Reach Out	114
3	Reach For It	92
4	BRAZILIAN LOVE AFFAIR	82
5	I Love You More	72
6	Someday	67
7	Sugar Loaf Mountain	61
8	Dukey Stick	60
9	Summer Breezin'	59
10	Sweet Baby	39
11	Capricorn	33
11	Cravo E Canela	33
13	Love Reborn	31
14	Sausalito	30
15	Feel	29

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steadmania

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

August 2011
fmeshtar

nice.

May 2011
Darkocat

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

February 2011
ropies

Reach Out is underlistened .. [1]

December 2010
nikkogibler

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/

December 2010
warisz00r

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

November 2010
Mereillejames

One of my favorite producers ever.

October 2010
reimusho

epic

October 2010
Quarantehuit

Legendary, his work is so smooth

July 2010
_bintang

glad for saw george duke's trio on JJF 2010

June 2010
viKO0

i love duke !! : )

June 2010
Buuze

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

May 2010
Mini-Eerikki

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.

May 2010
Gabriel_Opeth

awesome music

April 2010
Railboss

you can truely strech your mind with this cat

April 2010
Mike_Yorke

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 :-)

February 2010
UliQue

where the hell is "from me to you" ?

September 2009
chrisneylag

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.

June 2009
katakomba555

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

May 2009
bassslinger

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

May 2009