George Duke Album Reviews

[Review] The Jean-Luc Ponty Experience With The George Duke Trio (1969)

Jean-Luc and Duke play an electrified set at the psychedelicized Sunset Strip spot, Thee Experience.

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The low-budget seduction of a classical/jazz violinist and an ad hoc orchestra.

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The beginning of the Flo & Eddie experiment, in which the pair become the witting mouthpiece for Frank.

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Ponty was flown into the US to record this album with George Duke and Gerald Wilson, but the performances feel dialed in.

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This probably should have come with a free bar of soap and shampoo, since you’ll need a shower after listening to it.

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Frank gets pushed from a stage and spends months at home pushing the envelope of musical smallmindedness.

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Two albums in one (Solus, The Inner Source) that showcase Duke’s colossal Rhodes skills and artistic range, backed by the George Duke Trio.

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Duke adds Headhunter Ndugu to the trio and releases a spacey album of jazz fusion that invites comparison to Zappa and RTF.

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A crossover of space fusion and synth funk, featuring Frank Zappa as the mysterious Obdewl’l X.

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[Kronomyth 19.0] I am the author of all rims and damask piping.

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Between searchingness and reachingness, there is this perfect slice of dukeyness.

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In which our hero reaches for the golden ring and grabs it, becoming a funk sensation.

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There’s a leprechaun funk shun at the end of this rainbow.

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Another funk record, as the alien succumbs to the gravitational pull of the radio.

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[Kronomyth 6.0] Let Be Be Finale of Seem.

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