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George Duke - The Best of The MPS Years (Vinyl 2LP)

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George Duke - The Best of The MPS Years (Vinyl 2LP)

George Duke - The Best of The MPS Years (Vinyl 2LP)

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The Best Of The MPS Years presents you all the classics and highlights of George Duke's time at the Black Forest label on one album! A curious happenstance in 1966 triggered the partnership between MPS head Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer and Duke. Brunner-Schwer was in San Francisco to record the Art van Damme Quintet. After finishing the recording session one evening, he and his team strolled over to a club called the Jazz Workshop. Les McCann was supposed to be playing, but this particular day was his day off. Instead, a 20 year old pianist, still involved in his studies, was performing with his quartet. The music's freshness so enthralled the German that he set up a recording session on the spot. This encounter between Duke and Brunner-Schwer in sunny California was both accidental and noteworthy. It turned out to be the jazzy prologue to future events: five years later the American began his fusion-infused sessions for the man from Germany's Black Forest. The six albums of this series still count as a fascinating and essential part of Duke's life's-work and canon of the genre.

LP1
  1. Au-Right
  2. Funny Funk
  3. That's What She Said
  4. The Opening
  5. For Love
  6. Feel
  7. Capricorn
  8. Dawn
  9. Seeing You
LP2
  1. Someday
  2. Feels So Good
  3. Love Reborn
  4. Uncle Remus
  5. Love
  6. Cora Jobege
  7. Foosh
  8. Don't Be Shy
  9. North Beach
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