Biography

George Duke showed a great deal of promise early in his career as a jazz pianist and keyboardist, later transforming himself into a pop producer. During the '60s and early '70s, he worked with a trio in San Francisco, accompanied and recorded with Jean-Luc Ponty, joined the Don Ellis Orchestra, and spent 1971-1972 with Cannonball Adderley, but his most popular association was with Frank Zappa, for much of 1970 and all of 1973-1975. In 1975, he worked with Sonny Rollins, co-led a group with Billy Cobham, and then formed a funk band (the Clarke-Duke Project) with Stanley Clarke. ~ Scott Yanow

Top Tracks

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• Ain't It Funky Now

• Back In The Day

• Brazilian Love Affair

• Capricorn

• Carry On

• Chariot

• Chillin'

• Da Somba

• Déjà Vu

• Diamonds

• Dream On

• Dukey Stick

• Every Little Step I Take

• Everyday Hero

• Fame

• Feel

• Fill The Need

• From Dusk To Dawn

• Geneva

• Hot Fire

• I Love You More

• I Want You For Myself

• I Will Always Be Your Friend

• Illusions

• Images Of Us

• In A Mellow Tone

• Is Love Enough?

• It's Summertime

• Lemme At It

• Listen Baby

• Love Can Be So Cold

• My Piano

• Never Be Another

• Never Will I Marry

• No Rhyme, No Reason

• Old Slippers

• Only You Understand

• Psychocomatic Dung

• Reach For It

• Ripple In Time [for Miles]

• Rokkinrowl, I Don't Know

• Searchin' My Mind

• Snapshot

• So I'll Pretend

• Someday

• Son Of Reach For It

• Speak Low

• Sweet Baby

• Sweet Dreams

• The Touch

• The Times We've Known

• Together As One

• Up On It

• Wake Up, Smell The Coffee

• What Goes Around Comes Around

• You And Me

• You Touch My Brain

Discography

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• Déjà Vu

  Heads Up Records / Telarc Jazz

  2010

• Dukey Treats

  Telarc Distribution / Heads Up Records

  2008

• Duke

  Bizarre Planet Entertainment

  2005

• Face the Music

  Bizarre Planet Entertainment / BPM Music

  2002

• Cool

  Warner Bros.

  2000

• After Hours

  Warner Bros.

  1998

• Is Love Enough?

  Warner Bros.

  1997

• Illusions

  Warner Bros.

  1995

• Muir Woods Suite

  Warner Bros.

  1993

• Rendezvous

  Epic

  1984

• Guardian of the Light

  Sony Music Distribution

  1983

• Master of the Game

  Sony Music Distribution

  1979

• Follow the Rainbow

  Epic

  1979

• Pacific Jazz

  Ua Records

  1978

• From Me to You

  Epic

  1977

• The 1976 Solo Keyboard Album

  Wounded Bird Records

  1976

• Liberated Fantasies

  Universal Distribution / Universal S.A.

  1976

• The Aura Will Prevail

  Universal Classics & Jazz / Universal Distribution

  1975

• Feel

  Verve

  1974

• Faces in Reflection

  Promising/MPS

  1974

• Live in L.A.

  Sunset Records

  1971

• Presented by the Jazz Workshop of San Francisco

  Saba Entertainment

  1966