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Tuesday, August 06, 2013

Sad news: Jazz rock keyboard legend George Duke has passed away at 67.

Wow. This is just depressing. I kind of grew up on this guy's music. He was just a fantastic musician whose work is often featured at "The Acid Jazz Channel".I thought his best work was with Frank Zappa. Ruth Underwood once said that Frank had a gift of writing the best ever music for his musicians to play. I always thought that this was George's best tune it just showcases everything he could do, which was a lot. Slow bluesy riff and then it goes into the theme. Still sounds cool after all these years. Great psychedelic solos over complicated chords and time signatures. Frank said that it took two guys to replace George in the band. I can believe that.


We'll always have his great music though.

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