Release date: 22.07.2022
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.
Au Right / Funny Funk / That's What She Said / The Opening / For
Love / Feel / Capricorn / Dawn / Seeing You / Someday / Feels So Good / Love
Reborn / Uncle Remus / Love / Cora Jobege / Foosh / Theme from the opera
"Tzina" / North Beach