George Duke Funk Tunes

You may be familiar with him through his pop tunes, or jazz tunes, or possibly through his collaborations with Cannonball Adderley, Jean-Luc Ponty or with The Mothers of Invention and Frank Zappa. Well….maybe not as familiar with the last one unless you were a follower of Zappa. It was his work with Jean-Luc Ponty that got many to know his name and music.

According to various interviews, George Duke was a straight forward classical and jazz piano player…until he met and joined The Mothers of Invention and Frank Zappa, who pushed him into a whole new perspective with music, that of pushing the boundaries of musical genres. Plus Zappa was responsible for getting Duke into playing a synthesizer, something he never considered before one appeared on top of his Fender Rhodes one   day at rehearsal…and the rest is history…

And George Duke has left a lot of music behind, like 32 plus albums worth. Here is the list of the tunes you’ll be hearing on this show from some of those 32 albums:

1 Reach For It – 4:54 – Reach For It – 1977

2 Dukey Stick – 6:10 – Don’t Let Go – 1978

3 Don’t Let Go – 3:30 – Don’t Let Go – 1978

4 I am For Real – 5:21 – Follow The Rain – 1979

5 Pluck – 4:48 – Follow The Rainbow -1979

6 Games – 3:14 – Master Of The Game – 1979

7 Guilty – 3:46 – Night After Night – 1989

8 Ain’t It Funky Now – 4:21 – Face The Music – 2002

9 Dukey Treats – 6:54 – Dukey Treats – 2008

10 Mercy – 5:39 – Dukey Treats – 2008

11 Ash Tray – 4:01 – Dream Weaver – 2013