Artist: George Duke
Album: The Best of the MPS Years
Genre: Jazz-Funk, Soul-Jazz, Fusion
Label: MPS Records
Released: 2022
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
- Au-Right (3:26)
- Funny Funk (5:20)
- That's What She Said (4:32)
- The Opening (3:21)
- For Love (4:42)
- Feel (5:40)
- Capricorn (5:09)
- Dawn (4:56)
- Seeing You (4:33)
- Someday (2:42)
- Feels So Good (7:00)
- Love Reborn (7:24)
- Uncle Remus (5:13)
- Love (6:08)
- Cobra Jobege (2:50)
- Foosh (3:12)
- Don't Be Shy (3:01)
- North Beach (6:19)
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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 George 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 George Duke and Hans Georg 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 George Duke’s life’s-work and canon of the genre.